There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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And the evening and the morning were the third day.
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And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the evening and the morning were the third…
And the evening and the morning were the third day. The space of twenty four hours ran out, and were measured, either by the rotation of the body of light and heat around the earth, or of the earth upon its axis: and this was according to Capellus the twentieth day of April, and, according to Bishop Usher, the twenty fifth of October; though those who suppose the world was created in autumn make the first day to be the first of September, and so this must be the third of that month; the Jews are divided about the season of the creation; some say Nisan or March, others Tisri or September (g).
(g) Vid. T. Bab. Roshhashanah, fol. 11. 1.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the evening and the morning were the third…
And the evening and the morning were the third day. For exposition vid. ver. 5. Has modern geological research any trace of this third day s vegetation? The late Hugh Miller identified the long-continued epoch of profuse vegetation, since then unparalleled in rapidity and luxuriance, which deposited the coal-measures of the carboniferous system, with the latter half of this Mosaic day. Dana, Dawson, and others, rejecting this conclusion of the eminent geologist on the ground that the underlying Devonian, Silurian, and Cambrian systems yield abundant fossiliferous remains of aquatic life, infer that the third day"s vegetation is to be sought for among the "unresolved schists" of the Azoic period. The metamorphic rocks, it is true, have not as yet yielded any absolutely certain traces of vegetable life; and. indeed, it is an open question, among geologists whether any of the earliest formed metamorphic rocks now remain (cf. Green"s "Geology," p. 308); but still it is susceptible of almost perfect demonstration that plants preceded animals upon the earth.
1. Among the hypozoic strata of this early period limestone rocks and graphite have been discovered, both of these being of organic origin.
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2. In the process of cooling the earth must have been fitted for vegetable life a long time before animals could have existed.
3. As the luxuriant vegetation of the coal period prepared the way for the subsequent introduction of animal life by ridding the atmosphere of carbonic acid, so by the presence of plants must the ocean have been fitted to be the abode of aquatic life.
4. Vegetation, being directly, or mediately, the food of animals, must have had a previous existence. On these grounds Professor Dana concludes that the latter part of the Azoic age of geology corresponds with the latter half of the third creative day. In the Creation Series of Chaldean tablets are two fragments, which George Smith conjectures have a reference to the first part of the third day"s work. The one is
1. When the foundation of the ground of rock (thou didst make)
2. The foundation of the ground thou didst call
3. Thou didst beautify the heaven
4. To the face of the heaven
5. Thou didst give
The other, which is much more mutilated and obscure, describes the god Sat (or Assur) as saying
1. Above the sea which is the sea of
2. In front of the esara (firmament) which I have made.
3. Below the place I strengthen it
4. Let there be made also e-lu (earth?) for the dwelling of man? ("Chaldean Genesis," p. 68.)
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