| William Weldon Champneys - 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,... | |
| Joseph Frederick Berg - 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 without... | |
| 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... | |
| Joseph Baylee - 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
...six days ; and that man was made 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... | |
| Hollis Read - 1859 - 420 pages
...have been the condition of our earth when first brought to notice by the sacred historian. It "was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." Yet it was probably as well fitted then as it is now to act its destined part as a planet in the great... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pages
...once' will aid me again'. 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' : and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters'. NOTE. — But when strong emphasis, with the... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pages
...will aid me again * . 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 * : and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters * . "NOTE.—But when strong emphasis, with the... | |
| François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - 1860 - 168 pages
...so that it might become afterwards the blessed abode of mankind. " And the earth," it is said, " was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." We saw last Lord's day, when we explained the beginning, in which God created the heaven and the earth,... | |
| William Reid (M.A.) - 1860 - 502 pages
...surely an evidence of Divine teaching. Up to the time of her being stricken last summer, her mind was " without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep ; " but the Spirit of God had moved on the face of the waters, and beauty arose out of that mental... | |
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