| Job 26:5
| Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
| With them. The less and greater fishes, (Menochius) or rather the giants and others who were buried in the waters of the deluge, and are confined in the dungeons of hell. The poets speak in the same manner. "Hic genus antiquum terrae, Titania pubes, Fulmine dejecti fundo voluntur in imo. -----Aliis sub gurgite vasto, Infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni." (Virgil, Aeneid vi.) --- Homer (Iliad viii.) and Hesiod (Theog.) place the giants at the extremity of the earth, in the utmost darkness. See also Proverbs 9:18., and Isaias 14:9. (Calmet)
|