Article November 27, 1971 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermon for December 5, 1971, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: God the Only Cause and Creator

Who hath ... meted out heaven with the span (Isa. 40:12)

"Mete" is an obsolete English word for "measure." The word "span" refers to the distance from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger of the spread hand. Hence it implies a method of measurement.

Nathan (II Sam. 7:4)

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