In the beginning God created heaven and earth, and the earth was formless and empty [wüst und leer];[1] and it was dark upon the deep. And the spirit of God hovered over the water. THE PLACE WHERE THE BIBLE begins is one where our own most impassioned waves of thinking break, are thrown back upon themselves, and lose their strength in spray and foam. The first word of the Bible has hardly for a moment surfaced before us, before the waves frantically rush in upon it
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