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Toeing divided apart 1 by fire, and suspended up to be 

 carried onward (a) by Spirit. 



3. But each 2 God by his proper power (6), set for- 



(a) o%ewdoti. (6) B/ot TVJ; 



1 The agency of Fire or Heat is not directly noticed in Holy Scrip- 

 ture ; but it is clear that it must have formed part of the original 

 creation. To this may be referred " He maketh his angels spirits, 

 and his ministers a flame of fire," or " flaming fire " (Psalm civ. 4 ; 

 Heb. i. 7). 



See a statement similar to that in the text in the " Timseus " of / 

 Plato, 52, 53. 



The account of the Creation in Genesis proceeds thus : " And The 

 God said, Let there be a firmament (artpiupa, Sept.) in the midst of 

 the water, and let it divide the water from the water (^ix^upi^v dva,- 

 [tkaov vdotros KXI vdotTo?, Sept.); and The God made the firmament, 

 and divided the water which was under the firmament from the 

 water which was above the firmament; and it was so. And The 

 God called the firmament Heaven. . . . And The God said, Let 

 the water under the heaven be gathered together unto one gathering 

 (eig avvotyuy^v fttotv, Sept.), and let the dry land appear. And the 

 water under the heaven was gathered together unto its own gather- 

 ings, and the dry land appeared ; and The God called the dry land 

 Earth ; and the collections (rx avarvpoiTat,, Sept.) of the waters called 

 He Seas " (from the Septuagint in loco). 



See ante, ch. i. 11, and notes there ; and the extract, Part II., by Sto- 

 bseus, from " The Things to Animon " (Physica, 741 ; Meineke, i. 203). 



The account of the creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars in Genesis 

 rims thus (ch. i. 14): "And ('The/ Sept.) God said, Let there be 

 lights ((paarvipsf, Sept.) in the firmament of the Heaven to divide 

 the Day from the Night (' between the Day and between the Night/ 

 Heb. and Sept.), and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for 

 days and for years ; and let them be for lights in the firmament of 

 the heaven to give light (oars. Qoiivtiv, Sept.) upon the earth, and 

 it was so." And ('The,' Sept.), God made two great Lights" 

 (rovs St/o (pa<rrvipoi$, Sept.), &c. " The stars also. And ( The,' Sept.), 

 God set them in the firmament of Heaven to give light upon the 

 earth, and to rule over the Day (' for the rule of the day,' Heb.), and 

 over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness (oLvoipiaov 

 rov (faro; x.atl dvolptaw rw OKOTOV^ Sept.) ; and God saw that it was 

 good." 



2 " Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his 

 commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Ministers 

 of his that do his pleasure " (Ps. ciii. 20, 21). See Heb. i. 14 ; Dan. 

 vii. 9. 



