The manner of this communication to man, may also be a subject of doubt.

Whether it was, or was not, made by a voice of words, may be questioned.

But, surely, that Being who, in creating the world and its inhabitants, manifested his own infinite wisdom, eternal power, and godhead, does not lack words, or any other means of signification, if he will use them.

And, in the inspired record of his work in the beginning, he is certainly represented, not only as naming all things imperatively, when he spoke them into being, but as expressly calling the light _Day_, the darkness _Night_, the firmament _Heaven_, the dry land _Earth_, and the gatherings of the mighty waters _Seas_.
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Dr.Thomas Hartwell Horne, in commending a work by Dr.Ellis, concerning the origin of human wisdom and understanding, says: "It shows satisfactorily, that religion _and language_ entered the world by divine revelation, without the aid of which, man had not been a rational or religious creature."-- _Study of the Scriptures_, Vol.