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E. WALTER MAUNDER, F.R.A.S., ON 



Lest anyone should declare that the second chapter of Genesis 

 gave an account of creation conflicting with that found in the firsts 

 he would point out that in this case the account in the second 

 chapter would be a very strange one, for neither fishes nor creeping 

 things were mentioned as created at all. Genesis ii, 4, — iv, 26, was 

 one of ten sections into which, after the Divine preface, the whole 

 book was divided, each of the ten beginning with the phrase 

 " These are the generations," and each starting with the summary 

 of the chief subject treated of in the preceding section. 



Mr. Maunder had said that there was no difference in signification 

 between "God created" and "God made." He thought that there 

 was. Bara^ rendered " created " each time that it occurred in the 

 chapter, was the only v^ord that the Hebrew had for created, whereas 

 asah, rendered "made," usually signified manufactured out of exist- 

 ing tangible material, so if the light-holders (verse 14) were said to 

 have been " made," whereas man was said to have been " created,'^ 

 the meaning might simply be that after a longer obscuration the 

 light-holders then again became visible. 



The Dean of Canterbury said that he had read Mr. Maunder's 

 paper with very great interest, and joined in offering hearty 

 thanks to him for it. It was one, however, which he thought they 

 could not adequately judge upon a first hearing. It gave a great 

 deal of material for thought, and he should not like to express an 

 opinion about all its suggestions without much more consideration 

 than had yet been possible. He was particularly grateful to 

 Mr. Maunder for the emphasis he had laid on the fact that this 

 chapter was really more a revelation of God, and of God's relation 

 to man, than an historical or scientific account of the creation of 

 the world. He also dwelt on another point of profound importance : 

 that it was a chapter which could not have been derived from any 

 mere human source. It could not have been derived from experience, 

 or even by inference. The scientific facts which pointed to that 

 gradual development of the earth which it described were not known 

 to man at the time. To his mind, despite all the difficulties which 

 surrounded it, this first chapter of Genesis afforded conclusive proof 

 of direct Divine revelation. They had listened to a discussion on 

 the words " evening " and " morning," and " created " and " made." 

 He remembered, however, a remark once made to hini when some small 

 point was being raised respecting a newspaper article. A great 



