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GENESIS 1:11. And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind; whose seed is in its self, upon the earth; and it was so.

THIS first chapter of Genesis is the most noble, the most sublime piece of writing that ever proceeded from the pen of a mortal; and it sufficiently proclaims itself to be dictated by a divine spirit.

The language is so exquisite that it moved the greatest critic among the ancients, Longinus Dionysius Cassius Longinus (c. 213–273 AD), a Greek philosopher and rhetorician who famously praised the Hebrew lawgiver in his work "On the Sublime.", to give it extraordinary high praise original: "encomium". So accurate is the philosophy contained within it that it is most worthy of admiration, even among those who have drunk deeply from the fountain of Newtonian Referring to the physics and natural philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton. science.

In the beginning God created the heaven, and the earth. That is to say, the matter or substance of which the world is made.

And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the inactive, cold, and dark matter, called Waters, MótA word, likely of Phoenician origin, referring to a watery "mud" or primordial substance from which the universe was thought to have formed. or mud; a fluid, confused jumble of the parts of everything that was created.