Thus the second great production of the Almighty was the element which is next in simplicity, purity, activity, and power, to the light, and no doubt was also used by him as an agent in producing some subsequent effects, especially in gathering the waters into one place. And as this extension or expansion was to be in the midst of the waters, and was to divide the waters from the waters, it chiefly, if not solely, means the air or atmosphere which separates the water in the clouds from that which is in and upon the earth. Let there be a firmament - This term, which is an exact translation of the word used by the Septuagint, or Greek translation of the Old Testament, by no means expresses the sense of the word used by Moses, רקיע, rakiang, which merely means extension or expansion. And gradually this would sink lower and lower, until finally it reached the surface of the earth and at this point the work of the second day would be complete.īenson Commentary Genesis 1:6. If, as geologists tell us, the earth at this stage was an incandescent mass, this expanse would be the ring of equilibrium, where the heat supplied from below was exactly equal to that given off by radiation into the cold ether above. Here, therefore, the word rendered “firmament” means an expanse. ![]() Even in this “Hymn of Creation” we have poetry, but not expressed in vivid metaphors, but in sober and thoughtful language. ![]() As such it appears in the poetry of the Bible, where it is described as a mighty vault of molten glass ( Job 37:18), upheld by the mountains as pillars ( Job 26:11 2Samuel 22:8), and having doors and lattices through which the Deity pours forth abundance ( Genesis 7:11 Psalm 78:23). Undoubtedly it means something solid and such was the idea of the Greeks, and probably also of the Hebrews. When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) A firmament.-This is the Latin translation of the Greek word used by the translators of the Septuagint Version. ![]() For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. It's fascinating.Ī man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. ![]() I really appreciate and find it fun to watch how he's completely rattling the mainstream Christian firmament, just look at the s**tstorm that erupted when he washed the feet of the Muslim prisoners. What an immensurable space is the firmament, wherein a great number of stars, lesser and lesser, and consequently farther and farther off, are seen with our naked eye, and many more discovered with our glasses! If downward from the heavens my head I bow, The steeds climb up the first ascent with pain The Almighty, whose hieroglyphical characters are the unnumbered stars, sun and moon, written on these large volumes of the firmament. Of whose true, fixt, and resting quality, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮven to the heavens their shouting shrillĭoth reach, and all the firmament doth fill.
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