The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Ver. 6. The sun shall not smite thee by day] So choice and chary is God of his children, that he will have no creature to hurt them (parching heat by day or pinching cold by night), but both north and south must blow good to them, Song of Solomon 4:16, and all creatures must cater for them, Hosea 2:21,22, yet ever with exception of the cross, if need be, 1 Peter 1:6. But let the pope be the sun and the emperor the moon (as the canonists called them), yet the sun shall not smite the Church by day nor the moon by night. Luther was at the same time excommunicated by the pope and proscribed by the emperor; yet died he in his bed.