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Hasty readers and preachers and commentators have been all too willing to treat 1:1 as a summary, who imagine that God's beginning creation is detailed under the days below.
- Not so... "and" precludes this interpretation. Compare 5:1, where "and" is absent and the first verse is a summary of the chapter following, the generations of Adam.
5:1 is an abstract of the chapter.

Two types of persons have misunderstood scripture:
- Upright christians who have attached their own wrong notions to the scripture
- Men of science who have mis-read scripture to malign it.
Both are at fault; God's word is not.

The Hebrew grammar of 1:1-1:2 expressly connects the facts of the two verses and expressly separates the times:
In the beginning, however long ago, was the creation.
Subsequently, however long after, was chaos.

To say, "And the earth was without form, and void" does not limit the space between the creation and the ruin.
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