Annotatio CXLVII
”Blessed is the man who hath not walked.” — Psalm 1:1
Ambrose, at the beginning of the preface on the Psalms, says that the Angels existed before this visible world1 — which most of the Fathers do not approve. He asserts also that the heavens, by their rotation, produce a perpetual sound — which Basil and Epiphanius reject as a fabulous thing, and worthy of laughter. We have written on both assertions in the Censures on the book of Genesis, Annotation 5 and Annotation 105.
Footnotes
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Left margin: Whether the angels were created before the world, and whether the heavens emit a vocal sound. (Num angeli ante mundum conditi & an caeli vocalem sonum edant.) ↩