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[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.