 | George Horne - 1793 - 410 pages
...ground the Lord God made DIsC. "to grow every tree that is pleafant to the " fight, and good for food. And a river " went out of Eden, to water the Garden ; " and from thence it was parted, and be" came into four heads." Thus the great architect of the univerfe, he who, in the language of the... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1793 - 412 pages
...made r> 3 "to pi sc. " to grow" every tree that is pleafant to the l^_ " fight, and good for food. And a river " went out of Eden, to water the Garden ; " and from thence it was parted, and be" came into four heads." Thus the great architect of the univerfe, he who, in the language of the... | |
 | George Horne - Sermons, English - 1794 - 460 pages
...the ground the Lord God made -to grow every tree that is pleafant to the fight^ and good for food.. And a river went out of Eden, to water the Garden...thence it was parted, and became into four heads." Thus -the great architeft of the univerfe, "he who., in the language of the apoftle, « built all thin^v'... | |
 | 1795 - 766 pages
...MOSES mentions the following circumftances (Gen. eh. u. vv. to. &c.) " And a river went out of Edin to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into /our heads : the name of the firil is Pifan ; — the name of the fécond ibGibon; — the name of... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...233. And now divided into four main streams,] This is grounded upon the words of Moses, Gen. ii. 10. " And a river went out of Eden to water the garden,...thence it was parted, and became into four heads." Now the most probable account that is given of these four rivers, we conceive to be this : The river... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...и г Л opinions concerning its fltuation, fome of them very wild and extravagant. Mofes fays, that "a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and...thence it was parted and became into four heads." This river k fuppofrd to be the common channel of the Euphrates and Tigris, after their confluence... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1790 - 736 pages
...Culh. This opinion fcems exaclly to coincide with the facred text; which informs us that " A "ver went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into foiy heads." Thefe words evidently imply, that, in Eden the river •tad but one channel ; but when... | |
 | Edward Wells - Bible - 1801 - 418 pages
...the fmour rivers. ^ cllannelj wnich |s common to all the four rivers. For the facred text fays, that a river went out of Eden, to water the Garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four beads. Which words manifeftly imply, that in Eden the river was but one, that is, that it was but a... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 446 pages
...experimentally to knoto tlie difference between moral good and evil, 10 And a river went out of the land o/'Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four 11 heads, or principal streams* The name of the first [is] Pison : that [is] it which compasseth, or... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 444 pages
...experimentally to know the difference between moral good and evil. 10 And a river went out x>f the land (a/" Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into fouf" 1 1 heads, or principal streams.* The name of the first [is] Pi* son : that [is] it which compasseth,... | |
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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,... 
