Firmament

The head of the good beast rises into the heavens, the mysterious waters which cover the world flow along her spine; the star-covered underside of her body, which we call the firmament, is visible to the inhabitants of earth, and her four legs are the four pillars standing at the four cardinal points of the world. ❋ M. L. McClure (1881)

The reader may also refer to the note of Johannes Clericus, in his commentary on Genesis, who retains the word firmament, and argues at length in vindication of the term. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

The firmament is the cupola of his temple and the breath of millions the incense of his altar. ❋ Unknown (1925)

Scripture constantly makes use of the word firmament to express extraordinary strength. ❋ Unknown (1895)

I have said what the word firmament in Scripture means. ❋ Unknown (1895)

But the firmament is firm, and answers to its name, when those who seem to prop it are gone. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The interposing firmament is to him as transparent crystal, Ezek. i. ❋ Unknown (1721)

In thy book thou dost discuss these things with us wisely, our God -- in thy book, which is thy "firmament" -- in order that we may be able to view all things in admiring contemplation, although thus far we must do so through signs and seasons and in days and years. ❋ 345-430 (1955)

As to the heavens in general, the prevailing view in the Church was based upon the scriptural declarations that a solid vault -- a "firmament" -- was extended above the earth, and that the heavenly bodies were simply lights hung within it. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Perhaps it is really true that the earth is a dark ball, hanging in the open space which we call the firmament of heaven, moving slowly round the shining sun, but spinning like a top all the time itself, so that first one side and then the other faces the brightness; and thus there is a constant change from light to darkness and darkness to light going on all over the world; and this makes Day and Night. ❋ Unknown (1857)

Reflecting back the firmament is the liquid desert of the sea herself, sparking with phosphorescence. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

The star in the firmament is a strong, labor-intensive garments industry -- a direct product of liberalization. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Be that as it may, it is an astonishing phenomenon that a society of men who had never made war should have invented a sort of war carried on in imaginary space, or in a globe distant from our own, or in what is called the firmament — the empyrean. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These childish and savage populations imagined the earth to be flat, supported, I know not how, by its own weight in the air; the sun, moon, and stars to move continually upon a solid vaulted roof called a firmament; and this roof to sustain waters, and have flood-gates at regular distances, through which these waters issued to moisten and fertilize the earth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The firmament was a sort of demi-vault which came close down to the earth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We have believed that the clouds touched the firmament, that the firmament was a hard substance, and that it supported a reservoir of water. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Moslems, like many of the Jews, hold that Paradise was not on earth, but in the lowest firmament, which is, as it were, a reflection of earth. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And so also, of the heaven which was created, he thought that the heaven which was created -- and which he also called the firmament -- was that creation which the senses perceive; and that the heaven which the intellect perceives is that other of which the prophet said, "The heaven of heavens is the Lord's, but the earth hath He given to the children of men." ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)

The "firmament" of [the earth] is [never ending]. ❋ Prophet Of God (2017)

Maybe we should have built this [firmament] better, I think the [Waters] of life are going to [wash] the firmament away. ❋ 1 J. (2018)

s: [I'm sad] you naiied me and took away my [colourful] sky, Miss Eltoe n: Naw...I gave u a firmament with all the memories u have of us. and I'll be back [in Season] "n" ❋ Lover_wo_2019 (2022)