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days no doubt to appear comsecutive days: and makes it 
necessary to re-examine the true force of the original; of 
which the accurate rendering is after all not ‘the Day’ 
but ‘a Day,’ “and the evening and the morning were a 
fourth day.” 
It has been urged that the term day should mean 
period: Why should it not? It is closed by an evening, 
and a morning. Just this expression be confined to the 
solar day of 24 hours? How dothe Hebrews use these 
terms? “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening 
_ withhold not thy hand.” Does the scientist himself, who 
speaks of sunrise, and sunset; and labels organisms as 
Oriental, or Occidental; never talk of the morning, and 
evening of life. 
Besides, the critic holds that the first three days are 
not, according to the author, regulated by the sun (as yet 
uncreated), therefore their evening, and morning are 
unknown quantities. 
But, by /zteral pressure, Moses may be made to err 
yet more surprisingly for, in his second chapter, he 
crowds the six days’ work into oe day: where the genera- 
tions are spoken of as created ‘in the day when the Lord 
made the Earth, and the Heavens.” The spirit of such 
criticism would require a rainbow to appear in every 
cloud, on the plea that God, through Moses, had 
promised no less. 
There are one or two well-known points, which have 
been often brought forward, and these it is not necessary 
to notice. But, however the five fast periods may 
appear to be confined consecutively each within 24 hours, 
all in the course of the same week; as the superficial 
reader finds it: there is no such confinement for the frst 
perwod: of which it simply says that it ended in an 
evening, followed by a morning. 
