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Since those who wrote about the world speculated a lot about the figure of the earth, whether it is a ball, or a cylinder, or like a circle, equally turned on all sides, or like a tray with a depression in the middle (for those who wrote about the world resorted to all these assumptions, and each of them refuted the assumption of the other), then I still do not agree to recognize our story about peacemaking as worthy of less respect solely because the servant of God Moses did not reason about the figures, he did not say that the circumference of the earth has one hundred and eighty thousand stadia, he did not measure how far the earth's shadow extends in the air when the sun goes underground, and how this shadow, falling on the moon, produces eclipses. If he kept silent about things that did not concern us, as if they were useless, then are the words of the Spirit really of less importance for this than foolish wisdom? Shall I not even more glorify the One who did not burden our minds with empty objects, but arranged it so that everything was written for the edification and perfection of our souls? (2) You might be interested in: