19. Who is there of all the children of men, capable of hearing the
voice of the Holy One without emotion?
20. Who is there capable of thinking his thoughts? Who capable of
contemplating all the workmanship of heaven? Who of comprehending the
deeds of heaven?
21. He may behold its animation, but not its spirit. He may be capable
of conversing _respecting it_, but not of ascending _to it_. He may see
all the boundaries of these things, and meditate upon them; but he can
make nothing like them.
22. Who of all men is able to understand the breadth and length of the
earth?
23. By whom have been seen the dimensions of all these things? Is it
every man who is capable of comprehending the extent of heaven; what its
elevation is, and by what it is supported?
24. How many are the numbers of the stars; and where all the luminaries
remain at rest?
Footnote 246:
_in it._
Footnote 247:
_after it has been completed._
Footnote 248:
The deluge.
Footnote 249:
Abraham.
Footnote 250:
The Law.
Footnote 251:
Temple of Solomon.
Footnote 252:
Nebuchadnezzar.
Footnote 253:
Babylonian captivity.
Footnote 254:
The preceding six verses, viz. 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th,
are taken from between the 14th and 15th verses of the nineteenth
chapter, where they are to be found in the MSS. But the sense in this
place seemed so manifestly to require them here, that I have ventured
to transpose them.