III.
"In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth," 1 both terrestrial and celestial things. And that this is true, the Lord said to Osee, "Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: because the land committing fornication, shall commit fornication, departing from the Lord." 2 For it is not the element of earth that he speaks of, but those that dwell in the element, those who have an earthly disposition.
