The creative week: a secular exposition of the Mosaic record of Creation [the Book of Genesis] by the author of 'Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil' and other works1856 |
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... human epoch ; and that all the great geological changes and revolutions of which our globe has been the theatre ... human period , and the preparation , in particu- lar , of the world to be the abode of 4 THE CREATIVE WEEK .
... human epoch ; and that all the great geological changes and revolutions of which our globe has been the theatre ... human period , and the preparation , in particu- lar , of the world to be the abode of 4 THE CREATIVE WEEK .
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... period ends with the fifth day of the Record , and the sixth or human period be- gins with the sixth day . As the men of this class be- lieve that the five by - gone geological periods began to run their course from and after the ...
... period ends with the fifth day of the Record , and the sixth or human period be- gins with the sixth day . As the men of this class be- lieve that the five by - gone geological periods began to run their course from and after the ...
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... human period , but is an introduction or preface pointing forward to the things to be immediately described , and moreover contains a brief summary of the six days , and the six days ' work narrated in the body of the chapter ; that the ...
... human period , but is an introduction or preface pointing forward to the things to be immediately described , and moreover contains a brief summary of the six days , and the six days ' work narrated in the body of the chapter ; that the ...
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... human period began ; whilst the fourth party , the ex nihilo men , make the creative week the time when the earth was called into existence out of nothing . But the three first parties agree only in assigning a distant date in the past ...
... human period began ; whilst the fourth party , the ex nihilo men , make the creative week the time when the earth was called into existence out of nothing . But the three first parties agree only in assigning a distant date in the past ...
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... human period begins . A few short quotations may here be given , simply to show how the a priori men speak of the beginning , " and the long period they suppose mplied in verse first : - 66 My own opinion , " says Dr Chalmers , " is ...
... human period begins . A few short quotations may here be given , simply to show how the a priori men speak of the beginning , " and the long period they suppose mplied in verse first : - 66 My own opinion , " says Dr Chalmers , " is ...
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Page 361 - Let people serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 383 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 197 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 321 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 266 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 269 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 200 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 259 - Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, And fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind; Whose seed is in herself upon the earth.
Page 266 - Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
Page 318 - Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...