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Psalms 104:8

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
8. "The mountains ascend, and the plains go down, into the place which Thou hast rounded for them" (ver. 8). He is still speaking of waters. Let us not here understand mountains as of earth; nor plains, as of earth: but waves so great that they may be compared to mountains. The sea did sometime toss, and its waves were as mountains, which could cover those mountains the Apostles. But how long do the mountains ascend and the plains go down? They raged, and they are appeased. When they raged they were mountains: now they are appeased they are become plains: for He hath founded a place for them. There is a certain channel, as it were a deep place, into which all those lately raging hearts of mortals have retired. ...They were mountains formerly, now they are plains: yet, my brethren, even a dead calm is sea. For wherefore are they not now violent? wherefore do they not rage? Wherefore do they not try, if they cannot overthrow our earth, at least to cover it? Wherefore not?

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
The. Descend. This should be within a parenthesis, (Berthier) as the sequel speaks of the waters. (Haydock) Earth. This seemed miraculous to those who supposed that the earth was flat. (St. Ambrose; Hex. iii. 22.) (Job vii. 12., and Amos v. 8.) (Calmet) Providence points out the place for every thing. (Haydock) Jussit et extendi campos (Ovid, Met. i.) God derogated from this law, which he had appointed for the waters, when he brought them again to overwhelm the guilty earth. (Haydock)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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