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He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
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Verse 7. North pole, which alone was visible in Idumea, and continued unmoved, while all the stars performed their revolutions. Calmet.—Nothing. Terra, pilæ similis, nullo fulcimine nixa. Ovid, Fast. vi. Calmet.—All tends to the centre, ( Menochius.) by the laws of attraction. Newton, and so forth Bible.
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