contents of the chapter. It would be difficult to write in these subjects without employing this particular vocabulary. Genesis 1 is monumental in character, and exhibits a stately cadence of grandeur as it reveals the sovereign Creator uttering His will, and that will coming to immediate fulfilment. So the narrative proceeds until it reaches its mighty climax. The Lord beholds the finished world and pronounces it very good. We are not to regard the chapter as the reworking by the Priestly School
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