Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je ferai reculer de dix degrés en arrière avec le soleil l'ombre des degrés qui est descendue sur les degrés d'Achaz. Et le soleil recula de dix degrés sur les degrés où il était descendu.
KJV
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e the sun and moon to stand still ( Josh. 10:12-14 ), and by Isaias, who made the sun to turn back ( Is. 38:8 ), than by Moses, who divided the Red Sea ( Ex. 14:21 ). In like manner greater miracles were wrought by Elias, of whom it is written ( Ecclus. 48:4,5 ): "Who can glory l…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
chias, and by the miraculous eclipse at the time of Christ's Passion [* Jos. 10:14 ; 4 Kings 20:10 ; Is. 38:8 ; Mat. 27:15 ]. In like manner the reason for a dispensation from a precept of the law of nature is sometimes found in the lower causes, and in this way a dispensation ma…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 174 (Migne)
ol horologio Achaz retrorsum revertitur. Horologio enim regis Achaz, qui apprehendens Deum dicitur (Isa. XXXVIII, 8) , mysterium incarnationis Christi exprimitur, quo velut in horologio temporum cursus, electorum et reproborum status distinguitur, sicut Simeon beatae Virgini loq…
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