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On The First Chapter Of Genesis.
ON THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS .
BY BROTHER GEORGE AARON'S . " In the beginning , God created the Heavens and the Earth . " That the universe was created , or produced out of nothing , by an infinitely powerful , wise , ancl good God , who , being self-existent , is the oriinal of all
g cause things , is not only certain from revelation , but deducible from reason . When we contemplate the works of nature in all their beautiful variety , how can we refrain from exclaiming with the Divine Psalmist : "O Lord our God how manifest is thy name throughout the whole earth . " Various opinions have been promulgated concerning the oriin of the
g world , and many arguments have been used hy all the ancient philosophers and historians , to account for the cosmogony or the production and formation of this world . Many difficulties seem to have attended the execution of this undertaking , especially as to the history of ancient times . Such as the numbers of spurious books , the fictions of poets ( who are considered the first historians ) , the contradictions , and partiality cf authors , the different
computations of time in use among the same , as well as different nations , the want of proper epochs to compute from in some nations , and the multiplicity of them in others , the variety of proper names of the same persons and place , and the corruption of them through ignorance , negligence , or design . " M hat adds to the misfortune , " says a celebrated writer , " is that if we except the Israelites , not one of the histories of the ancient nations either written b
y the natives themselves , or extracted from record , has come correctly to our hands ; nothing remaining of them beside a few fragments ^ preserved here ancl there which serve only to make us lament their loss . " While at the same time we must express our gratitude to the all-gracious God , for the Mosaic dispensation which alone affords us an account of the Creation and formation of the universe , in a manner calculated to convince every reflecting mind of the existence of a Deity
, who at a period when it pleased His divine will called this globe from chaos to perfection . With these preliminary observations we will attempt to expound this chapter in the most comprehensive manner , so difficult a subject will admit ; taking for our guide the Hebrew Bible , or Mosaic account of the creation .
The Hebrew Bible commences J ^ ti . tt" )__ l Berishees , which we shall render indefinitel y agreeably with the grammatical construction of the language , viz : In a beginning , or at a certain period the Divine Being caused all the materials to be produced for the formation of the Heavens , and all their hosts , and for the Earth and all its products . Our version of the word differs from that of the English Bible which renders it , " In the beginning , " according to that translation the 3 , Bice should have been pointed thus , ( T ) instead of ( = ) which the Hebraist will readily perceive .
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On The First Chapter Of Genesis.
ON THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS .
BY BROTHER GEORGE AARON'S . " In the beginning , God created the Heavens and the Earth . " That the universe was created , or produced out of nothing , by an infinitely powerful , wise , ancl good God , who , being self-existent , is the oriinal of all
g cause things , is not only certain from revelation , but deducible from reason . When we contemplate the works of nature in all their beautiful variety , how can we refrain from exclaiming with the Divine Psalmist : "O Lord our God how manifest is thy name throughout the whole earth . " Various opinions have been promulgated concerning the oriin of the
g world , and many arguments have been used hy all the ancient philosophers and historians , to account for the cosmogony or the production and formation of this world . Many difficulties seem to have attended the execution of this undertaking , especially as to the history of ancient times . Such as the numbers of spurious books , the fictions of poets ( who are considered the first historians ) , the contradictions , and partiality cf authors , the different
computations of time in use among the same , as well as different nations , the want of proper epochs to compute from in some nations , and the multiplicity of them in others , the variety of proper names of the same persons and place , and the corruption of them through ignorance , negligence , or design . " M hat adds to the misfortune , " says a celebrated writer , " is that if we except the Israelites , not one of the histories of the ancient nations either written b
y the natives themselves , or extracted from record , has come correctly to our hands ; nothing remaining of them beside a few fragments ^ preserved here ancl there which serve only to make us lament their loss . " While at the same time we must express our gratitude to the all-gracious God , for the Mosaic dispensation which alone affords us an account of the Creation and formation of the universe , in a manner calculated to convince every reflecting mind of the existence of a Deity
, who at a period when it pleased His divine will called this globe from chaos to perfection . With these preliminary observations we will attempt to expound this chapter in the most comprehensive manner , so difficult a subject will admit ; taking for our guide the Hebrew Bible , or Mosaic account of the creation .
The Hebrew Bible commences J ^ ti . tt" )__ l Berishees , which we shall render indefinitel y agreeably with the grammatical construction of the language , viz : In a beginning , or at a certain period the Divine Being caused all the materials to be produced for the formation of the Heavens , and all their hosts , and for the Earth and all its products . Our version of the word differs from that of the English Bible which renders it , " In the beginning , " according to that translation the 3 , Bice should have been pointed thus , ( T ) instead of ( = ) which the Hebraist will readily perceive .