Psa. xxxiii. 6, and so Psa. cii. 25; cf. 2 Peter iii. 5.
Waste (R.V.).
It also needs only to be remarked, in passing, that we are really in complete ignorance as to the light-medium, the "luminiferous-ether" outside the comparatively thin stratum of our own terrestrial atmosphere. We do not know whether there might not have been a condition of the medium in which, up to the moment of a creative fiat, it was incapable of transmitting light-waves.