Nilus of Ancyra→Gaudentius (correspondent of Nilus of Ancyra)|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Gaudentius the Silentiary. [a silentiarius was a court usher who maintained silence in the imperial palace]
"Gathering together," it says, "the waters of the sea as in a wineskin." [Psalm 32:7, Septuagint] That is to say, just as into a wineskin, so within the boundaries that have been set God gathers together the sea, and holds back the waters, not permitting them to pass beyond the feeblest sand and to cover the face of all the earth. Therefore, wishing to make this very thing clear, the holy Prophet adds, saying, "Laying up the deeps in storehouses"; that is, confining within the vessels and receptacles waters beyond all reckoning.
To Gaudentius the Silentiary. [a silentiarius was a court usher who maintained silence in the imperial palace]
"Gathering together," it says, "the waters of the sea as in a wineskin." [Psalm 32:7, Septuagint] That is to say, just as into a wineskin, so within the boundaries that have been set God gathers together the sea, and holds back the waters, not permitting them to pass beyond the feeblest sand and to cover the face of all the earth. Therefore, wishing to make this very thing clear, the holy Prophet adds, saying, "Laying up the deeps in storehouses"; that is, confining within the vessels and receptacles waters beyond all reckoning.
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