Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Plastered. Hebrew, "wall, made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. "(Protestants) (Haydock)
But Septuagint, Syriac, seem more literal, (Calmet) "on a wall of adamant, and a diamond in his hand. "Hebrew anac, (Haydock) whence a diamond was called anactites, (Orpheus) or anachites. (Pliny, xxxvii. 4.)
Saturn had a scythe of adamant, and walls of this kind were deemed impervious even to the inhabitants of heaven. Thus Virgil describes the gates of hell: Porta adversa ingens solidoque adamante columnæ, Vis ut nulla virum non ipsi exscind ere ferro Coelicolæ valeant.
-- (Æneid vi.)
God appearing on such a wall, intimated that the separation between him and his people was complete. (Calmet)
Hic murus aheneus esto. (Horace, i. ep. 1.)
