[37] Immediately afterwards he, with great propriety and entire correctness, called it the heaven, either because it was already the boundary
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of everything, or because it was the first of all visible things which was created; and after its second rising he called the time day, referring the entire space and measure of a day to the heaven, on account of its dignity and honour among the things perceptible to the external senses.
De Opificio Mundi. Philo Judaeus. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). Germany. 2023-08-01.
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