Ps. l. 12. 1 Chr. xvi. 32. Deut. xxxiii. 16.FULNESS. Plenitudo. The Scripture often makes use of this word, to signify things very different; Plenitudo pugilli, a handful, as much as the hand will hold. Plenitudo Gomer, a full Omer. Plenitudo agri, a full field. The world and the Fulness thereof; the world and all that it contains. Let the Sea roar, and the Fulness thereof; let it roar with the noise and agitation of its waves, and every thing included in it, let it pay its homage to the Lord. For the precious things of the earth, and the Fulness thereof. Let the blessings of God descend plentifully upon Joseph, let the earth and the fields thereof be filled with all manner of riches.
Prov. xix. 23. Is. i. 11.Timor Domini ad vitam, & in plenitudine commorabitur. The fear of the Lord giveth life, and plenty of all manner of good things. In the Hebrew, The fear of the Lord tendeth to life, and he that hath it, shall abide satisfied. Full, or Fulness, are taken sometimes in this last sense; To what purpose is the multitude of their sacrifices unto me? — I am full of the burnt-offerings; I am sated with
a Simon addit. au supplem. a Leon de Modena, p. 274. b Lev. xix. 27. פרעלים Gen. xxv. 8. and 1 Chr. xxiii. 1. John i. 16. Matth. ix. 16. 2 Macc. vi. 14. Ezek. xxxii. 15. Rom. xiii. 10. Gal. iv. 4.them. Full of years, one who had lived long enough.
Plenitudo sapientiæ est timor Domini; the perfection, the consummation. The fear of the Lord is the highest point of Wisdom. Wisdom shall be admired, in plenitudine Sanctâ, in the congregation of all the Saints, of all the Israelites, Ecclus. xxiv. 3. and ver. 16. in plenitudine sanctorum; and in xxxv. 23. Donec tollat plenitudinem superborum, till he destroy the congregation of the proud. And Ezekiel, The country shall be desolate from the Fulness thereof. Egypt shall be depopulated; the Fulness of their Sins; the height of iniquity; that which is put in to fill it up, taketh from the garment; that is to say, the very place which it should fill, it tears the garments still more. We have all received of the fulness of Jesus Christ, the superabundance of graces, with which he was filled, has been poured out upon us. Love is the fulness of Rom. xi. 25.the Law, it is the perfection, the consummation of other Laws. The Fulness of time, the time wherein the Messiah appeared, which is the time, and the completion of the times marked out by the Prophets. When the Fulness of the Gentiles shall come in; when all the Gentiles, of whom God will please to compose his Church, shall by Faith be entred into it.