The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science

by Sir John William Dawson

[62] This name is exactly identical in meaning with the Hebrew Jehovah Elohim.

[63] Müller, Sanscrit Literature.

[64] The theology of the Institutes is clearly primitive Semitic in its character; and therefore, if the Bible is true, must be older than the Aryan theogony of the Rig-Veda, as expounded by Müller, whatever the relative age of the documents.

[65] "Recent Advances in Physical Science."

[66] Croll's "Climate and Time" contains some interesting facts as to this.

[67] See the discussion of this in the author's "Story of the Earth," and in Sir William Thomson's British Association Address, 1876.

[68] Daniell's Meteorological Essays; Prout's Bridgewater Treatise; art. "Meteorology," Encyc. Brit.; "Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea."

[69] Kaemtz, "Course of Meteorology."

[70] Encyc. Brit., art. "Meteorology."

[71] It is not meant that the word rakiah occurs in these passages, but to show how by other words the idea of stretching out or extension rather than solidity is implied. The verb in the first two passages is nata, to spread out.