“In the same way the name of Cherubim is given from a certain excess of knowledge; hence it is interpreted plenitudo scientiae ; which Dionysius ( Cap. VII Coel. Hier. , a princ. ) explains in four ways: first, as perfect vision of God; secondly, full reception of divine light; thirdly, that in God himself they contemplate the beauty of the order of things emanating from God; fourthly, that, being themselves full of this kind of knowledge, they copiously pour it out upon others.” ↩

• The love of God, which holds them fast to this central point as with a band. Job 38:31:⁠— “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” ↩