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Deuteronomy 28:23

And your heaven that is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397
By “brass heaven” Scripture means that the heavens are shut up and deny their benefit to the earth. And the earth is iron when it rejects crops and refuses to receive. It is as if in hostile hardness the seed is cast upon the earth, which should be a fruitful field, but it is hard and hostile. The earth ought to nourish the seeds as if in the bosom of a gentle mother. But when does iron bear fruit? When does copper let loose showers? Letter ()..

Basil the Great

AD 379
What is meant by “a heaven of brass”? Absolute dryness and lack of aerial waters through which the earth produces its fruits.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Of brass, and yield no rain. (Menochius) Pindar says, (Pyth. x.) "The heaven of brass they never can ascend. "See Leviticus xxvi. 19.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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