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this : — Darkness hath covered the land, and gross darkness the people. His 
renewed condition is this : — God, who commanded the light to shine out of 
darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the 
glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The last parallel may be carried 
farther. Our present spiritual life is intermingled light and darkness. The 
resurrection state will be the morning. The account of the fourth day’s work 
is not of the creation of light, but of assigning to the sun and moon their 
functions in an atmosphere. It would occupy too much space to enter into 
the verbal criticism of the Mosaic statement there. 
VII. — The Chairman. 
(xxv.) He made a general statement that Hebrew formed no exception to 
the confusion of languages at Babel. He offered no proof of this. 
Reply . — I should have been very glad if Mr. Mitchell had stated what he 
considers misinterpretations, for his papers in the Journal of the Institute 
I have found always valuable and instructive. May he long continue to 
render equal service to Divine truth and to real science ! 
I have now answered in detail all the criticisms on my paper, and I must 
conclude by expressing my great disappointment that the general principles 
of the paper have been so little criticised. Where so much has been said, I 
hope I may take this fact as an indirect proof that they are correct. In my 
opinion, the truth and the interpretation of Scripture should always be 
handled with reverential earnestness ; and even in human science, we should 
remember that national history, human language, and natural phenomena 
are all God’s work. 
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