Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...bodies. On the fourth day, our observer notices them, and they become dividers of time and regulators of seasons. All this is in accord-ance with science, which tells us that the earth is older than the sun, and that there must have been light before the sun was condensed into its present form. Fifth Day. Let us look here at the literal translation supplied, apart from any geological theory by a Hebrew scholar, Dr. Murphy, in his "Commentary on Genesis," chap. i. 20. "Then said God, Let the waters abound with the crawler that has breath and life, and let fowl fly above the earth upon the face of the expanse of the skies. Then God created the great fishes and every living breathing thing that creepeth, with which the waters abounded after their kind, and every bird of wing after its kind; then saw God that it was good. Then blessed them God, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the land. Then was evening, then was morning, day fifth." God here calls forth creatures that have breath, soul,--the psyche of Aristotle. He calls forth swarming crawling creatures in the waters, creatures with wings to fly above the earth. As this decree is executed, there come forth, as Dr. Murphy explains, "long creatures, a comprehensive genus, including vast fishes, serpents, dragons, crocodiles," the root of the word being stretch. There appear, also, "the breathing thing that creepeth," and creatures with wings. Sixth Day. "Then said God, Let the land bring forth living breathing thing after its kind, cattle, and creeper, and beast of the land after its kind. Then made God the beast of the land after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every...
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