Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 1:6
A church father on this verse
“"It goes to the South and rotates to the North; turning, revolving, the wind goes and returns upon its circuits." From this we are able to believe that the sun approaches the meridian quarter in the time of winter, and in the summer is near to the Great Bear, and does not commence its movements in the equinox of autum…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Arising there it proceeds southward, And goes round toward the north. The wind goes round and round, And the wind returns to its circuits.
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4A generation goes, and a generation comes: But the earth stands forever.
5And the sun arises, and the sun goes down And draws toward its place;
— Ecclesiastes 1:6 —
7All the rivers run into the sea; And yet the sea is not filled: To the place whence the rivers come, Thither they return again.
8All things are full of labor; A man will not be able to speak of them: Neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, Neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.