...are feeble ; and some are sick, and some are well ; yet none may say to time, as it tides onward, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed."1 And so is it with each of us, as it was with the holy prophet in his vision of the...

...mastery of himself. He who by divine grace can successfully say to the stormy passions of his own soul, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,"! is an object upon whom, not the false gods of polytheism, but the Jehovah of the...

...dashed itself to pieces against the gates of Rome, safely guarded by the Prince of the Apostles. ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' The new canon relieved the spiritual barrenness of his ministry in St. Peter's by...

...a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, and said, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further : And here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; And caused the day-spring to know...

...darkness a swaddlingband for it, And prescribed for it my decree, And set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed"? Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to...

...foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding!" * And, who art thou who dare say to nature, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"? But what matters it if they do deny? Can they prevent phenomena taking place in the...

...the sea, commanding it to keep within boundaries (' who shut up the sea with doors . . . And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: / And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?'53 ), and stilling its storms, were a perennial frisson of omnipotence. He commandeth,...

...together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? . . . Wast thou present when I said to the seas, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" . . . Knowest thou who hath caused it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the...

...shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb. . . . And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" (Job 38:8, 11). But of course Christ breaks the Sabbath repeatedly. And he justifies this behavior by referring...

...unknown is held to be glorious'. thus far shalt thou go: God sets the boundaries of the ocean, Job 18: n: 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' The whole chapter concerns the limitations of human as opposed to divine knowledge....