_Life. Septuagint also seem to understand this of God. (Calmet) ---
Job does not blame his friends for undertaking to approve the ways of
Providence, but for condemning himself (St. Chrysostom) rashly,
(Haydock) and, with an air of haughtiness, endeavouring to restrain
him from pleading his cause be... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXVI.
_ With them. The less and greater fishes, (Menochius) or rather the
giants and others who were buried in the waters of the deluge, and are
confined in the dungeons of hell. The poets speak in the same manner.
" Hic genus antiquum terræ, Titania pubes,_
Fulmine dejecti fundo voluntur... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hell. The grave. --- Destruction. Hebrew abaddon. (Haydock) --- St.
John (Apocalypse ix. 11.) styles the bottomless abyss; (Calmet) or its
angel, (Haydock) Abaddon, or Apollyon. It may here be called
destruction, (Calmet) as all its victims are lost for ever to every
thing that is good. The obscuri... [ Continue Reading ]
_North pole, which alone was visible in Idumea, and continued unmoved,
while all the stars performed their revolutions. (Calmet) --- Nothing.
Terra, pilæ similis, nullo fulcimine nixa. (Ovid, Fast, vi.) (Calmet)
--- All tends to the centre, (Menochius) by the laws of attraction.
(Newton, &c.) (Haydo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Clouds, as in a vessel or garment, Proverbs xxx. 4._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Over it. The firmament, with all its beauty, is but like a cloud, to
conceal from our feeble eyes the splendor of God's throne._... [ Continue Reading ]
_End. Till the end of the world, the ocean will respect these limits.
(Haydock) --- The ancients looked upon it as a continual miracle that
the world was not deluged, as the waters are higher than the earth,
Jeremias v. 22., and Amos v. 8. (St. Basil and St. Ambrose, Hexem.)
(Cicero, Nat. ii.) --- P... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heaven. The mountains are so styled by Pindar; and the poets
represent them supporting the heavens. Totum ferre potest humeris
minitantibus orbem. (Petronius) --- Yet others understand that power
which keeps all things together, (Calmet) or the angels, to whose rule
the ancients attributed the cele... [ Continue Reading ]
_Together, at the beginning, Genesis i. 9. Hebrew, "By his strength he
has divided the sea; and by his wisdom he has pierced the proud, or
Egypt." Rahab, (Haydock) or Rachab, is often put for Egypt; (Psalm
lxxxviii. 11.) and all would naturally have concluded that the fall of
Pharao was pointed at,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heavens, with stars, &c., Psalm xxxii. 6., and Wisdom i. 7. God also
sends winds to disperse the clouds, that the heavens may appear.
(Calmet) --- Artful, ( obstetricante) "being the midwife." The least
things are ruled by Providence. (Worthington) --- Serpent; a
constellation, lightning, the devil... [ Continue Reading ]
_Drop. This comparison is often applied to speech, Deuteronomy xxxii.
2., and Isaias lv. 10. If the little that we know of God's works give
us such an exalted idea of his greatness, what should we think if we
could fully comprehend his mysteries? (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]