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; « o * wm&k&fi fft' ^ i ^^ jmagi ^ yti ^ ia in Uie c ^ ncJucli ^ g |^^ figfjf Wjbo ^ sh ^ 4 jlti || i * mm in ) t . ejryarwi | h a br ^ atb ^ or who , gfiall IjDoJl , into the Creator ' w ways ! The volume of Eternity is suddenly thrown , wide opftai jaefore us ; but the brain swims away from the pages , aBdH transmits the gradual perusal to the humble labours of futtfttJ
generations . ,..- .... .. - Whoever wrote the first chapter of Genesis , was a poet JnM the grandest sense of the term . We do not know who it vrai ? : tl ) e first five books of the Bible ate usually attribute *! to Mo ||| j | on wh > t evidence it is difficult to say . It seems , ftoweyjei f $ lr treniely probable that he wrote or compiled most of them . | j : does not appear lively that a mind such as th ^ t which lilflisesi has manifested should dictate the history of the dreatiqn ,, without stretching backwards into unmeasured time , and
losingitself iq . the vast and vague mystery of the beginning of ifl things . It is very unlikely that it would rest satisfiea in thp recent commencement of the infinite universe . Moses frafc " learned hi all the wisdom of the Egyptians ; " educated und ^ t the care of the daughter of Pharoah . We are apt to & * i | j 6 i this , and to imagine him pnly as a brother of the enslaved
face to whom he so nobly devoted himself ; turning hid back On the court of Egypt , with all its refinement and its splendoutf , to wander through the wilderness with his own people . ' .. ' TlljB mighty intellect which he displayed in his deliverance atifl guidance of a nation of slaves , is sufficient to make it fe 6 f 4 | 0 iiii that he could not have been a barren recipient of the stores 0 f Egyptian knowledge , nor left untouched—or by deep surprise , or solemn vision—rthe impenetrable difficulties which siirrQund
the origin of things ; the creation of matter ; the first dawntflgS of life and light . Supposing that Moses did contemplate the lapse of l ^ fc eges in his words ( t the beginning , " the rest of the description must be understood as a poetical representation of the ^ C ^ - very of the earth from some mighty convulsion , and the cation of new forms of living beings to fill it : or \ t jn ^ y bfe tKit
the poet imagined it was then rendered , for the first time , the habitation of living beings : — ¦ , ¦ ¦ ¦ , . , ¦ ¦ . ' .. _ ¦ . ' , ,. ¦ . . ,. . ^ # Th < ei second verse may describe the condition of the earth on tiie fevening <> f the first day , for ^ in the Jewish mode of coniputation lised ) by Mwea > , efteh / dfty is reckoned from ^/ the , beginning of onp 6 veniag to the l ^ egin ^ ing of&nQtlmr mtming . S W ,: ? , ^* . ? &hmt ini this gecoad vemu
ilistinct jnentipn of e ^ rth aii 4 waiters , aa ^ kcady exiEfiag attMd ittw * rad i ? i ' ^ teipff / rTtt-f W 0 ' W | h ^ v / e , fturt ^ mN $ m ^ it ^ immMx ^ k #$ f # | l ^«) °# 0 }? r v $ p 9 W $ w ® ! wwJ . ^^ y . ) s 4 'ip 9 $%$ w ^ j w ^ $ w lana being the salue ^ arth whose material creation had Seen annouACea
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 2711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/16/
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