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The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
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Verse 11. Heaven. The mountains are so styled by Pindar; and the poets represent them supporting the heavens. Totum ferre potest humeris minitantibus orbem. Petron.—Yet others understand that power which keeps all things together, ( Calmet.) or the angels, to whose rule the ancients attributed the celestial bodies. Saint Gregory Ven. Bede, and so forth
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