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The '''firmament''' is the sky, conceived as a solid dome.<ref name="NewAdvent">"Firmament", ''Catholic Encyclopedia''</ref> According to Genesis, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from those below: "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|1:6|KJV}}</ref> The word is anglicized from Latin ''firmamentum'', which appears in the [[Vulgate]].
The '''firmament''' is the sky, conceived as a solid dome.<ref name="NewAdvent">"[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06079b.htm Firmament]", ''Catholic Encyclopedia''</ref> According to Genesis, God created the firmament to separate the "waters above" the earth from those below: "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|1:6|KJV}}</ref> The word is anglicized from Latin ''firmamentum'', which appears in the [[Vulgate]]. This, in turn, is a Latinization of the Greek ''stereoma'', used in the Septuagint.
Pre-scientific peoples universally believed that the sky was a solid dome. "Firm is the sky and firm is the earth," according the ''Rig Veda,'' an Indian scripture.<ref name="Mesopotamia">"[http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/01-Genesis/Text/Articles-Books/Seely-Firmament-WTJ.pdf The Firmament and the Water Above]", Westminster Theological Journal, 53 (1991), 232–233.</ref>
[[Augustine]] wrote that too much learning had been expended speculating on the nature of the firmament.<ref name="Grant">Grant, Edward, ''Planets, stars, and orbs: the medieval cosmos, 1200-1687''. p. 335.</ref> [[John Calvin]] proposed that firmament be interpreted as clouds. But he did not commit himself to a naturalistic explanation: "As it became a theologian, [Moses] had to respect ''us'' rather than the stars."<ref name="Calvin">Calvin, comment on verse 1:15.</ref>
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