“I am the Lord,” he says, “who have fixed this order of things which still remains:” I cut or divide the sea, he says, that is, I stir it up with tempests, and make a noise, or roar, do its waves.” They were, therefore, satisfied to state things which even children could comprehend, even that the sun made its circuit daily round the world, that the moon did the same, and that the stars in their turns followed so that the moon holds the first place in the night among the stars, and that the sun rules during the day. Had they philosophized, as astrologers do, and spoken of the monthly course of the moon, and of the annual course of the sun, they could not have been understood by the common people.
He says in the person of God, “I am he who created the sun, the moon, and the stars the regular order of things in creation still continues, for the sun performs its course, and so does the moon.” He speaks, indeed, of their diurnal course, for we know that the Prophets spoke popularly, and according to the common notions. This is then the reason why the Prophet dwells at large on proving the same thing.
FLUCTUS HOSTING TRIAL
It was not then an easy matter to raise, as it were, from the lowest depths a miserable people, and to comfort them so that they might overcome their dreadful trial for the disorder of the Church was such, that had it been raised a hundred times from the dead, it might again be a hundred times crushed into death, for there still remained for it most grievous evils in future. He confirms the promises which we have been considering for it was difficult to believe that the people would not only recover what they had lost, but also be made much more happy for the Church was then wholly in a desponding state.
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