| 1839 - 742 pages
...as yet any shrub of the field in the earth, nor as yet had any herb of the field been made to grow ; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the...till the ground ; but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground." — (Gen. ii. 4 — 6.) In this remarkable passage... | |
| Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the...earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. The work of creation is a thing not only so useful, but so needful to be well known and firmly believed,... | |
| George Bush - 1839 - 406 pages
...which is also in our version rendered Lord. The Scriptures them..n. tie,. * iri*. a " caused it to ram upon the earth. and there was not a man ' to till the ground. f Job 38. 86, 37, X. g ch. 3. 23. selves, however, afford no warrant for this extreme scrupulousness.... | |
| Martyn Paine - 1840 - 752 pages
...every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field, before it grew ; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the...earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." We have said that man (and animals also,) was at first an inanimate apparatus. But had the forces of... | |
| John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...every herb of the field before it grew : :or the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, md there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the wmnd. ' And the LORD , ., , . , . , , , [• j , , , ., ,... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 pages
...and every herb of the field before it grew." The remaining part of the same verse explains this, " for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the...earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." This plainly showing, that although the process of vegetation usually requires rain and tillage, yet... | |
| Benjamin Shillingford - 1841 - 196 pages
...field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain ujwn the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole lace ol the •with e TLJ.A -an. •walket , _ r-^rr that clt eth his... | |
| Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward - 1842 - 118 pages
...any great stretch of imagination, carry our minds back to the primaeval condition of vegetation, when "the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,...till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." This will be a fitting place to make mention of a... | |
| Francis Augustus Cox - 1842 - 464 pages
...nonentity, and making, the after-formation, or bringing it into order ? "Ver. 5, 6.—'For the Lord God had caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not...till the ground: but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.' This reading proves nothing; but the Hebrew serves... | |
| Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - 1842 - 524 pages
...made the earth and the heavens, no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb yet grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the...earth, and there was not a man to till the ground:" — then we have the first as a prefatory verse; while the second, supposing earth and heaven to be... | |
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