EXPOSITION I. THAT this initial section is not _history _is apparent from the circumstance that the occurrences it describes belong to a period of time which antedates the dawn of history. That it is not _science_ is evinced by the fact that, in some, at least, of its particulars, it refers to a con... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:6 _Day_ _two_._ _The work of this day consisted in the formation of that immense gaseous ocean, called the atmosphere, by which the earth is encircled. AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE A FIRMAMENT (_rakiya_,_ _an expand, from _rakah_,_ _to beat out; LXX; στερεìωμα;_ _Vulgate, _firmam... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:9 _Day three_._ _The distribution of land and water and the production of vegetation on this day engaged the formative energy of the word of Elohim. AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS UNDER HEAVEN BE GATHERED TOGETHER INTO ONE PLACE, AND LET THE DRY LAND APPEAR. To explain the second... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:14, GENESIS 1:15 _Day four_._ _With this day begins the second half of the creative week, whose works have a striking correspondence with the labors of the first. Having perfected the main structural arrangements of the globe by the elimination from primeval chaos of the four f... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:20 DAY FIVE. The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this filled with their respective inhabitants. AND GOD SAID. Nature never makes an onward movement, in the sense of an absolutely new departure, unless under the impulse of the word of Elohim. These words... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION GENESIS 1:21 _Day_ _six_._ _Like day three, this is distinguished by a double creative act, the production of the higher or land animals and the creation of man, of the latter of which it is perhaps permissible to see a mute prediction in the vegetation which closed the first half of the... [ Continue Reading ]