Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
Ver. 10. Enter into the rock, and hide thee,] q.d., Do if thou canst; go where thou thinkest thou mayest be most secret and secure; but God's hand will surely find thee and ferret thee out, as it did the five kings of Canaan, hid in the cave of Makkedah, Jos 10:16-17 and as it did the wretched Jews, who were by the Romans pulled out of their privies and other lurking holes to the slaughter, at the last destruction of Jerusalem. Hoc autem perpetuo invenies apud peccatores, saith Oecolampadius here. This is ever usual with sinful persons, to desire to flee from God, but he meeteth them at every turn, as he did Adam, Cain, Jonah, &c. The safest way is to flee from God's anger to God's grace. Bloodletting is a cure of bleeding, and a burn a cure against a burn; and running to God is the way to escape him, as to close and get in with him that would strike you, doth avoid the blow. a
For fear of the Lord, and for the glory.] Heb., From before the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty; so the Chaldean and Roman for cesare b called. See 2 Thessalonians 1:10, which seemeth to be taken from this text.
a Dr Rain.
b A mnemonic term for the first mood of the second figure of syllogisms, in which the major premiss and the conclusion are universal negatives, and the minor a universal affirmative.