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Amos 5:8

Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Arcturus and Orion. Arcturus is a bright star in the north, Orion a beautiful constellation in the south. (Challoner) Shepherds in Arabia and Spain are well acquainted with the stars. (Calmet) We have examined the meaning of cima and cesil, Job ix. 9., and xxxviii. 31. St. Jerome's master asserts that the latter means "efflugence. "Cima is rendered the Pleiades by Aquila and Theodotion; "the seven stars "by Protestants. (Haydock) When such allusions to the heathen mythology occur, they give no sanction to it, but serve to explain what is meant. (St. Jerome) Morning, affording comfort, chap. iv. 13. Earth, by floods (Calmet) or rain. (St. Jerome)

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