Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. From LearnThat.org. [Daniel Webster (1782-1852).]
I have said what the word firmament in Scripture means. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
Scripture constantly makes use of the word firmament to express extraordinary strength. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
But the firmament is firm, and answers to its name, when those who seem to prop it are gone. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
The firmament is the cupola of his temple and the breath of millions the incense of his altar. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas D'Arcy McGee] Reference
If the firmament is your thing, look no further than Space. com. From Wordnik.com. [Mashable!] Reference
But at no portion of the firmament was the polarisation complete. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The creation of the firmament was the great work of the second day. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
"My good woman," said he, "what under the firmament is the matter?". From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
The firmament was a sort of demi-vault which came close down to the earth. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
How bright in the brow of the firmament was the planet which it revealed to us!. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
It is the custom of Scripture to call firmament all that is strong and unyielding. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
This further reduces the credibility of the claim that the firmament is a solid dome. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
And now the "waters above" the firmament are the throne waters at the edge of the Day. From Wordnik.com. [Kata Iwannhn] Reference
Wasn't it Emerson who somewhere said that the firmament was the daily bread for one's eyes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Wife] Reference
The firmament is the beauty of the height, and the beauty of heaven is in the sight of glory. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
Reflecting back the firmament is the liquid desert of the sea herself, sparking with phosphorescence. From Wordnik.com. [Kook] Reference
The star in the firmament is a strong, labor-intensive garments industry -- a direct product of liberalization. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Key to Sri Lankan Peace] Reference
The inferior heaven is called the firmament, because it separates the superincumbent waters from the waters below. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
Actually that was his dad's old joke, to call furniture "firmament". From Wordnik.com. [Homebody]
How much does it share in common with the scientific views of neighboring cultures (e.g., the "firmament")?. From Wordnik.com. [Augustine on Creation] Reference
Genesis 1:6-7 uses a Hebrew word for a solid dome in the King James Version this is translated as 'firmament'. From Wordnik.com. [Statement of Faith for Biblical Literalists] Reference
(v. 14, 15), and as low as the place where the birds fly, for that also is called the firmament of heaven, v. 20. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
This act corresponds closely to the creation of a "firmament" in the first chapter of Genesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
The Egyptians considered the earth as a table, flat and oblong, the sky being its ceiling -- a huge "firmament" of metal. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
So under this name firmament be commised the orbs of the heav'ns and the aier and the whole spacious country above the earth. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference
"firmament" has its own well established connotation gathered from a careful study of all its uses. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Religious Cults and Movements] Reference
"firmament" is from the translation of the Vulgate, firmamentum, which involves the idea of something that firmly put in place. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
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