18
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
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Verse 18. Brass. Hebrew “Hast thou with him stretched out (or beaten, as brass, tarkiang; which word Moses uses for the firmament) the heavens, which are as solid (Chal. and like) a molten looking-glass?” which was formerly made of metal. Exodus 38:8. The Hebrews looked upon the sky as a sheet of brass; and the poets speak of the brazen heaven. Pindar. Nem. vi. Iliad A.
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