 | 1888 - 492 pages
...the universe at large as to the earth in particular, and to man's convenience. They are then designed to be " for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years." The same idea is manifested in the brief record of the creation of vegetable and animal life. These... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 pages
...heavenly bodies which form parts of the universe in which our earth has place. These heavenly bodies were to be " for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years." There is our warrant for pursuing the science of astronomy. It is clear that with us this science must... | |
 | 1883 - 886 pages
...heavenly bodies which form parts of the universe in which our earth has place. These heavenly bodies were to be " for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years." There is our warrant for pursuing the science of astronomy. It is clear that with us this science must... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - 1883 - 556 pages
...this epoch the Sun, Moon, and Stars were appointed " to rule over the day and over the night," and " to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." COAL AND COAL-MIKES. That the vegetable growth must have been prolific in the extreme may well be understood... | |
 | Joseph Harvey Ward - 1884 - 224 pages
...seasons ; but, after that, God appointed the sun, moon and slaw '.to give light upon the earth, and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years." That the sun and stars had been created long before this, we have no reason to doubt. We may, therefore,... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood - 1887 - 423 pages
...nigh't, — to distinguish between states of illumination, and states of comparative obscurity ; and also to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. In other words, to be the sources of all those infinite varieties and mutations of spiritual condition... | |
 | 1894 - 896 pages
...moon, and stars exist not merely to maintain or increase light but to " divide the day from the night, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years," and " to rule the day and the night." Of this belief we find survivals among the early fathers, and... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - 1896 - 452 pages
...the sun, moon, and stars exist not merely to increase light but to "divide the day from the night, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years," and " to rule the day and the night." * For strange representations of the Creator and of the creation... | |
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - 1896 - 448 pages
...bodies the power to emit the light already made, while others were given the power to reflect light to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years. Postulate Seventh. That the fifth day's work consisted in creating the moving creatures that have life... | |
 | Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1900 - 542 pages
...Bible we read of " the greater and the lesser lights," and of " the stars also " set in the heavens, to be "for signs and for seasons and for days and for years." And scarcely have we turned this first page, when we may learn of Abel — who " at the end of days... | |
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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. 
