Note 1193 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

461Otia imper., vol. i, p. 892. Gervase, loc. cit., gives the following proof that there is as much land to the east as there is to the west of Jerusalem: “Unde tradunt, tantam terram a Jerusalem protendi ad Orientem, quantam ad Occidentem, quod probant ex eo, quod legitur: ‘Deus ab austro veniet et sanctus de monte Pharaan’ [Habakkuk, iii, 3]. Auster enim et Aquilo, qui pro Borea scribitur, ut ibi: ‘ab Aquilone pandetur omne malum.’ Et alibi: ‘Ponam sedem meam ab aquilone, & ero similis altissimo.’ Per contrapositionem oppositi per effectum, & locorum distantiam objecti, aequaliter distant a centro, quod est inter Orientem et Occidentem.” See below, p. 463, note 38.