...first of the six days. It is therefore expressly stated, in the " second verse, that the earth was without form and void, and "darkness was on the face of the waters. How long it remained "in this state, whether for years, or for hundreds and thousands " of...

...waiters Bo-ly read-ing God made all things of nothing, in the space of six days. The earth was at first without form, and void ; and darkness was on the face of the deep. Then God said, Let there be light ; and there was light : this was the work of the first day. On the...

...the sacred historian so laconically, but emphatically describes, when he says, that " the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." It would be inconsistent with my plan to enter, with any minuteness, into a detail of the arguments...

...Chaos, or perhaps the 'f^s T*jT*jof of the Greeks, on this the Spirit of God moved, ' The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters;' at length it was his divine will to assume...

...beginning," says the sacred historian, " God created the heaven and the earth. And the u2 earth was without form and void: and darkness was on the face of the deep (or abyss.) — And the Spirit of God moved uponihe face of the waters."* We are hence, therefore,...

...employed. " He spake ; and it was donc: he commanded; and it stood fiist. The earth, was at first v, ithout form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep." The Almighty surveyed the dark abyss; and fixed bounds to the several divisions of nature. He said,...

...shall be solved. "Thus we know that ' in the beginning, when God created the Heaven and the Earth, when the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters,' the naked rock alone rose from the abyss; that...

...with the falling slide : In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was on the face of the deep : and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Look through all the ranks of mankind; examine...

...light, as a mere arrangement of pre-existent though confused materials.™ Verte 2 : " And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." " I do not eighth verse is the heaven in which better pictured heaven to us, than are the planets,...

...For example, we are informed in the first chapter of Genesis, that " in the beginning, the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." And it is related by Berosus, that the ancient Chaldeans maintained, that in the beginning, all things...