Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XXII: Motions of the Stars.
which are not obvious to all, let us come to those things of
which nobody is ignorant. Who disposed the courses of the
stars with so great reason, ordained their risings and settings,
and appointed to each one to accomplish the circuit of the
heavens in certain and regular times? Who assigned to some
to be always approaching to the setting, and others to be returning
to the rising? Who put a measure upon the courses of
the sun, that he might mark out, by his diverse motions, hours,
and days, and months, and changes of seasons, or that he
might distinguish, by the sure measurement of his course, now
winter, then spring, summer, and afterwards autumn, and always,
by the same changes of the year, complete the circle
with variety, without confusion? Who, I say, will not pronounce
that the director of such order is the very wisdom of
Yahweh? And these things we have spoken according to the
relations given us by the Greeks respecting the science of the
heavenly bodies.
Chapter XXIII: Providence in Earthly Things.
ch we see on
the earth or in the sea? Are we not plainly taught that not only
the work but also the providence of Elohim is in them? For
whereas there are on the earth lofty mountains in certain
places, their purpose is that the air, being compressed and
confined by them through the appointment of Elohim, may be
forced and pressed out into winds, by which fruits may germinate
and the summer heat may be moderated when the
Pleiades glow, fired with the blaze of the sun. But you still say,
he sun, that moderating should be re-
ssary
for the uses of men? But observe this also, that at the
meridian axis, where the heat is greatest, there is no great collection
of clouds, nor an abundant fall of rain, lest disease
should be produced among the inhabitants; for watery clouds,