...appointed these lights, their motion, office and use to com pass the earth, to rule the day and the night, and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. Q. 9. What was God's work on, the fifth day ? ., , ,,; "A. On the fifth day, I. God made of the waters,...

...stars, which were " set in the " firmament " firmament of Heaven to divide the day from the " night, and to be for signs and for seasons, and " for days and for years." It was not necessary that he should tell them, how this moral system was destroyed, by the wiles of...

...the other planets, as he has done for that which we inhabit, giving them lights in their firmaments, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years, and dividing the light from the darkness, he deduces the presumption, that the Creator has not left...

...created ; and they were at the same time appointed to be " for lights, to give light upon the earth ; and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." At this same time therefore, that is, when these bodies were first created, the motions in the orbits...

...celestial bodies shall retain their course, whicli the Creator planted in the firmament of beaveo, ' to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years,' so long shall mankind be tare that they consecrate to the memory of these wonderful events, their proper...

...beauty and splendour, »nd were appointed not only " to divide the day from the night," but also " to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years," until the time which they measure be no more. In further elucidation of the above view, it may be remarked,...

...the stars also, and placed the whole of them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day, and over the night, to divide the light from the darkness, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years, and it was so, and the evening and morning...

...two great luminaries, the sun and moon, and the stars also, to " rule the day, and rule the night," and to be for " signs and for seasons, and for days, and for years." Vers. 14—18. This passage strikes at the root of the earliest species of idolatry, the Zabian, or...

...when we read that God set the luminaries in the firmament of heaven to rule the day and the night, and to be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years ; though we assuredly know that this can be only a secondary and subordinate design answered by these...

...fourth day, or epoch of the creation, " that God made two great lights to divide the day from the night, and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." The very first time that the term occurs in the Hebrew text, after the history of the six days1 work,...