the East wind] Is a very strong and drying wind; by that the waters of the red Sea were divided, Exodus 14:21. and by that tempests are raised, Job 27:21. Ezekiel 27:26. and ships ruined, Psalms 48:7. fruits dryed up or blasted, Ezekiel 19:12. and by that together with the heat of the Sunne was Jonah made faint, Jon. 4. 8. And this wind is so much the worse for Egypt, as it cometh with more force and vehemence from the desert of Arabia. his spirit was troubled] (Daniel 2. vers. 1. 3.) How weake is the spirit of kings! how strong and powerfull is the King of kings, who in their sleep can make trouble ready for them against they be awake, and can make waking misery of a representation in a dreame! and more then that, even in dreames he can terrifie them, and make their time of repose, and rest, a time of tribulation: See Chap. 40. 6. &Matthew 27:19. So it was with Job, (and it may be as ill with any whosoever) When I say my bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ase my complaint, then (saith he) thou scarest me with dreames, and terrifiest me through visions, Job 7:17. There is good cause then to close up the day with supplication to God, that the words of Solomon may be made good unto us, When thou lyest downe thou shalt not be afraid, yea thou shalt lye downe and thy sleepe shall be sweet, Proverbs 3:24. and when day returnes (after a comfortable and quiet night) to make that mercy a part of our mornings praise, and thankesgiving to God, by whose onely favour we have enjoyed it. Magicians] They are called also Wisemen, Exodus 7:11. Soothsayers, Daniel 5:7. Sorcerrs, Astrologers, Daniel 2:2. that is, such as professed a curious art of telling secrets, and of foretelling future things, which they did by observation of the Starres, and other superstitious wayes, wherein concurred the suggestion of Satan, either revealing the secret sought after, or craftily concealing his ignorance by giving answer in ambiguous, and doubtfull termes; yet so often did he discover secret matters by such instruments, that it was believed by the greatest kings, they could tell almost any thing: as when Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed, and forgotten his dreame, he called the Magicians, Sorcerers, and Astrologers, and Chaldeans, who were much exercised in such curious arts, and threatned them, that if they would not reveale his Dreame, both what it was, and what it meant, hee would cut them in pieces, and make their houses become a dunghill, Daniel 2. vers. 2. 5. And though they would not take upon them to tell what was his dreame, they undertooke if he would tell it to interpret it, vers. 7. a manifest evidence of the strong illusions of Satan, whence Atheists may be convicted: for if there be a devill, and devillish divination, there must needs be a God, and Divine revelation; and happy is the world by the coming of Christ, as in many other respects, so in this for one, that the Devil and his Chaplaines have not had that power to deceive, and mislead the world, as they had before his incarnation. none that could interpret] The wisest of the world understand not Gods secrets; but to his servants they are revealed: See Genesis 18:17. Psalms 25:14. The Magicians at this time seeme to be astonished, or stupified, that they had nothing to say by way of probable conjecture, though the dreames afforded them ground, and scope enough for such a purpose; surely this silence of theirs was of God, as was Josephs speech, according to that of the Prophet Isaiah, Surely the Princes of Zion are fooles, the counsel of the wise counsellours of Pharaoh is become brutish, Isaiah 19:11.