Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.—Galatians, iv. 3.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?—Galatians, iv. 9.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.—II. Peter, iii. 10.
I cavilled at the elements—what is earth?
A huge congestion of unmethodized matter
With but a skin of life—a mighty solid,
Which nature’s prodigal of space provides
For superficial uses; and what air?
A motion and a pressure; fire? a change;
And light? the language of the things called dumb.