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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Prov 8:27
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Prov 8:27 · Douay-Rheims
“When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:”
On this verse:
“when he set . . . depth--marked out the circle, according to the popular idea of the earth, as circular, surrounded by depths on which the visible concave heavens rested.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.