14. מאור mā'ôr — “a light, a luminary, a center of radiant light.”

מועה mô‛ēd — “set time, season.”

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EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM.

Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Ge…

Whether the sun and moon are here said to be absolutely created, or whether they were only created as far as our planet was concerned by the dense …

The greater light. I have said that Moses does not here subtly elaborate, as a philosopher, on the secrets of nature, as is evident in the…

And God made two great lights This was his own work which he himself did, and not by another; and may be particularly obs…

In the fourth day's work, the creation of the sun, moon, and stars is accounted for. All these are the works of God. The stars are spoken of as the…