...Plurality of Perfons fubfifting in the Godhead. Hence it is, that tho' it is faid in the Text juft quoted, that it was Elohim that made the Heavens,...Expreffion, when it is faid that the Spirit of God M OVED upon the Face of the Waters, that Ruah or the Spirit, co-operated with him in bringing it about...

...week of miracles, recorded in the commencement of the book of Genesis, begins with the announcement, that " the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters ;" that the original creation forms no part of the first day's operations, and that in the interval, for aught...

...kind. And hence it is said, that after that first matter was created, and found without form and void, emblem of one void of moral virtues; but 'Verily, I sayuntoyou is to work, and cause those things to appear in their own essence and form, which, as to matter and...

...should we declare that we had found the other Person of the Eloim, merely because it says thus much, that ' the Spirit of God' moved upon ' the face of the waters ' — that is, because we had found two in the narrative, a third must be indicated also. It should not, however,...

...confusion ; and that this was of a watery nature, is shown by the immediately following text, which states that ' the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters! That such an interval, which the discoveries of our own generation so nobly prove and illustrate, occurs...

...taken as instances of the first kind. Some of these I have already referred to. When, again, we read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters; that God by His Spirit garnished the heavens r ; that the hosts of heaven were made by the breath or spirit...

...Bible Genesis a little further in this direction. It is said in the second verse of the first chapter that " the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters," that is, upon the face of the abyss — the chaotic mass at creation — the earth " without form and void."...

...lawful, that the Holy Ghost is merely the Soul of the world, and that this is what Moses meant by writing that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, that the world is eternal, that Moses wrought his miracles by magic, in which he had become more * This,...

...form and void ; " That " darkness was upon the face of the Deep."— vv. I — 2 down to "deep." (c) That "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters;" That "Light "was created, "divided from darkness;" That "God called the light Day, and the darkness Night;...