The promise of constancy, or stability, of Gen. 8:22
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 12:02 am
We have read today:
עד כל ימי הארץ זרע וקציר וקר וחם וקיץ וחרף ויום ולילה לא ישבתו
KJV: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease"
which includes, inter alia, this remarkably comforting assertion that the gravitational force, created on day three, is exactly calibrated by the divine wisdom so as to keep the earth moving in a stable closed curve, thus preventing it, even under the action of an external nudge, from a catastrophic spiraling toward the sun or away from it.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
עד כל ימי הארץ זרע וקציר וקר וחם וקיץ וחרף ויום ולילה לא ישבתו
KJV: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease"
which includes, inter alia, this remarkably comforting assertion that the gravitational force, created on day three, is exactly calibrated by the divine wisdom so as to keep the earth moving in a stable closed curve, thus preventing it, even under the action of an external nudge, from a catastrophic spiraling toward the sun or away from it.
Isaac Fried, Boston University