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Short Comments

FOR USE IN FAMILY WORSHIP,

ON

EIGHTY PASSAGES

OF THE

BOOK OF GENESIS.

BY

W. I. TROWER, D.D.
Bishop, Rector of Ashington, Sub-Dean of Exeter.

LONDON:

HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY.

1875.

101. i.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

DURING nearly half a century, it has been my practice to begin the family worship, which, by God's undeserved goodness, I have conducted for so long a period, by explaining some passage of Holy Scripture in a plain and conversational manner. Before doing so I have often, if not generally, looked into Matthew Henry's ever suggestive Com mentary, and of late years into the devout and learned work of the present Bishop of Lincoln; and I am anxious to refer any person into whose hands this little volume may come, to those admirable Commentaries, from which most of the thoughts in these brief expositions, and, here and there, whole sentences, have been gathered. The expositions in this volume have, therefore, little or no claim to originality; and when friends have

from time to time, requested me to write down and print for general use, what seemed to them suitable for family instruction, I have pleaded not only the cost of publication, but also that whatever had seemed to them worthy of being printed, was to be found far better expressed, in the works to which I have referred. In yielding at length (so far as relates to the Book of Genesis), to a request repeatedly made, I will only add that whether or not this volume shall be followed (if my life be spared) by similar comments on any other book of Holy Scripture, will depend on the degree in which its circulation may give reason to hope that, by the blessing of God, the publication thus requested has not been useless.

ASHINGTON RECTORY,
June 21, 1875.

W. I. TROWER.

SHORT COMMENTARY

FOR

USE IN FAMILY WORSHIP.

GENESIS, i. 1-19.

I In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be

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