[285] Ps. xxxiii. 9.
[286] Gen. i. 4.
[287] "Can any one sensible of the value of words suppose," (asks Mr. Goodwin,) "that nothing more is here described, or intended to be described, than the partial clearing away of a fog?" (Essays and Reviews, pp. 227-8.) No one,—we answer. But to the question, we venture to rejoin another. To whom does this philosopher suppose his pleasantry likely to prove injurious? Is he making Moses ridiculous, or—himself?
[288] St. John ix. 5, &c.
[289] 1 Tim. vi. 16.
[290] 2 Cor. iv. 6.
[291] "Whether the writer regarded them as already existing, and only waiting to have a proper place assigned them, may be open to question." (E. and R., p. 221.) We accept the alternative given us by Mr. Goodwin.
[292] Job xxxviii. 7.
[293] Alluding to 1 Kings vii. 21.
[294] The test of Elohim and Jehovah has been, by the Germans themselves, given up; "and for this plain reason,—that in many parts of Genesis, [e.g. ch. xxviii. 16-22: xxxi.: xxxix., &c.] it is utterly untenable; the names being so intermingled as to admit of no such division." See the Appendix (C) to the Rev. Henry John Rose's Hulsean Lectures for 1833,—p. 233.