Related%20passage for Pesachim 187:13

ת"ש דאמר ר' יוחנן בן זכאי מה תשובה השיבתו בת קול לאותו רשע בשעה שאמר (ישעיהו יד, יד) אעלה על במתי עב אדמה לעליון יצתה בת קול ואמרה לו רשע בן רשע

[taught]: R'Nathan said: The whole of the inhabited world is situate under one star. The proof is that a man looks at a star, [and] when he goes eastward it is opposites [and when he goes] to the four corners of the world it is opposite him. This proves that the whole of the inhabited world is situate under one star. This is indeed a refutation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And since there are countless stars in the sky, it follows that the sky is immeasurably greater than the earth, not, as Raba says, only one sixth.');">¹⁷</span> Come and hear: The Wain ['Waggon']<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Great Bear.');">¹⁸</span> is in the north and Scorpio is in the south, the whole of the inhabited world lies between the Wain and Scorpio, and the whole of the inhabited world represents but one hour of the day,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The sun in travelling through the sky takes one hour only to travel across the actual breadth of the world.');">¹⁹</span> for the sun enters [the space above] the inhabited world only for one hour in the day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As explained in the previous note.');">²⁰</span> The proof is that at the fifth [hour] the sun is in the east while at the seventh the sun is in the west [during] half of the sixth and half of the seventh the sun stands overhead all people.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' " wherever="" they="" are;="" thus="" it="" is="" during="" this="" hour="" only="" that="" the="" sun="" actually="" above="" world.="" too="" proves="" sky="" infinitely="" larger="" than="" earth.');"="">²¹</span> This is [indeed] a refutation. Come and hear: For R'Johanan B'Zakkai said: What answer did the Bath Kol<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos.');">²²</span> give that wicked man [Nebuchadnezzar] when he asserted, 'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XIV, 14.');">²³</span> A Bath Kol came forth and rebuked him: 'Thou wicked man, son of a wicked man,

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