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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... remarks respecting the style in which the narrative of creation is written . Dr P. Smith calls it " a description ( couched ) in ex- pressions adapted to the ideas of mankind in the ear- liest ages . " What Dr Smith and some others see ...
... remarks respecting the style in which the narrative of creation is written . Dr P. Smith calls it " a description ( couched ) in ex- pressions adapted to the ideas of mankind in the ear- liest ages . " What Dr Smith and some others see ...
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... remarks may suffice to explain the nature of the acts expressed by " create , " make , " form , " , " in the Record ; the reader will find more said in illustration of these terms in the sequel . 66 66 " In the beginning . " The word ...
... remarks may suffice to explain the nature of the acts expressed by " create , " make , " form , " , " in the Record ; the reader will find more said in illustration of these terms in the sequel . 66 66 " In the beginning . " The word ...
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... remark , that in the original Hebrew the word corresponding to " heaven " is in the plural number— shamayim ; but our translators , with judicious atten- tion to the differences of idiom between the two lan- guages , have given a ...
... remark , that in the original Hebrew the word corresponding to " heaven " is in the plural number— shamayim ; but our translators , with judicious atten- tion to the differences of idiom between the two lan- guages , have given a ...
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... remarks . No two leaves on the same tree , no two blades of grass in the same field , are in every respect identical . If dissimilarities obtain on such a small scale as a leaf , or a blade of grass , may we not con- clude that they ...
... remarks . No two leaves on the same tree , no two blades of grass in the same field , are in every respect identical . If dissimilarities obtain on such a small scale as a leaf , or a blade of grass , may we not con- clude that they ...
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... remark are as blame - worthy as the ex nihilo men - the conduct of both tends to dishonour God . II . Matter in a gaseous state . — If we are conscious of incapacity in trying to form an idea of the extent of space the matter of the ...
... remark are as blame - worthy as the ex nihilo men - the conduct of both tends to dishonour God . II . Matter in a gaseous state . — If we are conscious of incapacity in trying to form an idea of the extent of space the matter of the ...
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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...