...meaning ? Yes.— What is it ? The whole expanse of heaven and of the blue shy above us. VER. 9. And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. In what state were the land and the waters at the end of the second day ?...

...which that region underwent since the beginning, when God created the heaven and the earth. 3. " And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so." It is undeniable, says Cuvier, that the masses which now form...

...we have a description of that change in the earth's surface which in Genesis is thus described : And God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear ; and it was so. Moses does not describe the agent employed in this change...

...as even the poorest language must necessarily include. Thus, for instance, when it is written,' And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry appear;' or, ' Surely every roan walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in...

...will be no more sea," Rev. xxi, 1. We have reason to believe, that at the beginning of the world, when God said, " Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear," Gen. i, 9; the dry land spread over the face of the water, and covered it...

...fitted and commanded to their proper stations and offices: now, therefore, the history tells us that " God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear" — and so it accordingly happened. Each element assumed the situation, and...

...we have a description of that change in the earth's surface which in Genesis is thus described : And God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear ; and it was so. Moses does not describe the agent employed in this change...

...thereof; and thus was the second natural day, consisting of evening and morning, finished. I. 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. Further, God willed that these lower waters should be gathered...

...to bring forth thorns, which before she knew not. Homily on the Terrestrial Paradise. THE SEA. "AND God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place." (Gen. i. 9.) Have you never reflected, when seated on the margin of a spouting fountain— how comes...

...firmament — the seeming expanse of heaven — from those which rested on the surface of the earth. " And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered...dry land appear ; and it was so. And God called the dryland earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he seas. And God saw that it was good....