Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Out of whose womb came the ice?.... The parent of the rain and dew is the parent of the ice also, and he only; it is therefore called "his ice", his child, his offspring, Ps 147:17. Here the Lord is represented as a mother, and so he is by Orpheus {b} called "metropator", or "mother-father";
and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? this is of God, and by his breath; see Job 37:10.
{b} Apud Clement. Stromat. l. 5. p. 608.
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