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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt:...seeond day." The work of creation described here is still preparatory: and a complete inversion and explosion of the 'Nebular hypothesis," past, present, and future. The prophet Isaiah informs us how God not only created the heavens (HASHAMAY1M) of Gen. 1:1; but that He also "framed" (Heb. YATSAK--fashioned) the earth (HAAEETS) of Gen. 1:1; not to' remain "waste" (THOHU--desolateness) of Gen. 1:2, rather "to be inhabited." (3) In order to reach the destined end and object of the earth's creation; what does God command the elements shrouding the earth to do, and how does 1. "The Hebrew RAKIYA, from RAKA (to stretch, to spread out), means properly an extension, an expanse. This is the translation adopted by Benisch, Kalisch, Delitzsch, Keil and Lange. After heat and light, the next creative formation is an atmosphere, with its auroral light and a cloudy canopy."--Theistte Coneeption of the World, p. 153. 2. It was as though God had said: "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the vapors, and let it be a division of vapors from vapors." 3. Im. 45:18. the "light," as the agent of God, help to effect it? (1) Job furnishes us with the answer, when he says: "The foundations of the earth" and "the measures thereof" stored away originally in the "circle"--encompassing rings of the earth were finally to be fastened." God "shut up the sea with doors" by the agency of the light, and thus effected the firmamental divisions, so that 'a firmament in the midst of the waters" might appear; the decreed--"set bars and doors" which separate--"divide the waters from the waters," and therefore well could say: "Hitherto shalt thou come...