 | Henry Woodward - 1866 - 528 pagine
...varied operations ? Is it in vain for you that God has placed His lights in the firmament of heaven, to be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years, and caused this globe on which you tread to shape her annual voyage through the ocean of wide space,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1868 - 752 pagine
...forth in the sky ; and two greater lights were set in the firmament, to divide the day fi-)m the night, and to be " for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years." Then the finny-tribes sported in " the waters of the seas," the birds of heaven filled the air with... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 920 pagine
...philosophy. " At the creation, the two great lights, the sun and the moon, were ordained, among other uses, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years, Gen. i. 14. But seasons and years are produced by this obliquity. If, then, seasons and years existed... | |
 | James Gall - 1871 - 428 pagine
...of the heavens, " to give light upon the earth ; the sun to rule over the day, and the moon to rule over the night, to divide the light from the darkness, and to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years." We may add, that the introduction of " the stars also," seems almost decisive... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pagine
...assigned to the sun and moon and stars, which are made to shine upon the earth on the fourth day, viz. to be ' for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years ' (i. 1 4) — seems clearly intended for the advantage of God's intellectual creature, man. But upon... | |
 | William Kelly - 1872 - 520 pagine
...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." D 2 mous length of time necessary for light to be transmitted — though this again is more than they... | |
 | John Phin - 1872 - 110 pagine
...were ordained as regulators of night and day, being appointed " to divide the day from the night " and " to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." From this time forward, therefore, not only is the sun the great source of light to the earth, but... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood - 1872 - 268 pagine
...perform a more extended function, — to regulate and apportion the periods of summer and winter, — to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. The Triassic period, which appears to answer to the fourth day's work, is, for some reason or other,... | |
 | John Jaques (Mormon.) - 1870 - 94 pagine
...in the expanse of the heaven, and caused them to divide the day from the night ; and organized them to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years ; and organized them to be for lights in the expanse of the heaven, to give light upon the earth ;... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1874 - 624 pagine
...forth in the sky ; and wo greater lights were set in the firmament, to divide the day from the night, and to be " for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years." Then the finny-tribes sported in " the waters of the seas,' the birds of heaven filled the air with... | |
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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. 
