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 the name thereof.." Nothing- could better represent the organisation of the earthly life upon the basis of man•~ supremacy. But there is no helpmeet for man (" as before hirn," the rdlection of himself) in all tho lower creation. I, HUMAN SOCIETY MUST SPUING OUT OF SOMETHING lllGHER TH.AN ANDIAL LIFE AND MAN'S MERE EARTHLY POSITION. The deep sleep, the Divine manipulation of man·~ fleshly frame, the formation of the new creature, not out of the ground, but out of man, the exclamation of Adam, This is another self, my bone and my flesh, therefore she shall be called woman, because so closely akin to man-all this, whatever physical interpretation we give to it, represents the fact that companionship, family life, man's intercourse with his fellow, all the relations which spring from the fleshly unity oE the race, arc of the most sacred character. As they are/rom God, and specially ot' God's a7Jpointment, so they should be/or God. II. There, in home life, torn off, as it were, from the larger sphere, that it may ht> TIIE NRW DEGINNING OF THE NEW WOnI,D TO US, should be the special recognition of God, the family altar, the house of man a house of God. Ill. The Divine beginning of human life is the foundation on which we buil,1 np society. •rnE IlELATIONS OF THE SEXES WILL BE PUilEST AND NO!lLEST the more tLe henrt of mnn unfolds itself in the clement of the heavenly loYc.-R.
EXPOSITION. Eden lifo was of comparatively short ,ha·a• CHAPTER III. tion. The present chapter rclutcs the tmgi~ Vcrs, 1-7.-How long the pnrnJisiacnl inciclent which brought it to R termination. stote of innoc~nce nnd felicity continuoJ the In to the question of the origin of moral evil historian cloos not declnro, probably ns not in tho universe it does not enter. The meti.- falling within tho scopo of his irnmeuil\te physicnl problem of how the first thought of design. Ps. xlix. 12 has beon thougiit, though sin coulJ 1irise in innocent beings it does not without sufficient renson, t,, hint that man's attempt to rcsolvo. It seeks to c:q,bin tl,a 56 'l'HE BOOK OF GENESIS. [cH, II. 1-'f.