countenance and upright posture, they have preferred to bend themselves to the earth and cattle-like to crawl upon the ground. For he is low, and curved, and bent forward who turns from the sight of heaven and God, his Father, and honors the earth, that is, things made and fashioned of earth which he should have trampled upon. In such great impiety, therefore, and in such great sins, the patience of God brings it about that men, condemning the errors of their previous lives, correct themselves. I