needful to preferve tbe material-Syffem. .- 225 
lifned metal; ^ The forementioned Frezc and Latin verons, 
and the Greek of the Septuagint, do, in this paflage, all concur 
with the EzeZ/b, in reprefenting the {ky as ftrong, firm, and 
folid. The Septuagint efpecially, expreffes this idea with pe- 
culiar force ; as doth alfo the Hebrew original :- which, in this 
place, refembles the per: to a € or mirror, ‘ j made of 
polifhed metal.” * " 
* The elegant fimile of d mirror cannot be nacler aged 
without recolle&ing, that their looking-glafles (or mirrors) were 
made of metal highly polifhed.” + 
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This“ defcription fhews the fky to be, not only ñrm and 10- 
lid, but remarkably adapted to rcfle& light ; and fo far inti- 
mates the caufe, why it is vifible. The fky here, as the fir- 
mament | in a former claufe, ie nana to one of the ftories, . 
which God built in the heavens. 9 
‘There are other paflages, which mention the redis out, 
and ftretching out, of the heavens ; and this as declarative of 
the difcretion, the underftanding, the wiídom, and power of. 
God: But if. it be a mere appearance, arifing from the atmof- 
phere-vapours, in a particular fate p rélecuna tei gue iis. yis 
of light; or if it be a mere circun 
"ing from, the atmofphere ; ‘and doth not «t indicate the rai ex- 
Et c 
sitis contineat, ; nullà re nitens. dius. a ps ei; folidift i qi ft 
; fortes : item ficut fpeculum fufum, five concretum .— Celos, quibus firmitas tribui- 
“tur Prov. viii. 28. unde poete cælum vocérunt kalkeon ouranon. Specula fufa in- 
tellige ex ære vel chalybe: —Vox fortes foliditatem LM Cong permite 
ut fimul cohereat. Poli Syn. wet oM | Y 
* Fufum, firmum, validum, inftar fuh et confiftentis metalli. Tayloe Hebrew 
“Concordance, root 783. 26. ee 
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