We will now call attention to certain matters that require more space than we could give to them in a running criticism. The ancient Israelites believed that the earth was stationary and that the stars moved. They did not know the difference between the planets and fixed stars. Inspiration among the Israelites never revealed to them scientific facts. On page 286 of the Book of Mormon, Alma a Nephite nearly 2000 years before Copernicus says "The earth and its motion and the planets which move in their regular form declare there is a God," a prose adaptation of Addison's hymn. Page 410 the language of the Hebrew poet in the Book of Jasher quoted in Joshua is thus commented and explained. "If the Lord say to the earth thou "shalt go back that it lengthen out the day, we know that it is done, and thus according to his word the earth goeth back and it appeareth to men that the sun standeth still, yea and behold this is so far it is the earth that moveth and not the sun." It is wonderful how much more than their brethren in Palestine Sidney's Nephites and Jaredites always knew. Had the Israelite poet been one of Rigdon's poets he would not have represented Joshua as commanding the sun to stand. No he would have expressed himself in the most approved phraseology of modern science although his language would have been regarded as idiotic falsehood by his readers.