Job 38:6
Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super quo bases illius solidatæ sunt ? aut quis demisit lapidem angularem ejus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ τίνος οἱ κρίκοι αὐτῆς πεπήγασιν; τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ βαλὼν λίθον γωνιαῖον ἐπ᾽ αὐτῆς;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל מָ֭ה אֲדָנֶ֣יהָ הָטְבָּ֑עוּ א֥וֹ מִֽי יָ֝רָ֗ה אֶ֣בֶן פִּנָּתָֽהּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Basil The Hexæmeron, In the Beginning God made the Heaven and the Earth
9. Do you suppose that a heavier body prevents the earth from falling into the abyss? Then you must consider that this support needs itself a support to prevent it from falling. Can we imagine one? Our reason again demands yet another support, and thus we shall fall into the infinite, always imagining a base for the base which we have already found. And the further we advance in this reasoning the greater force we are obliged to give to this base, so that it may be able to support all the mass weighing upon it. Put then a limit to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, “Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?” If ever you hear in the Psalms, “I bear up the pillars of it;” see in these pillars the power which sustains it. …
St Ambrose Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter V. Certain passages from Scripture, urged against the Omnipotence of Christ, are resolved; the writer is also at especial pains to show that Christ not seldom spoke in accordance with the affections of human nature
40. Aye, let some one show what there is that the Son of God cannot do. Who was His helper, when He made the heavens, Who, when He laid the foundations of the world? Had He any need of a helper to set men free, Who needed none in constituting angels and principalities?