From Nave’s Topical Bible
Firmament
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 5Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- The expanse above the earthGenesis 1:6–8Genesis 1:14–17Genesis 1:20Psalms 19:1Daniel 12:3
The passages, in Bible order (5)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 1:6–8
And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
Commentary on Genesis 1:6–81 voice
On the first day God made what He made out of nothing. But on the other days He did not make out of nothing, but out of what He had made on the first day, by moulding it according to His pleasure.
Hippolytus of Rome· Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments - On GenesisPatristic
- Genesis 1:14–17
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
Commentary on Genesis 1:14–171 voice
"Let them serve," he says, "for the fixing of days," not for making days but for ordering the days. For day and night are earlier than the generation of the luminaries.
Basil of Caesarea· HEXAEMERON 6.8Patristic
- Genesis 1:20
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- Psalms 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
Commentary on Psalms 19:12 voices
"The heavens declare the glory of God." The book of nature has three leaves, heaven, earth, and sea, of which heaven is the first and the most glorious, and by its aid we are able to see the beauties of the other two. Any book without its first page would be sadly imperfect, and especially the great Natural Bible, since its first pages, the sun, moon, and stars, supply light to the rest of the volume, and are thus the keys, without which the writing which follows would be dark and undiscerned.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
Creation … points to God as its Maker and Artificer, who reigns over creation and over all things, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; whom would-be philosophers turn from to worship and deify the creation that proceeded from him, which yet itself worships and confesses the Lord whom they deny on its account.
Athanasius of Alexandria· Against the Heathen 27:3-5Patristic
- Daniel 12:3
Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
Commentary on Daniel 12:32 voices
Answering to "they that understand" (Da 11:33, 35), the same Hebrew, Maskilim; Israelites who, though in Jerusalem when wickedness is coming to a head, are found intelligent witnesses against it.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
And they that be wise - This is the language which, in the Scriptures, is employed to denote the pious, or those who serve God and keep his commandments. See the book of Proverbs, passim. True religion is wisdom, and sin is folly, and they who live for God and for heaven are the truly wise. The meaning is, that they have chosen the path which true wisdom suggests as that in which man should walk, while all the ways of sin are ways of folly.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical