11.  This great and wide sea, therein are things creeping innumerable Ps. civ. 25..  Who can describe the beauty of the fishes that are therein?  Who can describe the greatness of the whales, and the nature Gr. ὑπόστασιν, literally “substance.” of its amphibious animals, how they live both on dry land and in the waters?  Who can tell the depth and the breadth of the sea, or the force of its enormous waves?  Yet it stays at its bounds, because of Him who said, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, but within thyself shall thy waves be broken Job xxxviii. 11..  Which sea also clearly shews the word of the command imposed upon it, since after it has run up, it leaves upon the beach a visible line made by the waves, shewing, as it were, to those who see it, that it has not passed its appointed bounds.