Blessed are you that behold the depths, and sit upon the cherubims: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
kingdom: It is the empire of God over all created things. Of this it is said in Ps. 145:13 “Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and you dominion endures throughout all ages.” And it is God’s mystical kingdom: by it, through faith and grace, He reigns in the hearts of the Faithful. It is such a kingdom as this, that the devil should cease to reign in the world, and that sin should no longer reign in our mortal bodies, that S. Ambrose, S. Jerome, and Euthymius think is here meant.
To this Basil answers Hom. iii in Hexaem. that these words do not mean that these things like waters are rational creatures, but that "the thoughtful contemplation of them by those who understand fulfils the glory of the Creator." (St. Thomas Aquinas) Also, the mention of all these created things such as rivers, mountains, angels, etc. were to contruct an idea that it is God as the Creator, whereas those created things were often divinized.
