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4302 — SUN STANDING STILL

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 17.

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4302 — SUN STANDING STILL

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Please explain Joshua 10: 12, 13. Is it not understood that the sun is stationary and the earth revolves? B. H.
It is true that the earth journeys around the sun, and also revolves upon its imaginary axis at the same time; but the text represents them as they appeared. In the Bible, things are often expressed in the language of appearances rather than as they actually existed. This was nothing more than following the ordinary laws that have always governed the use of language in all times, the same as we now speak of the sun rising and setting, yet while we say this, we have in mind the real fact.