Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Voici, les nations sont comme une goutte d'un seau, Elles sont comme de la poussière sur une balance; Voici, les îles sont comme une fine poussière qui s'envole.
KJV
Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
h the Divine Power; because no action is of any account compared with the power of God, according to Is. 40:15 : "Behold the Gentiles are as a drop from a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance." But a thing is called a miracle by comparison with the power of…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
ere. Sciant omnes gentes, quasi stilo situlae @ [Col. 0286D] Haec verba omissa a Mab. supplendum ex Isai. XL, 15: Ecce gentes quasi stilla situlae, et quasi momentum staterae reputatae sunt: ecce insulae quasi pulvis exiguus.. Quis ego nisi pulvis parvissimus? Tamen qui de pulve…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 101 (Migne)
ratiocinari de illo. In cujus comparatione dicente propheta: Omnes gentes sunt quasi situlae stilla (Isai. XL, 15) ; qui magnus et metuendus est super omnes qui in circuitu ejus sunt. Si autem angelicis ordinibus et spiritibus justorum magnus est et metuendus, quid nos luteas hab…
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