| Philo (of Alexandria.) - 1800 - 542 páginas
...the connection between what comes afterwards and what has gone before, he says next, "And a fountain went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the earth." For other philosophers affirm that all water is one of the four elements of which the world... | |
| Bartholomew Prescot - 1822 - 292 páginas
...discovered what the whole Jewish and there was not a man to till the ground ; but there went up a mut from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground." The same doctrine is confirmed by succeeding divine writers. David says, " He causeth the vapours to ascend,"... | |
| R. J. Rowe - 1832 - 314 páginas
...blessed this seventh day,' &c. &c. ' Now it had not rained upon the earth ; but an (abundant) source went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. ' And he had planted the garden of Eden, (beforehand, or to the east,) there he put the man. In the... | |
| John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 páginas
...drought when there was not a man to till the ground ? Simply and sublimely this : — Ther&went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The first white vapor that ever exhaled from shore and fountain and flood was seen creeping along the serpentine... | |
| 1833 - 806 páginas
...Lord God rained not on the earth And there was not a man to dress the ground, There went up a mist from the earth And watered the whole face of the ground." The first chapter, I conceive, should have been extended beyond the six days of creation, so as to contain... | |
| 1833 - 792 páginas
...Lord God rained not on the earth And there was not a man to dress the ground, There went up a mist from the earth And watered the whole face of the ground." The first chapter, I conceive, should have been extended beyond the six days of creation, so as to contain... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 578 páginas
...creation, for it is said, Genesis ii, that " God had not yet caused it to rain upon the earth, but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground," for it might take a longer time for the elevation of vapours sufficient to make a congregation of clouds... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 572 páginas
...creation, for it is said, Genesis ii, that " God had not yet caused it to rain upon the earth, but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground," for it might take a longer time for the elevation of vapours sufficient to make a congregation of clouds... | |
| 1836 - 742 páginas
...that these plants flourished " when the Lord God rained not on the earth, but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." The purely scriptural inferences are, that the climate in which they were native was clouded and humid... | |
| John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 630 páginas
...should not that be always good, by which thou hast declared thy plentiful goodness to us ? A vapour went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground (Gen. ii. 6). And that by which thou hast imputed a goodness to us, and wherein thou hast accepted... | |
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