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ii. ready existing, and involved in darkness; 
t leir condition also is described as a state of 
confusion and emptiness, {tokii holm), words 
which are usually interpreted by the vague and 
indefinite Greek term, “chaos,” and which may 
uce ), considering the two first verses as a summary of the ac- 
count of creation which was about to follow, and a general de- 
c aration that all things were made by God. 
Episcopius again, and others, thought that the creation and 
a of the bad angels took place in the interval here spoken of: 
and misplaced as such speculations are, still they seem to show 
timt it is natural to suppose that a considerable interval may have 
taken place between the creation related in the first verse of Ge- 
nesis and that of which an account is given in the third and fol- 
ding verses. Accordingly, in some old editions of the English 
ible, where there is no division into verses, you actually find a 
reak at the end of what is now the second verse ; and in Lu- 
ther’s Bible (Wittenburg, 1557) you have in addition the figure 1 
P aced against the third verse, as being the beginning of the 
account of the creation on the first day. 
This then is just the sort of confirmation which one wished for, 
ecause, though one would shrink from the impiety of bending 
anguage of God’s book to any other than its obvious mean- 
infl' fearing lest we might be unconsciously 
tu floating opinions of our own day, and therefore 
bef'' ^ anxiously to those who explained Holy Scripture, 
w ore these theories existed. You must allow me to add that I 
of ulti ^ farther. We know nothing of creation, nothing 
actual''^^^ eaases, nothing of space, except what is bounded by 
revol bodies, nothing of time, but what is limited by the 
doo-m bodies. I should be very sorry to appear to 
revere that, of which it requires very little reflection, or 
do We oonfess that we are necessarily ignorant. “ Hardly 
do We of things that are upon earth, and with labour 
beaveii ^ before us ; but the things that are in 
“o hath searched out Wisdom, ix. 16.— E. B. Pusey. 
