...remarkable for this melody; " In the begin" ning, God created the heavens and the earth ; " and the earth was without form, and void ; and " darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the ** Spirit of God moved upon the face of the " waters." Several other paffages, particularly...

...edit. Timol. p. 57. Procl. in Tim. giG. Acad. Yen. 1558. defcribes this in the following manner : The earth was without form, and -void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the "waters. Anaxagoras, as Laertius informs us, began...

...read the Scriptures without great profit. By way of example take that paffage, Gen. i. 2, " And the earth was " without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the " deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the' waters." Here we may thus meditate: "How wonderfully...

...J ir A V 6. and 136. 1 ' . •) IN .* the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darknefs was upon the face of the ' ftars alfo. ; 17 And God fet them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: 1...

...creation to the fiat of the Almighty. In the beginning Ged created the Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of thd deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God faid, let there be light,...

...bf-whieh Sanchonktho fpeaks, is evi'dentlj borf6we4"ftbm Gfn;:lf ^ -" The earth "was «lj'-- " without " ^without form, and void ; and darknefs was upon " the face of the deep." Bochart obferves, that tftSuSit, the word ufed by the tranflator of Sanchoniatho to exprefs the obfcurity...