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Title: Hill and city. Mount Zion ..
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Melcher, Josiah F. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Bloomington, Ill.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t from the waters which wereabove the firmament, and it was so. According to the seconddivision as the third heaven dividing the earth into three sepa-arate parts simply. 8. And God called the firmament heaven ; and the eveningand the morning were the second day, (or grade.) Note.—For illustration, let fig. 2 represent the earth in the second gradeparallel with the equator, according to the first and second divisions as thrownoff by the general operation of the forces, that G^d ordained to frame theworld and its perpetual foundations. A A will represent that portion of theearth taken for the first division as figure one—two. The outside shows theface of the great deep, and the inside the broken form. S S represents thesecond heaven, made on the second day, and T T the third inside of the sec-ond division N N, which is below and above the inner division M, on thesame principle that it is under and above in its division, as M is under and NN above. Also the waters covered the poles.
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BIBLE ASTRONOMY, 13 PROCESS OF REMODELING OF THE EARTH—SEC-OND ILLUSTRATION OF THE SECOND GRADE. FIRST DIVISION. 6. u And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst ofthe waters. The text shows the earth to be solid previous to this, and ofcourse a great deal less in diameter: the diameter correspond-ing to the form to about three thousand eight or nine hundredmiles in the primitive state. The first division thrown off byrotation would be very great. It would reduce the primitiveearth without much variation one thousand five hundred miles,and the second division seven or eight hundred more. Thiswould leave but a small diameter of primitive earth withoutdivision. And let it divide the waters from the waters. First. AndGod said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.This is the second heaven; further, midst means centre in theearth. Second. The division of the waters from the watersconveys a reference to the second heaven : division at a pointbetween two contending phillcitymountzio01melc

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