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Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
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Verse 14. Doth. Hebrew “seeth not.” Septuagint “is not seen.”—Poles, on which the whole machine seems to turn. Calmet.—“Hipparchus intimated that there would be a time when the hinges, or poles of heaven, would be moved out of their places.” Colum. i. 1. Hebrew and Septuagint (according to Origen’s edition, verse 13 to 16) “he walketh about in the circuit of heaven.” Bible.
Immortali ævo summâ cum pace fruatur
Semota a nostris rebus, sejunctaque longè. Lucret.
This was the error of the Egyptians, (Arist. Mun. 84.) which Eliphaz unjustly lays to the charge of Job, as heretics often impute condemned tenets to Catholics. Worthington.
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