Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The sky is red and lowering - The signs of fair and foul weather were observed in a similar manner among the Romans, and indeed among most other people. Many treatises have been written on the subject: thus a poet: -
Caeruleus pluviam denunciant, Igneus euros
Sin Maculae incipient Rutilo immiscerier Igni,
Omnia tunc pariter Vento Nimbisque videbis
Fervere Virg. Geor. i. l. 453
"If fiery red his glowing globe descends,
High winds and furious tempests he portends:
But if his cheeks are swoll' n with livid blue,
He bodes wet weather, by his watery hue
If dusky spots are varied on his brow,
And streak' d with red a troubled color show,
That sullen mixture shall at once declare,
Wind, rain, and storms, and elemental war
Dryden.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Matthew 16:3:
Mark 8:12
Luke 12:1
Luke 12:54
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