XVII. Abyssus per solam Dei potestatem sustentatur.
XVII. Abyssus per solam Dei potestatem sustentatur.
And just as there exists a workshop of the highest craftsman, where the tools of that craftsman are found; because just as in a workshop, both heated and unheated, there is a mass of any kind of material, and just as a craftsman works in it, pouring out and shaping his work according to his will, so too the abyss exists as a workshop of the Creator of the world, preserving those things from which various creatures arise, sustaining them with water and earth, the material of diverse creatures, and it is not carried by any other creature, except that it is sustained by the power of God. 192 S.
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Et etiam velut fabrica summi fabricaloris existit, in qua utensilia ejusdera fabri sunt; quia ut in fabrica ignita et non ignita, massa cujuscumque fabrilis generis est, et ut faber in ea oporans opus suum hac et illac secundum voluntatera suara fundit et ducit, ita etiara abyssus quasi fabrica Creatoris mundi exstans, ea de quibus diversae forraae procedunt, servat, cum aqua» et terram, diversarum creaturarum materiam, sustinet, nec ipsa ab alia creatura portatur, nisi quod per potestatem Dei sustentatur. 192 S.
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