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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... land , till sea and land would be blended together , and the whole globe become an uninhabitable mass of disorder , confusion , and death , such as never had any existence save in the wild and wayward imaginations of men . But the ex ...
... land , till sea and land would be blended together , and the whole globe become an uninhabitable mass of disorder , confusion , and death , such as never had any existence save in the wild and wayward imaginations of men . But the ex ...
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... petrifactions were liv- * Our plants , our fishes , our birds , our land ani- mals , greatly exceed those of former periods in both number and variety . C ing trees , which proves that the work of petrifaction tc 333 THE EARTH .
... petrifactions were liv- * Our plants , our fishes , our birds , our land ani- mals , greatly exceed those of former periods in both number and variety . C ing trees , which proves that the work of petrifaction tc 333 THE EARTH .
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... land earth . " The proper acceptation of " earth , " then , is the compact matter of our globe as opposed to the matter of it in a liquid state . Looking along the surface we see nothing but earth and water , or sea and dry land . But ...
... land earth . " The proper acceptation of " earth , " then , is the compact matter of our globe as opposed to the matter of it in a liquid state . Looking along the surface we see nothing but earth and water , or sea and dry land . But ...
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... land appear . " The dry land here is the territory to which God applied the term " earth " as soon as the waters of the flood had left it dry , and which was planted the same day . Ver . 11. " And God said : Let the earth bring forth ...
... land appear . " The dry land here is the territory to which God applied the term " earth " as soon as the waters of the flood had left it dry , and which was planted the same day . Ver . 11. " And God said : Let the earth bring forth ...
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... land of the globe , as op- posed to the waters ; and twice by a figure of speech it denotes the whole terraqueous globe . But “ the earth " never has a more extended acceptation in any part of the Scriptures . It is a most unwarrantable ...
... land of the globe , as op- posed to the waters ; and twice by a figure of speech it denotes the whole terraqueous globe . But “ the earth " never has a more extended acceptation in any part of the Scriptures . It is a most unwarrantable ...
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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...