John of Damascus, on Ps 103:2

“And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:”

“Others [unspecified pagan philosophers], however, have imagined the heavens to have the form of a hemisphere, because the inspired David says, "Who stretches out the heaven like a pavilion" which means a tent; and the blessed Isaiah: "He that establishes the heavens like a vault"; and because the sun, the moon and the stars, when they set, go round the earth from west to north and return again to the east. However, whichever way it may be, all things have been made and established by the command of God and have their foundation in the divine will and desire. "For he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. He has established them for ever, and for ages of ages; he has made a decree, and it shall not pass away."”

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