Citations:firmament
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English citations of firmament
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- (uncountable, literary, poetic) The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 11:
- There are Crowns of Glory to be given us; and Garments that will make us ſhine like the Sun in the Firmament of Heaven. [2 Tim. 4:8; Rev. 3:4; Matt. 13:43]