[129] This latter view might be fairly maintained in conformity with the principles which Saint Augustine professes to follow in the interpretation of Genesis. See De Genesi ad Literam, Lib. i. cap. xxi. and cap. xxii.
[130] See De Genesi ad Literam, Lib. i. cap. xv.; De Genesi Liber Imperfectus, cap. vii.; Confess., Lib. xii. cap. xxix.
[131] 2 Peter, iii. 8.
[132] Appendix (18) (19) (20).
[133] Wisdom, ix. 13-16.
[134] See Pianciani, Cosmogonia, pp. 384-90.
[135] See Gesenius, Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures; in voce. He thus explains the first meaning of this word: “copulative, and serves to connect both words and sentences, especially in continuing a discourse.”
[136] Appendix (21).
[137] See De Genesi ad Literam, Lib. iv. capp. xxvi.-xxxv., Lib. v. cap. i. n. 3, and cap. iii. n. 6.
[138] Ecclesiasticus, xviii. 1.