As every nation had its cosmogony to account for the origin of things, the Jews must have theirs likewise; so the scribes, who compiled their legends, imitated very closely the Zoroastrian fable, according to which the gods made the world in six gahanbars, or periods; of which the story in Genesis, even to the detail of work done in each day, is a mere copy; but the Jewish compiler mistook the matter so far as to put _days_ in place of periods, or _gahanbars_; which word was significant of the six summer months, when the sun, by his genial and all-powerful impulse, makes a fresh creation every year. The learned have farther declared that, in the Talmuds, the expression in the first verse of Genesis is in the plural, viz. "the Elohim" (the gods) placed in order the heavens and the earth that in the same verse, the word "barah," which signifies to arrange, to place in order, has been mistranslated "created" In like manner the words "ruh elohim," in the second verse, have been falsely rendered "spirit of God," though their true meaning is, _the wind of the gods_.*** * Dr. Geddes, however, is of opinion that Moses learnt the name of Jehovah in Midian, while he resided with his father- in-law. ** The Indians had their Vedas and Pouranas; the Egyptians, the five books of Hermes; the Persians, the cosmogony of Zoroaster; the Greeks, that of Hesiod; the Phoenicians, that of Sanchoniatho. The Phoenician, though written in the style of history, is made up of personifications of time, the sun, the stars, earth, seasons, etc. *** In St. John's Gospel iii, 5 and 6, the Greek word pneuma (air or wind), is translated spirit; and in the 8th verse it is translated, "wind" and "spirit" both. In Luke i, 85, is not this word pneuma translated "Ghost"?