OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 9:6

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It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—the LORD is his name.

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Verse 6. Ascension, or his high throne. Challoner.—Septuagint “the ascent, and hath founded the declarations ( Bible.) or promise upon,” and so forth which must be explained in a moral sense. Calmet.—Bundle. That is, his Church, bound up together by the bands of one faith and communion, ( Challoner.) which God will protect, and punish sinners. Worthington.—Hebrew “his apartments in heaven, and his assembly (or footstool) on earth.”—Sea, by floods, or rather by rain. Calmet. 5:8. Calmet.

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