Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Stars: and of course, that his Providence regardeth not human affairs. (Calmet)
When an infidel observed, "I think the gods are too great to want my adoration "Socrates well replied, "The greater they appear to thee, the more oughtest thou to treat them with respect and honour. "(Xenophon, Memor.)
12. There are very many so dull that they cannot dread aught, saving what they see in a bodily form. Whence it is brought to pass that they do not fear God, in that they cannot see Him. But heretics because they think themselves wise utter words of insult against Catholics, and imagine that He is not feared by them, because they are unable to see Him in a bodily shape, so that as it were from deadness of perception they think that their Maker, because He is higher than heaven and exalted above the tops of the stars, is not able to see from a distance, and that because between ourselves and the seat of heaven the regions of the air are interposed, He, ‘as it were buried in a cloud passes judgment out of the darkness,’ and intent upon things above, the less considers those below, and whilst He holds together the binges of heaven by encircling them, doth not see into the interior parts. But who that was out of his right mind even, could suspect such things of God. Who indeed, whereas...
