Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 10:12
A church father on this verse
“The prophet of God, having taken up as it were three excellences of His—His strength, His wisdom, and His understanding—assigns to each of them a work proper to it: to the strength the earth, to the wisdom the inhabited world, and to the understanding the heaven. For listen to the passage as it says: "The Lord who mad…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,
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11Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
— Jeremiah 10:12 —
13and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.
14Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.