...lifted me." Mr. Alexander made no comment, as he ordinarily might have done, for he knew full well that the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters, and that human hearts were too full even to give expression to their emotion in any song of whatever singular...

...heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. — Genesis 1:1-2 When it became known that I proposed to deal with the biblical story of creation...

...in relation to the problem of dualism, and therefore we defer to Ridderbos' exegesis of Genesis l:2b ("the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters"). Ridderbos stresses the connection between the breath (ruach) and the speaking of God (op. cit., p....

...heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters." 2 1 See generally, Rudolf Bultmann, Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting, In the first...

...heavens and the earth, the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. This is the rendering favoured by most modern translations, eg Moffatt, NEB. Note, however, that for...

...we should remember the role, which the spirit plays in the creation account in the Old Testament : "and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters".*1 And it is exactly in Alexandria, that the Jewish philosopher Philo in quoting Gen. 2:7 ventures...

...beginning God created the heaven and the Earth. The Earth was without form, and darkness was upon the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." So, modern cosmology affirms, in the beginning there...

...(empheresthai) over the water.18 In other words, Numenius used an allegorical interpretation of Gen. 1 : 2 ( — "and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters") to buttress his view of the coupling of soul and body. Nor is this the only occasion on which he did...

...salvation (as also in the internal life of the Trinity) is "kenotic": it is always directed to the Other. The "Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters" (Gen 1:2) at the very inception of creation. The Word, however, was the One "by whom all things were...

...life. God's Spirit was involved in the production of all life in the world as we read in Genesis (1:2): "The Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters." It is the Spirit that gives life, both physical and spiritual. In order to have eternal life a man...