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Thursday, July 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9 ). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Joshua 2:15; 2 co 11:33 ). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Genesis 7:11; Malachi 3:10 ). The word thus rendered in Isaiah 54:12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" RSV, "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.

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Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Window'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ebd/​w/window.html. 1897.
 
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