Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-06-04

JE COUNTY, MIMI. SAT
81, ASTRONOMY OF The BIBLE. 50
When the tribunal, which in 1888
condemned Calico for maintaining
propositions in regard to the revoln
ton Of the earth, philosophical,
|talse, erroneous in faith, and express
ly contrary to Holy Scripturc,'' and
triumphantly pointed to the command
of Joshua, ''Sun stand thou still upon
Gideon; and thou, Moon in the valley
of Anjalon. And the sun stood still
and the moon stayed" Oh. x. Il, ,--in
entire confidence that the Ptolemaic
system was incontrovertible; they lit.
tie thought that there was a passage
in Scripture, written more than two
hundred years before Joshua crossed
the Jordan, in which, the revolution
of the earth upon its axis is fully con.
frmed. But such is the case and had
their eminences been as good Hebra.
lists as they were inquisitors, they wo'd
have known that the Lord, when he
answered Job out Of the, storm, had
distinctly declared it, and would not
have "darkened counsel, by words
without knowledge" 5y.e.aaa o. ,~9.a
! Perhaps some of our readers will he
not less surprised than the cardinals
themselves would have been, to find
that the old patriarch had revelation
on astronomy. They may say that
astronomy was born in the pure at
mosphere of the Orient, where the
moons of Jupiter may be seen with
out the aid of the glass of Fiesole,
and that it is not strange that the
|"greatest among the sons of the
East should be acquainted with the
sciance of his native land; but they
are not prepared to acknowledge that
he was in advance Of Copernicus.--
He was, however, as we will now
show, we trust, 10 their entire satis-
faction. The Rev. Cartaret Priaux
Carey, incumbent st. Johns Guern-
sey, in his late elaborate work upon
the book of Job, thus translates the
passage in the thirty-eighth chapter,
commencing at the twelfth verse:
Hast thou, since thy days commanded the
Aud caused the day spring to know its place,
To take hold Of the wings of the earth,
That the wicked might he shaken out of it
1t turneth around like IL seal Of clay. ~
And things stand out as enough in dress. del.
An examination Of the original will
satisfy any one moderately acquainted
with the Hebrew, that Mr.. Crary is
correct. The words will not bear the
rendering given them in the Anglican
version. !" Githhappcch, it turneth
round, or goeth round, and when the
context requires continuance, it con-
tinues to go round.'' That is, it re-
wolves. Compare Genesis iii. "a,
Jud gcs vii. l3, and Job. xxxvn. IL,
the only three places where the verb
is found in the Hithapel form. The
rendering is also sustained by the
fact, that Cheekhomcr Khotham sho'd
be translated like clay of SEAL" i. g.
"a clay SEAL" according to the com
mon rule of opposition. Both in As
syria and Egypt, these clay seals are
found. They have their designs in re.
|liefu upon the tire, so to speak, and when
used were rolled over the object that
was to receive the impression. Tins
objects, ''staud out" and the revolu.
ton of the earth upon its axis is evi-
dently stated in scripture; and the
establishment of this astronomical prin-
ciplc most convincingly manifests what
has often been asserted, that the more
the scripture is searched the more
truth will it be found to contain, and
that works and word OF God are not
more sublime than harmonious and
consistent. a'sar 50 -.t Ba5a-,. s..ar
Had not in Galileo's time know
ledge Of Hebrew, been confined to 8
very few, and had not the ecclesiastic.
like too many of the clergy of our owr
!, time, contented themselves with sucl
acquaintance with holy writ, as ma,
be obtained from versions, there would
not have been enacted that dark seen,
which affords in the punishment ant
retraction Of Calico, 50 triumphan
an exhibition of the wickedness anG
weakness Of man. <sHuman nature,
I, said Sir David Brewster, sis her,
drawn in its darkest coloring in sur.
[veying the melancholy picture, it is diff
6cult to decide whether religion O.
philosophy has been most degraded
While we hear the presumptous prizes
pronouncing infallible the: decrees o
bis own erring judgement, we see tn,
|high-minded philosopher abiuring tn,
eternal and immutable truths which
he has himself the glory Of establish
ling" aa,a:tr9 - .. ....,
Il SMELLING AND TAsT1NG.-t.Is tn,
sense of smelling more pleasing thar
the sense of tasting?'' was the subjec
mp before the Western Debating Soci
|ety in the bar room. Uncle Joe wa
1.-THE last one to speak upon'the negative
and all were anxious to hear him de
liver himself Walking up to the bar
keeper, he called for q hot whiskey
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