2 Day and night accomplish the course assigned to them by Him, without hindrance one to another. (1CL) 3 The sun and the moon and the dancing stars according to His appointment circle in harmony within the bounds assigned to them, without any swerving aside. (1CL) 4 The earth, bearing fruit in fulfillment of His will at her proper seasons, putteth forth the food that supplieth abundantly both men and beasts and all living things which are thereupon, making no dissension, neither altering anything which He hath decreed. (1CL)
1 Clement 20:2–4
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