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29. From all these truths, of which they doubt not whose inner eye
Thou hast granted 'to see such things, and who immoveably believe,
Moses, Thy servant, to have spoken in the spirit of truth; from all
these, then, he taketh one who saith, "In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth," that is, "In His Word,
co-eternal with Himself, God made the intelligible and the
sensible, or the spiritual and corporeal creature." He taketh
another, who saith, "In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth," that is, "In His Word, co-eternal with
Himself, God made the universal mass of this corporeal world, with
all those manifest and known natures which it containeth." He,
another, who saith, "In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth,' 'that is, "In His Word, co-eternal with Himself,
God made the formless matter of the spiritua. and corporeal
creature." He, another, who saith, "In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth' that is, "In His Word,
co-eternal with Himself, God made the formless matter of the
corporeal creature, wherein heaven and earth lay as yet confused,
which being now distinguished and formed, we, at this day, see in the
mass of this world." He, another, who saith, "In the beginning
God created heaven and earth, " that is, "In the very beginning
of creating and working, God made that formless matter confusedly
containing heaven and earth, out of which, being formed, they now
stand out, and are manifest, with all the things that are in them."
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