 | George Mackenzie - 1711 - 668 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Charles Thompson (fict. name.) - 1744 - 470 pàgines
...by the Perfians. •THis laft Opinion agrees very well with the facred Text, which informs us, that a River went out of Eden to water the Garden, and from thence it was parted, and became into four Heads ; which Words manifetUy imply, that in Eden the River was but one, w one... | |
 | L. D. Nelme - 1772 - 168 pàgines
...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 ;§ and " from thence it was parted, || and became into four heads: c< the name of the fiift is Pifon ;f that is it that furround", " or... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 492 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pàgines
...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 : and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. n The name of the firft is Pifon : that is it which compafTeth the whole... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1793 - 412 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Horne - 1793 - 410 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pàgines
...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, and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." Now the most probable account that is given of these four rivers, we conceive... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pàgines
...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 from thence it was parted and became into four heads." This river k fuppofrd to be the common channel of the Euphrates and Tigris,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1790 - 736 pàgines
...Culh. This opinion fcems exaclly to coincide with the facred text; which informs us that " A "ver went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into foiy heads." Thefe words evidently imply, that, in Eden the river •tad but one channel... | |
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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. 
