For he spake, and it was [done],.... Or "it was" , it came into being by a word speaking, almighty power going along with it; see Ge 1:3;he commanded, and it stood fast; every created thing continued in its being; not only all things were produced into being by his all commanding word and power, "nutu Jovis", as Maximus Tyrius speaks ; but by the same all things are upheld and consist, Heb 1:3 Col 1:17.
The poet uses the same word of God in the creation of things; and is the phrase in Ge 1:3 admired by Longinus : or this may refer to the implantation of the grace of fear in the hearts of his people; for as he speaks life into them in regeneration, commands light to shine in their dark heart, and says to them, when in their blood, Live; so by the mighty power of his word he commands the fear of him in them, and it continues.
yhyw "et fuit", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Gejerus; so Ainsworth. Dissert. 25. "Jussit et extendi campos", &c. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. Fab. 1. v. 43.