Anf-01 ix.vi.iv Pg 3
Ps. cii. 25–28. The cause of the difference in the numbering of the Psalms is that the Septuagint embraces in one psalm—the ninth—the two which form the ninth and tenth in the Hebrew text.
pointing out plainly what things they are that pass away, and who it is that doth endure for ever—God, together with His servants. And in like manner Esaias says: “Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heaven has been set together as smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they who dwell therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not pass away.”3832 3832
Anf-03 v.v.xlv Pg 7
Ps. cii. 25.
wherewith “He hath meted out the heaven, and the earth with a span.”6598 6598
Anf-03 v.v.xxxiv Pg 8
Ps. cii. 25, 26.
Now to be changed is to fall from that primitive state which they lose whilst undergoing the change. “And the stars too shall fall from heaven, even as a fig-tree casteth her green figs6495 6495 Acerba sua “grossos suos” (Rigalt.). So our marginal reading.
when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”6496 6496
Anf-03 v.v.xxxiv Pg 8
Ps. cii. 25, 26.
Now to be changed is to fall from that primitive state which they lose whilst undergoing the change. “And the stars too shall fall from heaven, even as a fig-tree casteth her green figs6495 6495 Acerba sua “grossos suos” (Rigalt.). So our marginal reading.
when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”6496 6496
Anf-01 ix.iii.xxxi Pg 3
Isa. xl. 12; 22.
of the earth, as it were, in His hand, in whose sight its inhabitants are counted as grasshoppers, and who is the Creator and Lord of all spiritual substance, is of an animal nature,—they do beyond doubt and verily betray their own madness; and, as if truly struck with thunder, even more than those giants who are spoken of in [heathen] fables, they lift up their opinions against God, inflated by a vain presumption and unstable glory,—men for whose purgation all the hellebore3247 3247 Irenæus was evidently familiar with Horace; comp. Ars. Poet., 300.
on earth would not suffice, so that they should get rid of their intense folly.
