Where wast thou when the morning stars sang together?—Job, xxxviii. 4, 7.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.—Psalm cxlvii. 4.
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.—Matthew, ii. 1, 2.
Confusion heard His voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till, at His second bidding, darkness fled,
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung:
Swift to their several quarters hasted then
The cumbrous elements, Earth, Flood, Air, Fire;