110. And therefore, the Psalmist
saith: “My bones are not hidden, which Thou didst make in
secret, and my substance in the underworld.”
“Non est occultatum os meum quod fecisti in abscondito,
et substantia mea in inferioribus terræ.” The
Prayer-book version runs: “My bones are not hid from Thee,
though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the
earth.”—Ps.
cxxxix. 14. “My
bones were not hid from Thee, when I was made in secret, [when] I was
curiously wrought [as] in the lower parts of the
earth.”—Perowne. For to His power and Godhead,
the things that before the foundation of the world were done, though
their magnificence was [as yet] invisible, could not be hidden.
Here, then, we find mention of “substance.”