Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the water skins of heaven,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Sleep. The ancients have celebrated this harmony. (Cic. Somn. Scip.)
Septuagint, "Who numbereth the clouds in wisdom, or hath bent the sky down to the earth? "Protestants, "or who can stay the bottles of heaven? "(Haydock)
Canst thou cause it to rain, or to be fair? (Calmet) or make the celestial bodies (Haydock) rest from motion? (Worthington)
But because He withdraws their words, when He presents Himself to us in outward form, He immediately subjoined;
And who will make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
17. For in this life the Lord has spoken to our weakness, not by the outward manifestation of His majesty, but by the voice of His preachers; in order that the carnal tongue might strike those hearts which are still carnal, and that they might the more readily receive unusual things, the more they heard them by the sound of an accustomed voice. But after that the flesh is resolved into dust by death, and the dust is animated by the resurrection, then we seek not to hear words from God, because we now behold in outward appearance that One Word of God, Which fills all things. Which sounds to us still louder, the more it penetrates our minds by the power of inward illumination. For when those words are taken away, which begin, and end, the very image of the inward vision becomes to us a kind of sound of eternal preaching. Whenc...
