even darknesse that may he felt] The words are figurative, importing extraordinary black darknesse, as rivers of teares, Psal. 119. 5: 136. extraordinary sorrow: yet God might so thicken the aire, that they might take notice of it, not onely by the eye, but by the hand, when they could rather feele, then see what was next unto them: so that (for three dayes space) they stirred not from their places: This darknesse might be caused by a withdrawment of the light of the celestiall bodies, or by drawing a thicke curtaine of very blacke clouds betwixt mens eyes and them; or by thicke foggy vapours, which were so grosse that (like tangible bodies) they might in a manner be felt: such hyperbolicall expressions are usuall not only in humane authors, but also in the holy Scriptures. See Deuteronomy 1:28.