VAULT OF EARTH

See ASTRONOMY, sec. III, 1.

Concerning the Heaven.
... Isaiah, Who hath established the heavens like a vault [1692] : and also because
when the sun, moon, and stars set they make a circuit round the earth from west ...
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Remarks on the Creation of the World.
... of, on account of the heaven which God made covering the waters and the earth like
a ... in these words: "It is God who made the heavens as a vault, and stretched ...
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"Behold the Man. "
... By his fingers for a dwelling. Was heaven's vault sublime upreared: Jesus suffered
when to save us. He as man on earth appeared. Lofty Angels! God-like spirits, ...
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The Difficulty and Excellence of virginity; the Study Of
... the earth, not turning aside from their aim, until having, by swiftness of thought,
lightly bounded above the world, and taken their stand truly upon the vault ...
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We have Now, Then, to Refute that Statement of his which Runs as ...
... on earth, would not be gods, but only certain demons, much inferior to those wise
men among mankind, who on account of their virtue ascend to the vault [4079 ...
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Thanksgiving to God for the Pardon Granted to the Offenders ...
... instance, hath remained immoveable, according as the prophet says, "He placed the
heaven as a vault, and stretched it out as a tent over the earth." [1505] But ...
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Of the Burial of the Dead: that the Denial of it to Christians ...
... has well said: "He who has no tomb has the sky for his vault." [67] How ... formed anew,
all the members of it being gathered not only from the earth, but from the ...
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The Oration. To-Day is the Festival of Our Great Emperor: and we ...
... itself, to him the heavens above, and the choirs beyond the vault of heaven ... The
everlasting ages which were before this heaven and earth, with other periods ...
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Argument. --Novatian
... who has suspended the heavens in lofty sublimity, has established the earth with
its ... For in the solid vault of heaven He has both awakened the light-bringing ...
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The Nativity
... Deep-rooted groves, whose heads sublimely rise,. Earth-born, and yet ambitious of
the skies; ... Thou azure vault where, through the gloom of night,. ...
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