Excerpt from The Book of Genesis, and Part of the Book of Exodus: A Revised Version, With Marginal References, and an Explanatory Commentary I. 1, History previous to flee six days' works. The assignment of this portion of the narrative has been curious. M any have regarded ver. 1 as an announcement of the original creation of matter, and ver. 2 as opening with the first day. Others have included ver. 1 in the first day's works, and have regarded the opening words as meaning First of all. But, inasmuch as every one of the six days' works opens with And God said, it is required by the symmetry of the narrative that the first day's work should begin at ver. 3, and that W. 1, 2, should be regarded as introductory matter. It is no objection to this that in Exod. Xx. 11, xxxi. 17, God is said in six days to have made heaven and earth. See on the former of these places. This being so, we have in it three propositions. First, (a) originally God created the heaven and the earth. Secondly, (b) at a certain time formlessness and dark ness prevailed. Thirdly, (c) the Divine Spirit wrought upon this chaotic state. And thus the way is prepared for the six-days' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.