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der the line, and these interpreted the torrid Zone to be the flaming Sword whereby Paradise was guarded. 'Tis the consent of divers others, who agree in this, that Paradise is situated in some high and eminent place.^[1] So Testatus: Est etiam Paradisus situ altissima, supra omnem terræ altitudinem, "Paradise is situated in some high place above the earth: and therefore in his Cóment upon the 49. of Genesis, hee understands the blessing of Iacob concerning the everlasting hills to bee meant of Paradise, and the blessing it selfe to bee nothing else but a promise of Christs comming, by whose passion the gates of Paradise should bee opened. Unto him assented Rupertus, Scotus and most of the other Schoolemen, as I find them cited by Pererius^[2] and out of him in Sr. W. Rawleigh. Their reason was this: because in probability this place was not overflowed

1. In Genes.
2. Comment in 2. Gen. v.8 lib 1. cap 3. §67.