Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 107:26

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 70, footnote 7 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Hexæmeron. (HTML)

On the Firmament. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1506 (In-Text, Margin)

8. “ And God called the firmament heaven.” The nature of right belongs to another, and the firmament only shares it on account of its resemblance to heaven. We often find the visible region called heaven, on account of the density and continuity of the air within our ken, and deriving its name “heaven” from the word which means to see. It is of it that Scripture says, “The fowl of the air,” “Fowl that may fly…in the open firmament of heaven;” and, elsewhere, “They mount up to heaven.”[Psalms 107:26] Moses, blessing the tribe of Joseph, desires for it the fruits and the dews of heaven, of the suns of summer and the conjunctions of the moon, and blessings from the tops of the mountains and from the everlasting hills, in one word, from all which ...