Anf-01 ix.iii.xxxi Pg 3
Isa. xl. 12; 22.
of the earth, as it were, in His hand, in whose sight its inhabitants are counted as grasshoppers, and who is the Creator and Lord of all spiritual substance, is of an animal nature,—they do beyond doubt and verily betray their own madness; and, as if truly struck with thunder, even more than those giants who are spoken of in [heathen] fables, they lift up their opinions against God, inflated by a vain presumption and unstable glory,—men for whose purgation all the hellebore3247 3247 Irenæus was evidently familiar with Horace; comp. Ars. Poet., 300.
on earth would not suffice, so that they should get rid of their intense folly.
