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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE.On the world.
The world is the fabric of heaven and this earth and of all things in these most beautifully and intensely ordered, produced by GOD the Father through His Word and Spirit from things not apparent — Hebrews 11:3.
Mundus among the Latins, Pliny being author, is so called from perfect and absolute elegance.Among the Hebrews olam hazzeh, on account of a beginning remote from mens memory; and among the Greeks aion — Hebrews 11:3 — not as if it were eternal and had always been, but from the stable order of things which God established in it.Also to pan, the universe, because it embraces all existing things besides God.Also kosmos on account of the adornment and beauty of singular things.
Latin
CAPUT VICESIMUM QUINTUM, De mundo. Mundus est compages caeli et hujus terrae omniumque rerum in his pulcherrime intense ordinatarum a DEO Patre per Verbum et Spiritum ipsius ex non apparentibus producta — Hebr. XI.3. Mundus Latinis, Plinio autore, appellatur a perfecta absolutaque elegantia. Hebraeis olam hazzeh, ob initium ab hominum memoria remotum; et Graecis aion — Hebr. XI.3 — non quasi aeternus sit semperque fuerit, sed a stabili ordine rerum, quem Deus in illo firmavit. Item to pan, universum, quod omnes res praeter Deum exsistentes complectatur. Item kosmos propter ornatum et pulchritudinem rerum singularum.