25. So is this great and wide sea. He gives
an instance of the immense number and variety of Jehovah’s works by pointing to
the sea. “Look,” says he, “at yonder ocean, stretching
itself on both hands and embracing so many lands; it too swarms with animal
life, and in its deeps lie treasure beyond all counting.” The heathen made the sea a different province form the land, and gave
the command thereof to Neptune, but we know of a surety that Jehovah rules the
waves. Wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts;
read “moving things and animals small and great,” and you have the true sense. The number of minute forms of animal life
is indeed beyond all reckoning: when a single phosphorescent wave may bear
millions of protozoa, and around a fragment of rock armies of microscopic
beings may gather, we renounce all idea of applying arithmetic to such a case.
The sea in many regions appears to be all alive, as if every drop were a world.
Truly, O Lord, thou makest the sea to be as rich in the works of thy hands as
the land itself.
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