170 NOMOS. 



The idea of be interpreted so as to suit either the 

 vohationsta preadamite or the adamite cosmogony. 

 wodd a n a oT ite There is nothing in the Hebrew word 



unscriptural. bara> ^ J) r p ugey has Well shown,* 



which of necessity signifies creation out of nothing, 

 or creation out of something previously existing. 

 It is a stronger word than asah, made, in that 

 bara can only be used with reference to God, 

 whereas asah may be used with reference to man. 

 Indeed, bara, created, asak, made, and yatsar, formed, 

 are repeatedly used as equivalents by Isaiah and 

 Amos. There is nothing, then, in the word bara to 

 signify that at the time spoken of in the first chapter 

 of Genesis the earth was created out of nothing, or 

 out of something previously existing, and therefore 

 the antiquity of the earth must be determined by 

 other evidence than the etymology of the word bara. 

 The question, then, is, When was the time which is 

 spoken of as "in the beginning"? Is it a time 

 preceding the six days, or is it the beginning of the 

 first day ? Now Dr. Pusey considers, and considers 

 very wisely, that the form of the narrative is an 

 argument that the creative act of the first day begins 

 at the third verse, because we find here for the first 

 time the declaration, " And God said," which ushers 

 in the creative acts of each of the succeeding days ; 

 and hence he would argue that the creation spoken 

 of in the first and second versee may have been 

 in some undefined period prior to the dawning of 

 the adamic epoch. He also shows that this opinion 

 * See note in Bridgewater Treatise on Geology, p. 22. 



