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Chapter 4 -- The Cross
To appreciate the persistence of the Niles's association with the
Gihon, we quote from L'Image du Monde (c. 1246) by Gautier de
Metz, a work based on Imago Mundi by Honorius of Autun (d.
1151) dealing with creation, the earth and the universe.
The second of the four flodes is named Gyon or Nylus, which
entreth into the erthe by a pool, and renneth under the erthe.
Merz described the Nile encircling Egypt and Ethiopia -- not a bad
approximation from the European perspective -- and a spherical
Earth (right).
Let us turn to Genesis 4:11-12.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's
blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her
strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Note the change of adverb in the chronology of translations.
King James Version 1611 in the earth
American Standard Version 1901 in the earth
Revised Standard Version 1946 on the earth
New International Version 1973 on the earth
New King James Version 1982 on the earth
21st Century King James 1994 on the earth
Are we on the earth, or are we inside it? We'll speculate in Chapter 14, Hollow Earth
Geophysics.
Genesis 11:7 concerns Noah's Flood.
The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened.
"Fountains of the deep," will come to be a favorite phrase of those striving to assign a Biblical
basis to the science of hydrology.
The Book of Exodus
Subterranean waters made the Second Commandment, Exodus 20:4.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
“Water under the earth” was physically known to the Hebrews. They knew of hand-dug qanats,
(Chapter 59) in Armenia and Persia. Hebrew land extended to the River Jordan, the eastern
source said to emerge fully-formed from an iron-red limestone cliff at the foot of Mt. Hermon.
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