dulge the passions, is introduced as lamenting; for mourning among them is computed at seventy days. Genesis 1. 8. This number, therefore, as I have said before, is familiar to Moses, but the number of the five outward senses is familiar to him who embraces the body and external…

od, and that it might weigh down and overwhelm the mind with the Deuteronomy x. 22. Genesis xlv. 22. Genesis 1. 8. Genesis xlvii. 24. multitude of things which were thus brought upon it; for during the banquet of the outer senses, the mind is labouring under a famine, as, on the…

day? Objection 1: It would seem that the firmament was not made on the second day. For it is said ( Gn. 1:8 ): "God called the firmament heaven." But the heaven existed before days, as is clear from the words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth." Therefore the firmame…