224 Mr. Bow Doin on an all-furrounding Orb, 
ifpacious extenfion, which is fpread: abroad between: the earth 
and the clouds :. as aljo- to chat other firmament, or fpacious ex- 
tenfion, which is above the clouds, where the — bodies 
care placed.” * | 
- The original word + means, not only firmament, but ex- 
‘panfe, or fpacious extenfien. In the Engh ih tranflation, and 
"alfo inthe Greek of the Septuagint, it conveys the idea of fome- 
e firm and folid. Some other tranflations adopt the other 
(of it. It feems- *oinclude both ; and in that cafe 
j it Taylor; Hebrew, Concordance, root 1826. 
“means ns fomething folid, and -{pacioully extentied.. 
- This explication of the term, connected with ihe appearance 
of this firmament, or expanfe, gives us the intimation of a fo- 
lid and fpacioufly extended orb, or {phere : and anfwers to one 
of the ftories, which God built in the heavens. 
** The heavens t declare the glory of God : and the firma- 
ment fheweth his iai "—Here is a clear diftin&ion 
` "between the heavens and the firmament, By the former, arc 
-meant the heavenly bodies ; and by-the latter, the Baer, 
or expanfe, in which they appear. 
. The fame,obfervations may be applied to this, as Mi been 
applied to the foregoing paflage. : 
Another, and more deícriptive of fuch an orb, is the follow- 
ingone: “ Haft thou Ípread out the fky : which is ftrong, 
ene a a molten orn oe :"||-or, as a.mirror made of po- 
lifhed 
= ‘The author of this exl being unacquainted with Hebrew, {peaks of its 
j information 
i Píalm xix. 1, Hiper iig Poli Syn. 
£i Job xxxyii, 18. . An expandifti cum eo. (eum adjuvando) zthera, vel colos, 
wel firmament um? Hoc graci vocant fiereóma quod—firmum "i et fua fe velut 
ZO od dii sicud y : virtuté 
