For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard anything like it?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Heaven. To our senses the sky seems to rest upon the horizon. So Jesus says, Then he. Shall gather. His elect. From the uttermost part of earth, to the uttermost part of heaven, Matthew xxiv. 31. Vatable translates, "from the east to the west. "In no age or place did God ever declare his will, as he had done at Sinai. (Calmet)