CREATOR, Creation, to create. These Terms properly signify a Passage from Non-entity to Being; the production of something out of nothing, or the Act of God, producing things out of nothing. The Hebrews make use of the verb Bara, to signify Creation properly speaking, and Ποιεῖν, κτί-ζειν.have no words, which now accurately express it. But this, as well as the Latin, Creo, is used also sometimes to denote the Conformation of Matter only, the change of its Form, State and Situation. Creation successive and simultaneous. See upon this Subject the Article Sabbath.
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