“God almighty set the rainbow as a sign between himself and humanity, indicating that he would never again destroy the world with a flood. And this is why the rainbow has the color of both water and fire—in part light blue and in part red—so that it might testify to both judgments, to the one that is to come and to the…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — ON ECCLESIASTICUS 9:7
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11Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.
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9The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.
10At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.
— Sirach 43:11 —
12It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.
13By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall aplace, and sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.