 | Beautiful garment - Fall of man - 1850 - 164 pages
...creatures now dwell ! — No preparatory measures * Bwlght. were required. No long circuit of means was employed. ' He spake ; and it was done : He commanded; and it stood fast. The earth was without form and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." The Almighty surveyed the dark... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - Force and energy - 1851 - 340 pages
...from a natural cause, from the e very-day phenomena of nature. We refer to the time when the earth was without form and void , and darkness was on the face of the deep, when the spirit of God moved on the face of the water, and it was said. Let there ho light, and the... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Weldon Champneys - Bible - 1852 - 118 pages
...What a mass of stagnation and sin, the world would be without the Gospel — just as the earth was, " without form, and void," and darkness was on the face of the deep, "before the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." But when the leaven is put into the meal,... | |
 | Oxoniensis pseud - 1852 - 92 pages
...the words of Scripture. " 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." Gen. i. 1. 5 " Eude, crude incongruous mass." " Eudis indigestaque moles." 6 " Look'd sneeringly Indignant... | |
 | Joseph Frederick Berg - Bible - 1854 - 274 pages
...earth." Will he be good enough to tell us when this beginning was? [Loud applause.] "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." Will he tell us how long the earth was... | |
 | Creative week - 1856 - 414 pages
...how far its import in thorn agrees with the definition given in verse 10. Ver. 2. " And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." There is a peculiarity here in the relative situation of " the earth" and " the deep," which the reader... | |
 | George W. Henry - Marriage - 1856 - 486 pages
...were created at the time, and for the purpose to which they were applied. But all was yet formless and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. The earth was as yet like an unmoulded lump of clay cast from the wheel of the potter, and floating like... | |
 | Joseph Baylee - Bible and geology - 1857 - 222 pages
...translation are beautifully simple, precise, and conclusive in their obvious meaning:—"And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." Most people would accept this as a perfect delineation of a newly-created world. I ask any sensible... | |
 | F. G. S. - 1858 - 116 pages
...out of the dust of the ground. We are most distinctly told that at " the beginning" " 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 " waters " and the surrounding element appear... | |
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The earth was at first without form, and void ; and darkness was on the face of the deep. 
