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...is.........which [are]...upon...the....earth.


I have a problem with this.

You say it means literally "ON the earth", yet in other cases "on the earth" means any thing a person can see; ie in the tree tops.

It smacks of picking and choosing what "on {upon} the earth" you want to mean, to me.



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