...the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. "Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than...

...middle of our hemisphere (see Purg. ii, i-3)In Ezekiel (v, 5) we read : " Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." Dante imagines the Mountain of Purgatory to be on an island...

...middle of the world, ' the mediaeval Greenwich,' is based on Ezek. 5. 5 : ' Thus saith the Lord God : This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations.' The idea is familiar to Dante, who places the mountain of Purgatory at the antipodes of Jerusalem....

...middle of the world, ' the mediaeval Greenwich,' is based on Ezek. 5. 5 : ' Thus saith the Lord God : This is Jerusalem. I have set it in the midst of the nations.' The idea is familiar to Dante, who places the mountain of Purgatory at the antipodes of Jerusalem....

...exact centre of the land, midway between Gibraltar and Ganges, is Jerusalem. ' Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her' (Ezekiel v, 5). Half-way between Gibraltar and Jerusalem, in...

...exact centre of the land, midway between Gibraltar and Ganges, is Jerusalem. ' Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her' (Ezekiel v, 5)- Half-way between Gibraltar and Jerusalem, in...

...very often seriously misunderstood. To quote a single example : when it is said in Ezekiel v. 5, " This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations . . . round about her," this was not taken by the mediaeval monks, who were the chief geographers of the period, as a poetical...

...doubtless given this important place in his system by the author to accord with the scriptural statement, " This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries round about her." Islands are represented in the encircling ocean, conspicuously Great...

...do after your lewdness " (Ezek. 23:48). Moreover, after speaking of Jerusalem as follows, saying, " of eyes within, and they rest not day and night, saying, Ho (women) and countries that are round about her and she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more...

...Midway between is Jerusalem, the sacred city, as stated in Ezekiel v, 5: "Thus saith the Lord God, this is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her." There, in 1102, was pointed out the navel of the earth —...