Verse 2
2. Mountains were brought forth Or, born. A poetic figure in beautiful harmony with the teachings of geological science. The earth and the [terraqueous] world The dry land and the globe, for ארצ , ( erets,) must here be understood of dry land as distinguished from the ocean. The fundamental passage is Genesis 1:10. The description forms an ascending climax as to the age of the oldest things known mountains, dry land, world, or globe. Having reached the date of creation, all beyond is “from eternity to eternity.”
Thou art God Thou alone art God, the Being of absolute power, as the name אל , el, denotes. On the absolute power and eternity of this Being hangs the existence of frail man.
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