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The Book of Genesis for the Use of Candidates for the Cambridge Local Examinations, With Analysis and Notes by H. Morris
The Book of Genesis for the Use of Candidates for the Cambridge Local Examinations With Analysis and Notes by H Morris Author:Henry Morris General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: NOTES. 1. 1. The book of Genesis, as well as the collected volume of Scripture, commences with the great fact that the one true God created the heaven and the earth. This is the kej-note of the whole Bible. There is one God, and all things were created by Him and belong to Him. -- Col. i. 16. In the beginning.] Compare the commencement of the Gospel according to St. John. 2. Without form and void.] These words express utter desolation. They are used in Jer. iv. 23, to describe the condition of a wasted country. Moved.] ' Fluttered,' ' hovered over,' ' brooded.' The same word is used in Deut. xxxii. 11, to represent an eagle hovering over its young to protect them. 3. Longinus, a Greek writer, in his treatise ' On the Sublime,' mentions this verse as an instance of exquisite sublimity. 5. And the evening and the morning were the"first day. ] Literally translated this passage would be, ' It was evening and it was morning -- one day.' The Jews reckon their days from sunset to sunset. Observe that the work of each day begins with the phrase ' And God said,' and ends with the refrain ' And the evening and the morning were.' 6. A firmament.] Properly, ' an expanse.' 14. Lights.] Rather, ' light bearers' or ' luminaries.' Light had been previously created or made to appear, and the heavenly bodies were designed to reflect and transmit the light. The word used here is different from that employed in the third verse, and is used for a ' lamp' or ' candelabrum' in Ex. xxv. 6 and Num. iv. 9. 20. Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature.] In the original the verb here rendered ' bring fo...« less