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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+4%3A6&version=KJV Revelation 4:6] || And '''before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal'''. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind:
 
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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%3A5&version=KJV Ecclesiastes 1:5] || The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
 
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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch%2C_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|2 Enoch]] (The Luminaries) 2:67 || As for the twelve '''portals in the heaven at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars''', and all the works of heaven in the east and in the west.
 
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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch%2C_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|TESTAMENT OF SOLOMON]] 114 || I therefore, having heard this, glorified the Lord God, and again I questioned the demon, saying: "Tell me how ye can ascend into heaven, being demons, and amidst the stars and holy angels intermingle." And he answered: "Just as things are fulfilled in heaven, so also on earth they are fulfilled the types of all of them. For there are principalities, authorities, world-rulers, and we demons fly about in the air; and we hear the voices of the heavenly beings, and survey all the powers. And as having no ground (basis) on which to alight and rest, we lose strength and fall off like leaves from trees. And '''men seeing us imagine that the stars are falling from heaven'''. But it is not really so, O king; but we fall because of our weakness, and because we have nowhere anything to lay hold of; '''and so we fall down like lightnings in the depth of night and suddenly. And we set cities in flames and fire the fields. For the stars have firm foundations in the heavens like the sun and the moon'''."
 
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