 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 434 pages
...stars, which were " set in the " firmament " firmament of Heaven to divide the day from the " night, and to be for signs and for seasons, and " for days and for years." It was not necessary that he should tell them, how this moral system was destroyed, by the wiles of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...beauty and splendour, »nd were appointed not only " to divide the day from the night," but also " to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years," until the time which they measure be no more. In further elucidation of the above view, it may be remarked,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 536 pages
...sky " to rule over the day and over the night," — "to divide the light from the darkness," — and to " be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years," on or before the very first day or generation ; for otherwise there could be no solar day, or such... | |
 | William Hales - 1830 - 510 pages
...great luminaries, the sun and moon, and the stars also, to " rule the day, and rule the night," and to be for " signs and for seasons, and for days, and for years." Vers. 14—18. This passage strikes at the root of the earliest species of idolatry, the Zabian, or... | |
 | Edward Strangwayes - 1830 - 500 pages
...light upon the earth, to rule over the day, and over the night, to divide the light from the darkness, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years, and it was so, and the evening and morning of the fourth day appeared. On the fifth day, God said,... | |
 | William Daniel Conybeare - 1831 - 188 pages
...when we read that God set the luminaries in the firmament of heaven to rule the day and the night, and to be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years ; though we assuredly know that this can be only a secondary and subordinate design answered by these... | |
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... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. 
