Note 222 — Chapter II · THE CONTRIBUTION OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BEFORE 1100 A. D.
Reading edition
From the King James version. One form of the Vulgate reads: “Qui sedet super gyrum terrae, et habitatores eius sunt quasi locustae: qui extendit velut nihilum caelos, et expandit eos sicut tabernaculum ad inhabitandum.” The last phrase reads in another form used by the Church Fathers: “qui statuit velut fornicem coelum, et extendit velut tentorium” (Marinelli, Scritti minori, vol. i, [1908?], p. 326, note 2). The King James version renders the spirit of the Latin more accurately than the Douay and Rheims version, in which the word gyrum is translated “globe.”