Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The stm>dlal may have been of a very sftnple form, such as a pillar at the head of a stairs, placed in such a way as to throw the shadow according to the apparent motion of the sun. The instantaneous change of so many lines to an opposite direction could not take place naturally. The corresponding change In the solar movement, or rather the turning back of the earth on her axis, was a still greater display of Divine power, which, however, presented no difficulty to the Creator and Ruler of all things. Some conceive the change on the dial to have taken place by the Divine act without any disturbance of the general order.

God was the author of his affliction, as subsequently of his deliverance. ?. " He hath both spoken unto me, and Uimself hath done it" God had fulfilled His promise.