 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pages
...their orders at first. Gen. i. 16. ' God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also.' And they have still observed these orders since. Psal. civ. 19. 'He appointeth the moon for seasons... | |
 | John Grundy - 1813 - 592 pages
...darkness he called night And the evening and the morning were t/te first day." V. 16, 17, 18, 19, " And God made two great lights; the greater light to...lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth : and it was so. 1 6 And God made two great lights ; the greater light...he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth; 18 And to rule over the day, and over the night,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1844 - 496 pages
...and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth ; and it was so : and God made two great lights, the greater light to...lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars alSb ; and God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over... | |
 | 1815 - 706 pages
...for days, and years : 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so. 16 And God made two great...he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night,... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...light upon the earth : and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater to rule the day, £ind the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...for lights " in the firmament of the heaven, to give " light upon the earth :" and it was so. 1 6. And God made two great lights ; the greater light...light to rule the night : he made the stars also. 1 7. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, 18. and to rule... | |
 | John Hoyland - 1816 - 486 pages
...created ; and on the fourth day, "God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night ; he made the stars also." To enter into scientific disquisitions on these subjects, would be to exceed the limits of this work... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1816 - 428 pages
...Genesis, where it is written, " God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also ;" by which the Scripture seems to state that the moon is greater than all the stars ; but since it... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...importance, and which, as will be seen, are clearly necessary to prevent ambiguity. The first is at v. 16. ' And God made two great lights, the greater light...light to rule the night : he made the stars also.' Here the words he. made are obviously inserted to preclude the ambiguity which would exist without... | |
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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 
