 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1836 - 188 pages
...••• pray-er 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... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1839 - 276 pages
...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...and fixed bounds to the several divisions of nature. He said, "Let there be light; and there was light." Then appeared the sea, and the dry land. The mountains... | |
 | Biblicus Delvinus - Geology - 1839 - 130 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Bryce (D.D.) - 1839 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1840 - 632 pages
...existing on our globe, ".E're burst the first rich stream of light ,' From Chaos ' dreary night;— r're '-the Almighty surveyed the dark abyss, and fixed bounds to the several divisions of Nature." Do we choose to heighten the dismal picture already in the imagination, we may add the discoveries... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - Bible and geology - 1840 - 328 pages
..."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... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...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... | |
 | Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - Bible - 1842 - 524 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...many millions of creatures now dwell ! No preparatory measures were required. No long circuit of means was employed. He spake, and it was done, he commanded,...at first without form and void : and darkness was upon the face of the deep. The Almighty surveyed the dark abyss ; and fixed bounds to the several divisions... | |
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The earth was at first without form, and void ; and darkness was on the face of the deep. 
