Vers. 3-5.-Tho evolulion of the cosmos Ruach Eloliim, eliminates the light from wo.s accomplished by a series of Divine forma- the dark chaotic mass of earth, on the second tive works which extended over a period of six uplifts the atmosphere above the waters, an,l successive days. In the character of those on the third distinguishes the dry land from cosmic labours a progression is distinctly the sea-at a later pe1·iod in this same day visi hie, though not continuous throughout. clothing the dry lanu with vegetation, as if Unless, with Aristotle, the celestial lumin- to prophesy some correspondingly higher aries aro regarded us /.;~c, Xoy1Ka, and so advance in the creation work at the close of classed in the catogory of organised nnd the second series. At this stage, instead of living beings, it is impossible to find in pressing forward with its operations, the their production an advance upon the pre· demiurgic potency of the invisible Artificer ceding vegetation. Arbitrary transpositions appears to pause, and, reverting to the point of the days, ns of the third and fourth, in from which it started, enters on its second order to make the first half of the creative course of labours. On the fourth day the week an inorganic, and the second half an light developed on the first is concentrated :irganic, era, nre inadmissible. The arrange- o.nd permanently fixed in the celestial lumin- ment of tho days that accords most exactly aries ; on the fifth the air o.nd waters, which with the requirements of the case, and most were separated on the seconu, are filled with successfully preserves the order and con- fowl and fi~h, their resp('ctive inhabitants ; nection of tho record, is that 1vhich di1•ides and on the sb:th the dry land of the third them into two triads (Lange, Kalisch, Dana, day is occupied by nnimals, the mute pre- &c.), as exhibited underneath:- diction of the thin! day's vegetation being 1. Light. 4. Lights. fulfilled by tho creation of mau.
2 • l Air, Water, 6 \ Fowl, • l Fish. Yer. 3.-Day one. And God se.id. This phrase, which is ten times repeatcJ ia the 8. DryLandundPlants. G. Animalsandhlnn, narrntive of the six days' work, is commonly regarded as an instance ofanthropomorphism, -cnch triad beginning with the making of n peculiarity of revelation, am! of this chapter light, aud ending with a double creation, in particular, at which rationalism affects to and the works performed 011 the second be offenued. But auy other mode of repre- having each n definite relation to the lnbonrs senting the Deity would have failed to convey to finite minds an intelligent idea of his executed on tho first. On tho first creative nature. "Touching the Almighty, who can <lny the fornmtive energy of the Divine .find him out!" The most that God himself won!, operatin!!' through the agency of the could do iu communiclting to his creatD.re 10 'I HE BOOK OF GENESIS. [ell, I. 3-5,