Note 455 — CCCXV.—To a Christian Friend, upon the death of his Wife.

The allusion is to Jer. vi. 29, and in that passage "daylight" is a variation from our common version. Could Rutherford have been reading Jeremiah in the Septuagint Greek version? There the word is φυσητὴρ, "blowpipe," or "bellows;" but we might suppose that his eye mistook the word for φωστὴρφωστὴρ, "lightgiver," "window-light." The Scotch phrase, "to burn daylight," means to waste time and opportunity.