From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 12:35:35 MST
Zero Powers wrote,
>From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
>
> > "J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> > > I saw a documentary on PBS about the Amish. They don't let their kids go
> > > beyond the eighth grade, because it might tempt them to discard literal
> > > belief in the Bible. (They believe the Earth is flat, because the Bible
> > > mentions "the four corners of the Earth").
>
>I recall something about the "4 winds" but don't recall ever reading
>anything about 4 corners (at least not in the KJV), and I think something
>like that would have stuck with me. Anybody know whether there is really
>such a ref in the good book?
Here are the references to the four corners of the earth and other
similar references. Isaiah and Revelation refer to the four corners
of the earth. Other texts refer to the corners or four corners
without being specific.
Deuteronomy 32:26, "I said, I would scatter them into corners, i
would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:"
Nehemiah 9:22, "Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and natins, and
didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon,
and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of
Bashan."
Isaiah 11:12, "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Jeremiah 9:26, "Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of
Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell
in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all
the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."
Jeremiah 25:23, "Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the
utmost corners,"
Jeremiah 49:32, "And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude
of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that
are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all
sides thereof, saith the Lord."
Ezekiel 7:2, "Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the
land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four orners of the
land."
Revelation 7:1, "And after these things I saw four angels standing on
the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth,
that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on
any tree."
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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