 | Several Hands - 1766 - 596 pages
...day, of evening and morning, were made before the fun, the moon, and the ibis, which were fet in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and to be for figns, and for feafons, and for days, and for years." ' On the contrary, my lord, my tibetrine is plainly... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1766 - 722 pages
...evening and morning, were made before the fun, and the moon, and the ftars which were ' fet in the firmament . of heaven to divide the day from the night, and to be for fujns and for fe;ifons,and for days and for years.' It was not neceflary, shat you ihould tell them,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1777 - 392 pages
...evening and morning, were made before the fun, the moon, and the ftars, which were " fet tc in the firmament of heaven to divide the day ** from the night, and to be for figns and for fea" fons, and for days and for years." It was not neceflary that he mould tell them,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...He appointed these lights, their motion, office and use to com pass the earth, to rule the day and the night, and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. Q. 9. What was God's work on, the fifth day ? ., , ,,; "A. On the fifth day, I. God made of the waters,... | |
 | George Daniel - 1813
...cloath'd In stately dress. Recitative. — Mr. PYNE. Uritl. — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of Heaven to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth, and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for Years. He... | |
 | 1817 - 522 pages
...the other planets, as he has done for that which we inhabit, giving them lights in their firmaments, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years, and dividing the light from the darkness, he deduces the presumption, that the Creator has not left... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 pages
...shall, therefore, confine myself to a few additional observations. These luminaries were set in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and to be for signs and for seasons, for days and for years. Accordingly, they have been the great means of distributing time, from the... | |
 | 1836 - 438 pages
...the earth ;" and having before affirmed, that these " lights in the firmament of the heaven," were to divide the day from the night," and to be " for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years," what more as an astronomer, that is, of his own age, could he have to say? After... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - 1820 - 442 pages
...created ; and they were at the same time appointed to be " for lights, to give light upon the earth ; and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." At this same time therefore, that is, when these bodies were first created, the motions in the orbits... | |
 | 1821 - 790 pages
...celestial bodies shall retain their course, whicli the Creator planted in the firmament of beaveo, ' to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years,' so long shall mankind be tare that they consecrate to the memory of these wonderful events, their proper... | |
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Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. 
