For he&c. HE is emphatic. It is HE and no other who laid the foundation of the world (Psalms 104:5; Job 38:4). The land rising out of the water is supposed to rest upon it. Cp. Psalms 136:6; and the idea of the subterranean abyss of waters in Genesis 7:11; and "the water under the earth" in Exodus 20:4. It is a popular or poetic conception derived from phenomena; yet possibly the idea that the earth was firmly fixed upon such a foundation suggested the Creator's power much in the same way as the suspension and motion of the earth in space may do to us.

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