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... Psalm , which may be viewed as a poetical version of the narrative of creation in Genesis , the same great writer remarks : " We are astonished to find in a lyr- ical poem of such a limited compass , the whole universe - the heavens and ...
... Psalm , which may be viewed as a poetical version of the narrative of creation in Genesis , the same great writer remarks : " We are astonished to find in a lyr- ical poem of such a limited compass , the whole universe - the heavens and ...
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... I have already quoted the eloquent admission by Baron Humboldt of the presence of these ideas of the cosmos in Psalm civ . They are both conspicuous in the narrative of creation , and equally so 72 The Origin of the World .
... I have already quoted the eloquent admission by Baron Humboldt of the presence of these ideas of the cosmos in Psalm civ . They are both conspicuous in the narrative of creation , and equally so 72 The Origin of the World .
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... ( Psalm xc . ) , where our version has , " from everlasting to ever- lasting thou art God , " the original is , " from age to age thou art , O God . " It has perhaps been a defect of our modern science that it has familiarized us merely ...
... ( Psalm xc . ) , where our version has , " from everlasting to ever- lasting thou art God , " the original is , " from age to age thou art , O God . " It has perhaps been a defect of our modern science that it has familiarized us merely ...
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... Psalm is replete with notices of such adaptations , and so is the address to Job ; and indeed this view seems hardly ever absent from the minds of the Hebrew writers , but has its highest applications in the lilies of the field , that ...
... Psalm is replete with notices of such adaptations , and so is the address to Job ; and indeed this view seems hardly ever absent from the minds of the Hebrew writers , but has its highest applications in the lilies of the field , that ...
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... Psalm cxxxix . : " I will praise Thee , for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . Marvellous are thy works , And that my soul knoweth right well . My substance was not hid from Thee , When I was made in secret , And curiously wrought in ...
... Psalm cxxxix . : " I will praise Thee , for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . Marvellous are thy works , And that my soul knoweth right well . My substance was not hid from Thee , When I was made in secret , And curiously wrought in ...
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Page 208 - but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, ' A thousand types are gone : I care for nothing, all shall go. ' Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death ; The spirit does but mean the breath : I know no more.
Page 166 - But where shall wisdom be found ? and where is the place of understanding ? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 197 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying : Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 161 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment : the waters stood above the mountains.
Page 216 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 101 - And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 151 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 79 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 60 - When he established the clouds above. When he strengthened the fountains of the deep. When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 198 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...