In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
COMMENTARIES ON THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED GENESIS BY JOHN CALVIN TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, AND COMPARED WITH THE FRENCH EDITION, BY THE REV. JOHN KING, M.A., OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, INCUMBENT OF CHRIST'S CHURCH, HULL VOLUME FIRST CHRISTIAN CLASSICS ETHEREAL LIBRARY GRAND RAPIDS, MI http://www.ccel.org Translator’s Preface Several of the Commentaries of Calvin on different portions of the Holy Scripture having been...
The world is a great house, stately and magnificent in every room, the upper and lower stories well furnished. We confess God the Father Almighty as the Maker of heaven and earth; yet the visible heavens hold invisible glory, celestial beings more precious than gold or sapphires, of which Moses here says nothing, fixing on the visible alone.
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Commenting on Genesis 1:1-2
These heavens and earth lay in chaotic, unadorned state when first created, the expanse not yet stretched out, no light placed in the heavens, the dry land not yet separated from waters. The words point to the visible cosmos, matter and substance brought into being by almighty power before any shaping or decoration.
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