[283] St. Matth. xxiv. 29.
[284] Job ix. 5-7.
[285] Ps. x.x.xiii. 9.
[286] Gen. i. 4.
[287] "Can any one sensible of the value of words suppose," (asks Mr.
Goodwin,) "that nothing more is here described, or intended to be described, than _the partial clearing away of a fog_?" (_Essays and Reviews_, pp. 227-8.) No one,--we answer. But to the question, we venture to rejoin another. To _whom_ does this philosopher suppose his pleasantry likely to prove injurious? Is he making Moses ridiculous, or--himself?
[288] St. John ix. 5, &c.
[289] 1 Tim. vi. 16.
[290] 2 Cor. iv. 6.
[291] "Whether the writer regarded them as already existing, and only waiting to have a proper place a.s.signed them, may be open to question."
(_E. and R._, p. 221.) We accept the alternative given us by Mr.
Goodwin.
[292] Job x.x.xviii. 7.
[293] Alluding to 1 Kings vii. 21.
[294] The test of _Elohim_ and _Jehovah_ has been, by the Germans themselves, given up; "and for this plain reason,--that in many parts of Genesis, [e.g. ch. xxviii. 16-22: x.x.xi.: x.x.xix., &c.] it is utterly untenable; the names being so intermingled as to admit of no such division." See the Appendix (C) to the Rev. Henry John Rose"s _Hulsean Lectures_ for 1833,--p. 233.
[295] Besides in Gen. i. 2, the expression (_tohu bohu_) recurs in Jer.
iv. 23 and Is. x.x.xiv. 11,--both times with clear reference to the earlier place. Jeremiah in fact _quotes_ Genesis.
[296] _Eccl. Pol._, B. I. c. iii. -- 2.
[297] Ps. cxlviii. 5, 6.
[298] South"s _Sermons_, (Serm. II.)
[299] See St. Matth. xix. 4 to 6,--where Gen. i. 27 as well as Gen. ii.
24, are quoted by our SAVIOUR.
[300] "Holding," (says Hugh Miller,) "that the _six_ days of the Mosaic account were not natural days, but lengthened periods, I find myself called on, as a geologist, to account for but three out of the six. Of the period during which light was created; of the period during which a firmament was made to separate the waters from the waters; or of the period during which the two great lights of the earth, with the other heavenly bodies, became visible from the Earth"s surface;--we need expect to find no record in the rocks."--_Testimony_, &c., p. 134.--This is ingenious, and is piously meant. But the first three days remain to be accounted for _by somebody_, all the same. If the last three days represent "lengthened periods," so, I suppose, do the _first_ three.
[301] Exod. xx. 11.
[302] _Essays and Reviews_, p. 252.
[303] _Ibid._
[304] _Id._ p. 253.
[305] _Id._ p. 252.
[306] Pattison"s _The Earth and the World_, p. 99.
[307] Col. ii. 3.
[308] Josh. x. 12.
[309] Prov. iii. 20.
[310] St. John iii. 8.
[311] St. John iii. 5.
[312] St. Matth. xxvi. 26.
[313] St. John viii. 58.
[314] St. John x. 30.
[315] Ps. xciv. 9.
[316] On this subject, the reader is referred to Serm. VII.
[317] Ps. xcii. 4.
[318] Cowper.
[319] Eph. iii. 18.
[320] This paragraph is mostly copied from a Sermon (MS.) preached before the University by the late Professor Hussey, Oct. 12, 1856.
[321] Professor Phillips refers me to a paper by Mr. Prestwich in the _Proceedings of the Royal Society_, 1859, vol. x. No. 35, p. 58. Also in the _Transactions of the R. S._ for 1860, p. 308.
[322] I allude to the supposed disclosures of Egyptian monuments.
[323] I allude to a recent work on the Origin of Species.
[324] The reader is requested to read what Bishop Pearson has most eloquently written on this subject. It will be found in the Appendix (B).
[325] 1 Cor. xv. 47.
[326] Ibid. xv. 22, &c.
[327] ??st?? _does not occur once_ in St. John"s Gospel: p?ste??
(which is found about thirty-five times, in all, in the first three Gospels,) occurs about _one hundred times_, in the Gospel of St. John alone.
[328] St. Luke xxiii. 46, (quoting Ps. x.x.xi. 5:) words which are alluded to in 1 St. Pet. iv. 19.
[329] Ps. cxlvi. 5,--words quoted by the early Church of Jerusalem, Acts iv. 24.