Studies In Genesis

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“In the first place,’ he received Isaac from the dead, in a figure.’ In the signal and seasonable deliverance of his son he had a vivid representation of the resurrection which he had believed that God was able to effect. To all intents and purposes, Isaac had been dead, and was now alive from the dead. It was an emphatic rehearsal of the real and literal resurrection; nor could the patriarch, having been thus brought to feel the power of the world to come, ever afterwards lose the vivid sight and sense he had got of its eternal realities.” (Genesis 22:1)

“There was a covenant; and there were the sacraments of a covenant—the signs and seals of it” (Genesis 2:4)

“There is the widest possible difference between our believing certain truths as the result of reasoning or discovery, and our believing them on the direct assertion of a credible witness whom we see and hear—especially if the witness be the very individual to whom the truths relate, and indeed himself their author.” (Genesis 1:1)

“And it may be with reference to his immediate personal agency, as connected with all revelation, that this came to be the standing mode of announcing a prophetic oracle—‘the Word of the Lord came.’” (Genesis 15:1)

“Shame, therefore, fear, and falsehood, are the bitter fruits of sin. Guilt is felt; death is dreaded; guile is practised.” (Genesis 3:6)