When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Ver. 7. When the morning stars sang together] There is but one morning star properly so called, viz. Phosphorus, Lucifer, or Venus, the sun's forerunner. But for their brightness, they are all called here stars of the morning, and said to sing together, as birds use to do at break of day; so did these in the morning of the creation, when first those heavenly torches began to shine, and joyfully to dance, as it were, in number and measure. This they do still in their kind, Psalms 19:1, beckoning also, as it were, to us to do the like, Psalms 145:3 .
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?] i.e. All the angels, as Job 1:6, meant also by those morning stars, as Piscator and others will have it. These being created, together with the highest heavens, on the first day (as it is probable, like as Christ's soul was created in and with his body in the Virgin's womb the same moment), were present at a great part of the creation, if not at all; and were rapt with admiration at the great wisdom and power of their Creator, singing, "Holy, holy, holy," &c. Shall the stars sing, the angels shout, and shall we be so dull? This was all they did at the creation. Note this against those who held that God made the superior creatures himself, but the inferior by his angels. A great hand they have, as God's instruments, in governing the world, Ezekiel 1:5,7, &c., whence also they are called watchmen and keepers, Daniel 4:13, but not any had they in making the world; for in that work God was alone, and by himself, Isaiah 44:24 .