CREA TION 17 



ing, but the English version has it "living crea- 

 ture." 



I will call your attention to one more passage in 

 this connection : " To every beast of the earth and 

 to every fowl of the air and to everything that 

 creepeth upon the earth wherein there is a living 

 soul." 



The Hebrew text is given in plain words nephesh 

 chayah. The English version gives it " life," but in 

 many Bibles in the marginal reading it is rendered 

 " a living soul." I have before me a Bible published 

 in 1867 by the American Bible Society, which gives 

 in the margin the words " living soul " in this last, 

 and two more similar passages. I recently exam- 

 ined a large number of Bibles in a repository and 

 continued my researches until I found one hundred 

 giving the words " living soul " in the margin where 

 the word " life " is used in the text of the English 

 version. 



Kev. Dr. Bush, in his commentary on Genesis, 

 makes the following plain statement : " The phrase 

 ' living soul ' is repeatedly applied to the inferior 

 order of animals. It would seem to mean the same 

 when spoken of man that it does when spoken of 

 beasts, viz., an animated being, a creature possessed 



