 | Universal history - 1779 - 492 pages
...confidered (d) Thev, Trav. part ii. chap. 9. And the Lord God a .garden eaftward in (C) planted Eden ; and a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four-heads. The name of the firft is Pifon (Fiflion) ; that is it which compaflcth the whole land of... | |
 | Arthur O'Leary - Early printed books - 1781 - 678 pages
...the. following words : " The name of the " firft river is Pifon ; that is it which compaff" eth the land of Havilah, where there is gold; " and the gold of that land is good : and there " is bdellium and the onyx-ftone." By gold, doubtlefs, he muft mean charity or... | |
 | Arthur O'Leary - Bibliography - 1781 - 426 pages
...in the following words : " The name of the " firft river is Pifon; that is it which compafT" eth the land of Havilah, where there is gold : ** and the gold of that la/id is good : and there ** is bdellium and the onyx-ftone." By gold, doubtlefs, he muft mean charity... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...: the tree of life alfo in the midft of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden :...thence it was parted, and became into four heads. n The name of the firft is Pifon : that is it which compafTeth the whole land of Havilah, where there... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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... | |
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 
