The Doctrine of Creation (7)

Before calling attention to the writings of Hodge and Calvin on the Scriptural doctrine of creation, we wish to quote briefly from two or three others. First, we would quote from St. Hilary of Poitiers. He is declared to have been of the greatest, yet least studied, of the Fathers of the Western Church. This disciple of Origin was born about the year 300 A.D., and he died in the year 367. He became bishop of Poitiers about the year 350, but later went into exile and was replaced by an Arian,...