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“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
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Verse 5. With them. The less and greater fishes, ( Menochius.) or rather the giants and others who were buried in the waters of the deluge, and are confined in the dungeons of hell. The poets speak in the same manner.
“Hic genus antiquum terræ, Titania pubes,
Fulmine dejecti fundo voluntur in imo.
Aliis sub gurgite vasto,
Infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni.” Æn. vi.
—Homer (Iliad viii.) and Hesiod (Theog.) place the giants at the extremity of the earth, in the utmost darkness. See also Proverbs 9:18. Isaiah 14:9. Calmet.
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