angels. The phrase, in short, comprehends all the living inhabitants as well as inanimate objects which the universe contains, wherever scattered through immensity, or whatever else exists in the boundless regions of space. So the Jewish commentators, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Maimonides, interpret it as denoting ‘the heavens with all they contain, and the earth with all that belongs to it.’ In this extended view of the phrase a satisfactory refutation is found of the contemptuous cavil of Voltaire,