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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 1:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, etc.] To continue there as luminous bodies; as enlighteners, as the word signifies, causing light, or as being the instruments of conveying it, particularly to the earth, as follows: to give light upon the earth; and the inhabitants of it, when formed: and it was so: these lights were formed and placed in the firmament of the heaven for such uses, and served such purposes as God willed and ordered they should.
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