 | George Mackenzie - Authors, Scottish - 1711 - 668 pages
...Controveify will ftill appear in a better Light, by what NLfes has, Verfe 10. of this Chapter, <dnd a River went out of Eden to Water the Garden, and...from thence it was parted and became into Four Heads. About the Meaning of thefe Words there is a great Variety of Opinions For fome think, that this River... | |
 | Charles Thompson (fict. name.) - 1744 - 470 pages
...Eden given us by Mofes, which is as follows : And the Lord God planted a garden eaftward in Eden : — And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ;...thence it was parted, and became into four Heads. The name of the firft is Pifon ; that is it which compajfeth the whole land of Havilab, where there... | |
 | L. D. Nelme - Language and languages - 1772 - 168 pages
...not have been unknown to tlie iirft man. Mofes informs us, that fc God planted a garden in Eden ;j " -and a river went out of Eden to water the garden...thence it was parted, || and became into four heads: c< the name of the fiift is Pifon ;f that is it that furround", " or compaffeth3 the whole land of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...pleaiant to the fight, and good for food : 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...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 - 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'... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 608 pages
...Newton. 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 the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden : and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 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... 
