The Stars: Infinite in Number

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Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your seed be.
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Jeremiah 33:2
Thus said the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
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Whether the Number of the Predestined is Certain
... intends to make something finite, as we explained when speaking of the infinite
(Q.7 ... He has preordained the number of worlds, the number of the stars, of the ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article seven whether the number.htm

Whether the Number of the Predestined is Certain?
... said above when we treated of the infinite ([192]Q ... the whole of the universe, and
what number would befit ... perpetuity; how many spheres, how many stars, how many ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the number of the.htm

That the Righteous Shall ever Abide with Christ Our Lord we have ...
... places." Whence, since God's saints have these promises and an infinite number like
them ... of the sun, and be adorned with the splendour of the stars and of this ...
/.../46 that the righteous shall.htm

Fragments of the Books on Arithmetic.
... axis of the zodiac; and that the axis of the fixed stars and the ... things was explained
as being due to the fortuitous combination of an infinite number of atoms ...
/.../the paschal canon of anatolius of alexandria/fragments of the books on.htm

God the Centre or Heart of the Universe.
... incorporeal power; the whole universe with the stars and regions ... as it were in the
centre of the infinite, being the ... He Himself, looking as to a number that is ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter ix god the centre or.htm

Of God and his Attributes.
... not think it impossible there may be stars whose light ... of nature, and lost among
that infinite variety of ... observation is stinted to a certain number of objects ...
/.../sect i of god and.htm

Back to Memphis
... the weaker convicts and decimated the number of laborers ... if such it were, that evolved
the stars. ... If it were omnipotent, infinite and omnipresent, could it be ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxiii back to memphis.htm

Number one Thousand; Or, "Bread Enough and to Spare"
... in gratitude when I think of the infinite mercy of ... my father's!" He was thinking
of their great number, and counting ... find it as easy to tell the stars, or the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/number one thousand or bread.htm

Unfailing Stabs and Fainting Men
... discover, it sees that beneath the beauty is the Fountain of all loveliness, beneath
and behind the 'number' of the numberless stars works the infinite will of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/unfailing stabs and fainting men.htm

Whether God is One?
... they did that the planets and other stars were gods ... For "one" the principle of number
belongs to the "genus ... instance, that He is incorporeal and infinite; and in ...
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Subtopics

Stars

Stars of the Deliverer

Stars: Comets

Stars: Constellations of

Stars: Created by God

Stars: Crown of Twelve Stars

Stars: Darkening of

Stars: Differ in Splendor

Stars: Falling of

Stars: Orion

Stars: Planets