Bellarmine on Psalm XCII: Verse 2

Verse 2

For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.

Etenim firmavit orbem terrae, qui non commovebitur.

God began to reign from the beginning of the world, because then He established the orb of the earth[1] from the deepest foundations; and He established and made it stable so that it cannot be moved, and through this He provided a fixed home for men, who are under duty to acknowledge God as (their)

king and to serve Him. Christ, too, by His passion and resurrection, established and made solid, in the one and perfectly true religion and faith, the orb of the earth which was troubled by the various tumults of demons, while some men served other gods.

[1] orbis , is, m.: a circle, ring; orb, disk earth; world (imagined as a disc containing land surrounded by Ocean, cf. Pangaia, or the earth before the cataclysm of the Flood); earth, world (imagined as a globe); the whole world, all the world’s inhabitants; the fixed earth and the orbiting universe; orb (as symbol of royal power).

Totus tuus ego sum

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:

Ad Jesum per Mariam.