 | Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 574 pagini
...Word: therefore he was before all creatures. The Arian construction, as this gentleman represents itP, is, " IN " THE BEGINNING, when God created the heavens and " the earth." Now if heaven and earth are words which signify all creatures, we admit the exposition : but if they... | |
 | Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 574 pagini
...: therefore he was before all creatures. The Arian construction, as this gentleman represents itP, is, " IN " THE BEGINNING, when God created the heavens and " the earth." Now if heaven and earth are words which signify all creatures, we admit the exposition : but if they... | |
 | Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - 1843 - 734 pagini
...Word : therefore he was before all creatures. The Arian construction, as this gentleman represents if, is, " IN " THE BEGINNING, when God created the heavens and the earth.'" n Sober and Charitable Disquisi- fence, vol. i. and ii. Query v. tion, p. 54. P Sober and Charitable... | |
 | William Graeme Rhind - 1844 - 456 pagini
...are the same, and demand this translation ; by which the simple idea presented to the mind is, that in the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a desolate and dark sphere of waters, (for there is no account given subsequently of its being formed... | |
 | William Graeme Rhind - 1855 - 384 pagini
...are the same, and demand this translation ; by which the simple idea presented to the mind is, that in the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a desolate and dark sphere of waters, (for there is no account given subsequently of its being formed... | |
 | Robert Jefferson Breckinridge - 1858 - 648 pagini
...pervert this most precious and fundamental truth. 3. The Book of Genesis opens with the declaration, that in the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the Spirit of God brooded upon the face of the creation.' And the Book of Revelation closes with the invitation... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1861 - 790 pagini
...principle. According to the Genesis of the Scriptures, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth. The analogy is interesting; but the contrast is also striking. ciated Tethys, the all-mother, as he is... | |
 | Rev. C.H. Spurgeon - 1863 - 830 pagini
...made the earth and the heavens; perhaps during those long periods when the earth was a-forming — " In the beginning," when " God created the heavens and the earth," the angels were wont to visit this world, and to behold alive and in their glory those strange shapes of... | |
 | 1881 - 676 pagini
...those which follow has been much debated. The proposal of Aben Ezra, adopted by Calvin, to read, " In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was . . . .," is grammatically inadmissible. Equally objectionable on the ground of grammar is the suggestion... | |
 | Andrew Bruce Davidson - 1904 - 536 pagini
...Spirit of God brooded upon the face of the waters." Others make the connection somewhat different : " In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was without form," etc. At all events, the representation of Scripture is that the newly-created world... | |
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In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light; 
