• “Tell me, of what age was Adam when he was created?” is one of the questions in the Anglo-Saxon “Dialogue between Saturn and Solomon”; and the answer is, “I tell thee, he was thirty winters old.” And Buti says:⁠— “He was created of the age of thirty-three, or thereabout; and therefore the author says that Adam alone was created by God in perfect age and stature, and no other man.” And Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici , § 39:⁠— “Some divines count Adam thirty years old at his creation, because they suppose him created in the perfect age and stature of man.” Stehelin, Traditions of the Jews , I 16, quotes Rabbi Eliezer as saying “that the first man reached from the earth to the firmament of heaven; but that, after he had sinned, God laid his hands on him and reduced him to a less size.” And Rabbi Salomon writes, that “when he lay down, his head was in the east and his feet in the west.” ↩
• Parhelion is an imperfect image of the sun, formed by reflection in the clouds. All things are such faint reflections of the Creator; but he is the reflection of none of them. Buti interprets the passage differently, giving to the word pareglio the meaning of ricettacolo , receptacle. ↩