lilSCOVERIES WITH SACKED HISTORY. 23 
each day is reckoned from the beginning of one 
evening to the beginning of another evening). 
This first evening may be considered as the ter- 
mination of the indefinite time which followed 
the primeval creation announced in the first 
IS indeed so far stronger than asah, “ made,” in that bara can 
On y be used with reference to God, whereas asah maybe applied 
to man. The difference is exactly that which exists in English 
between the words by which they are rendered, “ created ” and 
made.” But this seems to me to belong rather to our mode of 
conception than to the subject itself; for making, when spoken 
of with reference to God, is equivalent to creating. 
The words accordingly, bara, created — asah, made — yatsar, 
formed, are used repeatedly by Isaiah, and are also employed by 
Amos, as equivalent to each other. Bara and asah express alike 
a formation of something new (de novo), something whose exist- 
ence in this new state originated in, and depends entirely upon 
the will of its creator or maker. Thus God speaks of Himself as 
the Creator “ boree" of the Jewish people, e. g. Isaiah xliii. 
b 15 ; and a new event is spoken of under the same term as “ a 
creation, Numb. xvi. 30, English version, “ If the Lord make a 
new thing; ’ in tjjg niargin, Heb. “ create a creature.” Again, 
t le Psalmist uses the same word, Ps. civ. 30, when describing 
t le renovation of the face of the earth through the successive 
generations of living creatures, “ Thou sendest forth thy spirit, 
Tk^ created; and thou renewest the face of the earth,” 
e question is popularly treated by Beausobre, Hist, de Mani- 
c eisme, tom. ii. lib. 5, c. 4; or, in a better spirit, by Petavius 
opificio sex dierum, lib. 1, c. 1, § 8. 
fter having continually re-read and studied this account, I 
can come to no other result than that the words “created” and 
^^made are synonymous, (although the former is to us the 
ronger of the two), and that, because they are so constantly in- 
rc anged ; as, Gen. i. ver. 21,“ God created great whales ver. 
> _^oct made the beast of the earth ver. 26, “ Let us make 
ver. 27, “ So God created man.” At the same time it is 
