1 Charles Spurgeon held to a version of “the gap theory,” which is the idea that fire and ice ages fit into a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Few evangelical scholars today hold to that view, but it was quite popular in Spurgeon’s day.
2 Privately.
3 At this point, the audience could not be restrained, but stopped the speaker with cheers and laughter, to which he answered, “Nay, do not stop me in the middle of a sentence. My rule is not to mention names, and yet you have found a name hidden in a harmless word.”