...face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. And God saw the light,...called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." In following out this detail, we are presented, after the elemental creation of the...

...Light that it is good. AND GOD DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS. 5. AND GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY, AND THE DARKNESS HE CALLED NIGHT. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY. All-pervading as is the heavenly light, in its own nature, it does not, as we too plainly...

...inspiration : — " And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. " And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. " And God saw the light...called night : and the evening and the morning were the first day." On this day, therefore, in the natural world, God commenced the great work of creation,...

...not from day to night; this is in accordance with the cosmogony of Moses, Genesis ch. i. 4, 5, "And God divided the light from the darkness, and God called...evening and the morning were the first day •" and the lingering traces of this primaeval custom yet remain amongst us, in the familiar colloquial expressions...

...years in taking place. ' But now we come to the period of the earliest date. "God called the light day, and the darkness he called night ; and the evening and the morning were the first day ;" ie the first rotation of the earth was accomplished ; and as the 21 VoL. x. — No....

...First Day. — " And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. And God saw the light,...called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Gen. i. 2 — 5.) On the first clause of this passage, we observe, that it confirms...

...face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light,...called Night ; and the evening and the morning were the first day." Thus the Book of Genesis opens with this beautiful description of the natural change,...

...its axis of the earth. Of this ever memorable event, it then is with truth so graphically said, " And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called...called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." These last words need now no longer be explained in a general, halffigurative sense,...

...WAI tBTTiNO. the day tear from evening tt evening .•— Ge. \. 5, ' And God called the light Day, g to nothing the first day [Heb. and the evening irat, and the morning IMH]. tee ' Scripture II lustrations.' 41....

...has reference to it. The following are the words of inspiration : — " And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. And God saw the light,...called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."* In contemplating these simple and sublime words, several important truths present...