 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 pages
...were above the firmament. He faid let the earth bring forth grafs, and trees yielding fruits ; let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day, and the lelTer light to rule the night, and let them be for figns, and for feafons, and for days, and... | |
 | Henry Phillpotts - 1826 - 510 pages
...and to " ' throw down ; to build and to plant.' "J " Besides, you ought to know that God made " two lights in the firmament of Heaven, the " greater light to rule the day, and the lesser " light to rule the night — both great, but one " the greater. In the firmament of... | |
 | John Hughes - 1834 - 498 pages
...illustrious Emperor of Constantinople, c. 6. Besides you ought also lo have known that God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night ; each of them great, but one the greater of the two. For the... | |
 | William Gearing - 1838 - 188 pages
...commanded light to shine out of darkness," says the apostle, 2 Cor. iv. 6. And it is said, that he set two lights in the firmament of heaven, " the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night," Gen. i. 15. 2. There is that which we commonly call the light... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1844 - 408 pages
...and to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant. Besides you ought to know, that God made two lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night — both great, but one greater. In the firmament of heaven,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - 1024 pages
...when God said, ' Let light be, and light was.' This is represented as having preceded the placing of ' lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light...lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also ' (Gen. i. 14, sq.). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the facility with which these two... | |
 | Protestant association - 1845 - 396 pages
...Emperor of Constantinople," chap 6. " Besides you ought also to have known that God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; each of them great, but one the greater of the two. For the... | |
 | 362 pages
...Emperor of Constantinople," chap. 6. " Besides, you ought also to have known that ' God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day, and Ihe lesser light to rule the night;' each of them great, but one the greater of the two. For the... | |
 | John Heron Macguire - 1851 - 158 pages
...scatter, that you may build and plant." " Besides, you ought also to have known that, ' God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven : the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night ; ' each of them great, but one the greater of the two. For... | |
 | Charles Elliott - 1851 - 512 pages
...than all, and the greatest of all," gives us the following goodly exposition : " God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven ; the greater light to rule the day, and the less to rule the night ; both great, but one the greater. In the firmament of heaven, that... | |
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God, the creator of the universe, set two great lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night... 
