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to  be  created,"  when  we  quoted  ihc  words,  "  He
said,  and  it  was  done  ;  He  commanded,  and  all
things  stood  fast;"'  remarking  that  the  imme-
diate' Creator,  and,  as  it  were,  very  Maker'  of
the  world  was  the  Word,  the  Son  of  God  ;  while
the  Father  of  the  Word,  by  commanding  His
own  Son  —  the  Word  —  to  create  the  world,
is  primarily  Creator.  And  with  regard  lo  the
creation  of  the  Hght  upon  the  first  day,  and  of
the  firmament  upon  the  second,  and  of  the  gath-
ering together  of  the  waters  that  are  under  the
heaven  into  their  several  reservoirs*  on  the  third
(the  earth  thus  causing  to  sprout  forth  those
{fruits)  which  are  under  the  control  of  nature
alone'),  and  of  the  (great)  hghts  and  stars  upon
the  fourth,  and  of  aquatic^  animals  upon  the
fifth,  and  of  land  animals  and  man  upon  the
sixth,  we  have  treated  to  the  best  of  our  ability
in  our  notes  upon  Genesis,  as  well  as  in  the  fore-
going pages,  when  we  found  fault  iviih  those  who,
taking  the  words  in  their  apparent  signification,
said  that  the  time  of  six  days  was  occupied  io
the  creation  of  the  world,  and  quoted  the  words  :
"  These  are  the  generations  of  the  heavens  and
of  the  earth  wheji  they  were  created,  in  the  day
that  the  Lord  God  made  the  earth  and  the
heavens." '

CHAP.    LXI.
