PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis
Thomas Whitelaw [1840-1917] · 541,608 words · 594 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 121
HOMILETICS. Yer. 7.-Tl.e.first man. I. MADE FROM TllE DUST. This does not imply that in the C'omposition of humanity there is nothing but particles cf dust, or "molecules. of 111attcr." Simply it designs to state that the point of departure in man's creation was tl,c soil ont of which all other living creatures wer…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 8.-In accordance with a well-known Luke x:..,iil. 43) eastward (mekedein, liter- chnracteristic of Hebrew composition, tho ally, from the front quarter, not from l he writer, h11ving carried his subject forward to beginuing,-a,ro apxik, Aquila; EV ,rpwro,~·. a convenient place of rest, now reverts to …
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is Rfterwar<ls more exactly defined (vers. 10, all, it being "for thoir good to have their 14). In the menn time it is simply noted wits shnrpcnrd" (WillEt); or in what I'll• thnt, this enchanting paradise having been spect they suffered lo~s through listening sperinlly prcpnro<l by Jehovah, there he put to the temp…
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in I\ spot whero some great flowing water is particular the southern district of the former subdivided into four separate streams ; if lying between tho Persian Gulf and the Rerl tho former be rcg1trcled as the proper exegesis, Sea. Hence Tayler Lewis finds the Gihon in then nny grcnt river which is first formed by …
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th~ Indns and the Nile; and Tayler Lewis the ver~• terms of his existence, ho wna under regarding them ns the two sides of the Per- obli~at1on to do, npart n.ltogether from ony Binn Gulf. Sir H. Rawlinson, from a. study spoc1fic enactment which God might enjoin. of the AssJ7ian texts, has pointed out tho As n moral …
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HOMILETICS. Ver. 8.-T!te (Jarden of Eden. I. A SCENE OF BEAUTY. Whether situated in Ar'!1cnia. or Bt1byloni~ (sec Exposition), it was _a fair sl?ot in a sunny region of delights (Eden). Tine beauty was-1. Luxuriant. Milton has lavished all tl11J wealth of hie creative genius in on attempt to depict "t.he happy rura…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 8-17.-.Jfon's first dwelling-place. The description of Eden commences an entirely new stage in the record. We are now entering upon the history of humanity as such. I. The first fact in that history is a state of II PLEASANTNESS." The garden is planted by God. The trees are adapt…
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EXPOSITION. '\\>r. 18.-In anticipntinn of \he ensuing for whom (seeing that his naturo is to dis- narrnti~e of the temptation alld the fnll, pense happiness to his creatures) no rnot·e the historian, having ciepicted man's settle- than for Adam would it hn,·c been good thnt ment in Eden, 1\llrnnces to complete llis…
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woro not hl'oUf(h t into tho garrlon, if other founder! on the Lest of reasons, though what ronson is roqmred beeicles thnt of physical they were it is impossible to discover, a.~ it i~ impossibility, tho ingenuity of Keil suggests not absolutely certain tha.t Adam spoke in that tlrn~o were not so neo.rly relatecl to A…
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n type (Ronnr) ;-yet it mny he doubted if terms ns father and mother, or in the fact 1 here is not as much truth in the rcmMk that the sentiment is prophetic, to prevent 1 hnt "by the mnny words usetl in the !icncra- the words from being rognrded as n continu- 1 ion of mnnkin<l, as creah'.ng (eh. 1. 27), ation of Ad…
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duties," In which cnn be cletcctecl n refcrcnco enjoy u11i11tcrruptcd hnp1,incs~, in a region to something which is eaton Ly the stomach, free from sin.ifolly, ,.iolence, poverty, deform, to the cluty of clnily invocation of the Deity, ity. The Teutonic Edclas have a glimpse to the do.uger of lenving Gocl's fcnr, in wh…
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to attend npon l1er bidding; there must likewise be a husband thnt feels the need of l1er sm••ct society, that long-s for her coming, nnd tl1r,t can npprccinte her worth. Hence he who llC'C'ks n pnrtner should first find n house in which to lodp;e her, tho lll<'nns to rnpport hn, but specially the. love whn_ewilh to …
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Hm.IILIES BY VAilIOUS AUTHORS. Vera. 18-25.-T!te tnie life of man. The commencement of human society. First we see man surrounded by cattle, fowl, and beast of the field, which were brou,!!;ht to him by God as to their lord and ruler, that he might name them as from himself. "What lie called every living creature was …
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gcrirsis or cYil with 1~,forcnce to man. Nor of Ormuzd nnJ Ahriman (vide iiif,ra, ''l'rodi- even witl1 regnrd to tl1is docs it aim at an tions of the FRll '). But hero the 111\mo rom11rk cxhausth·e dissertation, but only at such a will apply Its waR made in connection with the statement of its beginnings ns shnll de…
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pre-eminent subtlety, which J not now a and more likely to be easily persuaded (1 characteristic of serpents, " nn _intimation Tim. ii. 14 ; 1 Pet. iii. i). Cf. Satan's as- that the repH!c was no creature of cnrth, or sault on Job through his wife (Job ii. 9). one that received its form from God," an Milton's idea t…
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nothing of him or his clisposition, she shoulcl a,',roii). "Here, as far us wo know, is his not ha'<'"e opened herself so freely to a person first begottten lie" (Bush). unknown. "The woman certainly discovers Ver. 5.-For (1;:J-nam, rap, for, because; some uuad viscdncss in entertaining conference assigning the reas…
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restoring sight t~ the Llind _(2 Kin.i;s vi. signe,l to indicate the complete per.-cc,rlon 17, 20; Pa. cxlv1. 8; Isa. xln. 7), 1s nl~o hy Evo of the Divine purpose of her ninr- usetl to tlcnoto tho impartation of power to riegc with Adam, which was to be a help- rerccil·o (physically, mentally, spiritno.lly) meet fo…
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text, wl1kh "opens "·hero the gods Rl"C enrs- waters of the rinr, but who himself w11s ing tl10 dragon nnd the Adnm or man for ultimately destroyed by Krishun trampling his trnnsgrcssion." ... "The dragon, wl1ich, on his head, bcnrs a striking analogy to the in the Chnl,fonn ncronnt, leads mnn to sin, Mosaic story (…
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IIOMILETICS. Ver. 6.-Tliefirst sin.-I. THE TEMPTATION. 1. ThD/ctct. That sin i,; p0ssihlc e,o,n in pure beings without the intervention of solicitation, at Je,i,st ab extra, 11111st ho heir! lo hll the doctrine of Scripture (vide James i. 14 and Jude 6). 1Icnc0 man might hnvo fallen, even had he not been tempted. The …
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Its essential wickednc,~s, as consisting of (1) unbelief, revealing itself ir. diaobedienco, (2) ~<'lfis!rn<'ss, making self the centre of all things; (3) desire, lovo of the world; g-r;it1ficnt1on of the senses, the funcfamentnl elements in all sin, c<>rreaponding to the thrPc fnnda~entnl_ ~lemcnts of_ man's bein13…
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III. Tm: 'l'EMPTATION IS IlASJm ON A LIE; first soliciting the mind throw-Ji a f(Uestion, a perplexity, then passing to a direct contradiction of God's word,'' and hl11sphemous suggestion of Ins ill-will towards man, togetler with an excitement of pride and overweening desire in man's heart. The serpent did not directl…
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EXPOSITION. Yer. 8.-Ana they hea.ra the voice of the characteristic of our redemption-needing hu- Lora God. Either (1) the noise of his foot- manity" (Lange). And I hid myself. steps (cf. Lc,;t xxvi. 33; Num. x,;. 34 ; 2 Vers. 11, 12.-And he sa.ia. "To reprove 8am. v. 24; Knobel, Delit?.sch, Keil, Kaliscl1, the sot…
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elmply accepting tho admission, nnd po.asing difficulty than the cursing of the earth (ver, on, " following up tho tranegreseion even to 17), or of the fig tree (Matt. xi. 21 ). Creatures tho root-not tho psychological merely, but can be cursed or blessed only in accordance the historical" (Lange): What is this that…
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gaYc rise to the oolief entertained by mn,ny difficulty of dccidins- with absoluto certainty Enstern nnt.ions, And referred to in seve1t1.1 between theso rival mterpromtions. I's. xoi. Diblicnl nllusions (Isa. !xv. 25 ; Micah vii. 13 and Rom. xvi. 20 appear to s1tnction the l 7)-thnt they cnt <lust" (Kalisch). More …
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mnn with supremacy over the woman ; or under 11 doom of sterility (cf. R'lm. viii. 20). rather n confirmation and perpetuation of For thy sake. ':J:)~::l~.fl· 1. Because of thy thnt authority which hnd boon assigned to sin it required to ho such a world. 2. For the man nt the creation. Woman hacl been thy good it was b…
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HOMILETICS. _,~cr!t. ~-l~.-Tlte_.7frst judgm,ent scene. I. Tm. FLIGHT OF TRI': CRIMINALS. 1. It M fhe mstinct of sinful men to.flee from God. "Adam and his wifo hid themselves frnm _the presc-nce of the Lord God" (ver. 8). So "Jonah rose up to flee unto Tan-h_,sh from the p~esence of_the Lord" (Jonah i. 3). (1) Thr…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 8.-The woi·king of the sin-stricken conscience. I. GoD THE JUDGE REVEAL- ING BIMSELF. 'l'he voice of the Lord God represents to men the knowledge of them- selves, which, like light, would be intolerable to the shamefaced. II. MAN HIDING Fnoir THE JUDGE BECAUSE UNABLE TO MEET Hur. Whi…
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Vera. 9-24.-.The word of God in tlie moral cliaos. These verses bring before us very distinctly the elements of man's sinful state, and of the redemptive dispensa, tion of God which came out of it by the action of bis brooding Spirit of life upon the chaos. • I. THE WOUD OF Goo ADDRESSED TO THE PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNE…
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bruise Mm" (Isa. !iii. 10), "Througl, death he destroyed kim that ltad the power of death," &o. (Heh. ii. 14). It must have been itself like a. revelation of redeeming love ·thnt God pronounced sentence farst upon the serpent, not upon man, thereby teaching him tha.t he wll!I in the sight of God a victim of the evil po…
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EXPOSITION. 1er. 20.-.Arraigned, convicted, judged, man and English, mama ;-Gesenius) of all the guilty but pardoned pair prepare to leave living. (1) Of Adam's children, though in their g:mlen borne-the woman to begin her this respect she might liave been so styled experience of sorrow, dependence, and sub- from t…
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do wl111t be gives orders or instructions to be the inherent beauty of the one and essential mnde or done. Willet end Macdonald, how- turpitude of the other as is acquired by ever, prefer to think that the garments were beings who pass through the experience of a nctunlly fashioned by God. Bush finds in fall, and th…
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nml mini~tcr to him," t.1king ccrub =karov, symbolic not of the fulncss of tho Deity to come ncnr, to son·e (Hyde). 4. The en.grnv- (Bahr), nor of the sum of earthly lifo (Hcng- ings or cnn·ed figures; from carav (Syriac), stenberg), nor of tho angelic nnturo (Cnlvinh to cngrnvc (Tayler Lewis); from an Egyptian nor …
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Thnt nil thia was comprehended with perfect fulness and clearness by the prrnloncrl pnir it would he foolish to nssert; but, in !l fnshion accommodate,\ to their simple intelligences, the germ of this doctrine was exhibited by the coats of skin with which they w~te arrnyed, nnd it is at lenat possible that they had …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Yer. 21.-0overing. God's chief promises generally accompnnied by visible sign ■ or symholi~al acts; e. g., bow in the_ cloud, furnace and lamp (Gen, xv, 17), passover, &c. The time here spoken of spec1ally called for such n sign. Man had fallen ; n Deliverer was promised; it was the beginn…
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EXPOSITION. One, why might not Eve have done so in the CHAPTER IV. first 1 (Bonar) ; (2). that if the thoughtq of Ver. !.-Exiled from Eden, o'er-canopied ]!ve had been "!nnmg s_o closely on the iden- hy ism.cc, animated by hope, assuretl of the tity of the commg Dehverer with Jehovah Divme forgiveness, anti. filled …
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is not 11ecess:1ril,r implic,l in the toxt, And 1 Kings xv111. 38; Jerome, Chrysostom, Abel was a keeper ofsheep (1ro<f< ,),, 1rpo/3arw,,, Cyril). Theodotion renders lvi1ritp1aw, fa. LXX. ; the lot.tor form indmles goats-Levit. fimninant; nnd Hob. xi. 4, µaprvpoi,vroc i. 10), but Cain we.a a tiller of the ground. ,,…
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tranai:;ressor, but patiently expostula.tee with of sin (Onkelos, Grotius, Cornelius a Lapid& and mstructs him as to how he too might Ainsworth), the guilt of sin, the sense of obtain the samo blessing of acceptance which unpardoned transgression ; "interius coa- his younger brother enjoyed. scicntire judicium, qnod…
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either to Abel or to a sin offering, regards Ver, 10.-Satislied thnt tho guilty l\·ntri• the langt11ige AS warning Cain against the cide is resolved to mako no acknowledgment dangers of yielding to sin. of his deed, the omniscient Judge pIQceeds yer. S.-~nd Ca.in talked _with (lite;ally, to chnrge him with his sin. …
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Tuch, Gerlach, Delitzech), as if nil that the The first of these is favoured by the re- aentence implied was banishment from Eden; maining portion of his address, which shows but must involvo in addition the idea that that that which had paralysed his guilty Lho curse wns to lenp upon him from the spirit was not the wi…
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Ylllgatc, Syriac, Dnthius, translate Not so- destroyed (Aben Ezra, DatheJ. Rosenmilller, .,;,x oi'•rw(', ,1eq11aqitam, reading ,:;,_ N~ in- Gesenius, Tuch, Kalisch, 1Jollt2sch). l11 support of the former it is urged that an Eknd of P~) whosoever slayeth Cain, ven- external badge would bo moro likely to repel geance sh…
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BUil pordoned sinners, who, hnving believed the Divine promise, had become partak8rs of the Divine mercy. There is no truo piety where there is no humble faith in the gospel. 3. A ha~JJJY home. At lenst it hnd e.11 the elements that wero needfol to surround them with earthly felicity: tho only true foundation on which …
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unworthy of God's ncceptance, but because, in presenting them, he virtunlly J.>r0• claimed his disbelief in God's promise and repudiation of God's way of salvntion, (2) V~'.bly proclaimed. By some outward sign God expressed in the one case hie approbatio_n, and i!1 the other hie displeasure. By the gospel he now sol…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. YerR. 1-8.-The kingdom of God. Another" genesis" is now described, that of sinful society, which prepares the way for the description of the rising kingdom of God. I. TIIE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL EVIL 19 CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH HUMAN SOCIETY. "\Ve m11st still bear in mind that the aim of the n…
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special rcsp€'rt. The type is here of all religious wars. Tho Cain ·spirit is not moro bloody-miml.c-dness, but all defiance of God, and self-a~sert.ion, as against his will and word. htndeli'.ty has been as bloody as superstitwn. Both meet in the same per1•erted woi·ship of self.-R. Ver. 9.-Care for our bretlwe:n,…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 17.-Domiciled in Noel, whither, im- xxil. 6) and to consecrate (Deut. xx. 5 ; 1 pelled by woman's love, his wife had accom- Kings viii. 63). Canillish detects in the panied him, the unhappy fugitive began to name the impious pride of the first murderer; seek, if not to find, relief from the gnaWU1g wi…
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Of course the -,,p which Cain orected was only similar, not identical (cf, with I rad, not n city accordi~g to modern ideas, but a Jared, descent; with Mehujaol, Mnha.laloel, keep or fort, enclosed with a wall for the praise of God; with Methusael1 Methuselah, defence of those who dwelt within (Murphy). man of the s…
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knai'1'en; so named either from its tremulous, wivea. The words have an archaic simplicity etridulous sound (Gesenius), or from its bent, which bespeak a high antiquity (vide Haver- nrched form (Furst). And the organ. 'Ugabh, nick's 'In trod.,' p. 105), naturally fall into from a root signifying to breathe or blow that…
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apprehcn si ,·e of some evil befalling their attaches to 1~ (cf. Ewald's 'Hcb. Syntax,' busbnnd throngh the use of 'l'ubal-caiu's § 353). And to Seth, to him also there wa.: de.uf!'crous weapons, thnt ihere was no cause born a eon. Thus tho expectations of Eve for their nnxietios and alarms, ns he lmcl not concerning …
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modern writers o.<lmit the great antiquity of man, most of them maintnin the very recent development of his intellect, and will hardly contemplate the pos,ibilit,y of men equal in mento.1 capacity to ourselves having existed in prehistoric (?) times'' (Wo.llace, Brit, Assoc. Address, 1876). For prehistoric write antedi…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTilORS. Vers. 16-24.-The kingd<im of God contrasted with tlie kingdom of this wr.,,.Zd, Society without the Lord. The banished Cain and his descendants. I. MULTIPLICATION apart from Divine order is no blessing. IL CIVILISATION without religion is a. chaos of conflicting forces, producing \·iole…
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CHAPTER V. ity among men, and recording the Divine resolution to destroy man, the name .Jehovah The present section carries fonvard the is used, the reason being that in hi~ sin and inspired narrative another stage, in which in his punishment man is viewed in his rela- the onward progress or development of the tions …
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YNs, 3-u.-At tho l1cad of the Adnmic to indicate that his haring n posterity nt nll ra,·c stands the firbt man, whose career is was conditioned by the ripeness of his faith. summarisc<l in three short verses, which At tho same time the lateness of paternity ~c1Tc as n mo<lcl for the subsequent bio- among these prime…
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the benefit of both the Church and the world. from the root of faith (Hcb. xi. 5). Yot And he died. "'fhe eolemn toll of the though pre-eminently spiritual and contem- po.trinrchnl funernl bell" (Bon11r). I ta con- plative, Jude tells us (vers. 14, 15) the patri- eto.nt recurronce nt the close of ea.eh biography arc…
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phrase 'and he died.' The one denotes Dyzantinus, and Suid11S, who corrupts the absence from the world of sense, 11.nd the name into Nannacus, to have lived bofore other indicatos t.ho ordinary way in which the flood of Deuciilion, to hiivo attainod 11n the soul depar~ from this :world" (Murphy). age of moro than 80…
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bestow upon his wonr'/ heritage ; or at most the younger son of Noah; (4) from eh. x. e. hope that the promise would be fulfilled in 2--31, in which tho order is reversed, bul his son's do.y (Bono.r), if not in his son him- not otherwise altered. But there is reason self (Ce.lovius). The fulfilment of that pro- to b…
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pliocene formations of alleged great antiquity, at the age of these deposits ; geologically of fossil human remains and flint implements we can only approximate the time by com- along with bones of the mammoth and other parison with existing operations ; wbile animals long since extinct (' Antiquity of palaiontologi…
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Adam in particular it mnst have come with much surprise to find that life, which had been forfeited by sin, :prolonged to well-nigh a millennium of years ; atid this impres- sion, though perhaps 1t might become less as patriarch succeeded patriarch, wonl<I not, we think, entirely disappear. And eo let ns hope they c…
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III. PROGENITORS OF THE PROMISED BEED. This was the chief distinction of those i;aintly men, and tho r<'al reason why their names and ages have been eo carefully preserred to the Church of God. They were all links in the chnin leading on to the woman'1, seed. So to speak, they were the ten first heralds sent out to …
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ham's, Nor LI life without fault, Elijah was " of like passions as we are;" and David ; and St. John declares, 1 John i. 8-10. 1. It is a life of faith, i. e. a life in which the word of God is a real power. Mark in Heh. xi. how faith worked in different circumstances. To walk with God is to trust him as a child trusts…
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danger to the pious Set hill's rose: " who monstrous. (2) It is Scripturnl, e.nd not ~ccame snnres to the rnce of Seth" (\Vords- mythi.ca.l (cf, Numbers xxv. ; Judges iii. ; worth). That t.he sons of God. Bene-ha 1 Kings xi., xvi. ; Rev. ii., for sins of a Elohi,n. 1. Not young men of the upper similar description).…
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