 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 449 pages
...form of them we also content ourselves with the language of the same prophet, when praising God '• that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in." a In the same way, as concerns the earth, let us resolve not to torment ourselves by trying to find... | |
 | Alan Gurney - History - 2007 - 338 pages
...flat-disc theory of the ancient Greeks. For does not the Lord "sitteth upon the circle of the Earth" and "stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:22)? Jerusalem is the center of this disc, for "I have set it in the midst of the nations... | |
 | J. L. E. Dreyer - Astronomy - 2007 - 437 pages
...moon and stars4. The heaven is not a sphere, but a tent or tabernacle; "it is He... that streteheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in"" ; the Scripture says that it has a top, which a sphere has not, and it is also written : " The sun... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges... 
