The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1
Overview
This volume includes a verse by verse commentary on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, the text of the King James Version, Ellen G. White’s Comments, and 28 maps, charts and illustrations. It also includes the following general articles: The Language, Manuscripts, and Canon of the Old Testament; The Creationist Model of Origins; Genesis and Geology Archeology and the Recovery of Ancient History; The Historical Background of the Patriarchal Period; Daily Life in the Patriarchal Age; Weights, Measures, and Money Values in the Old Testament; The Names of God in the Old Testament; and The Chronology of Early Bible History.
Top Highlights
“God, who called to Adam, not as if ignorant of his hiding place, but to bring him to confession. Adam sought to hide the sin behind its consequences, his disobedience behind his sense of shame, by proposing to God that he had hidden himself through embarrassment at his nakedness. His consciousness of the effects of sin was keener than of the sin itself. Here we witness for the first time the confusion between sin and punishment, which is characteristic of man in his fallen state. The results of sin are sensed and detested more than the sin itself.” (Pages 231–232)
“That Ham is again called the father of Canaan seems to imply that both father and son had similar unholy inclinations that revealed themselves, not only in the incident described here, but later in the religious practices of a whole nation. Furthermore, it shows that the event took place some time after the Flood, when Canaan, the fourth son of Ham (ch. 10:6), was already born. The sin of Ham was not an unintentional transgression. He may have seen his father’s shameful condition accidentally, but instead of being filled with sorrow over his father’s folly, he rejoiced in what he saw and found delight in publishing it.” (Page 266)
“Cain had built the first city (ch. 4:17), in an attempt, perhaps, to avoid the nomadic life God had marked out for him. God’s original plan called for men to spread over the face of the earth and to cultivate the soil (see ch. 1:28). The building of cities represented opposition to this plan. The concentration of human beings has always encouraged laziness, immorality, and other vices. Cities have ever been hotbeds of crime, for in such an environment Satan finds less resistance to his attacks than in smaller communities where people live in close touch with nature.” (Page 284)
- Title: The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1
- Author: Francis D. Nichol
- Series: Seventh-day Adventist Commentary
- Publisher: Review & Herald
- Print Publication Date: 1978
- Logos Release Date: 2002
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Exodus › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Leviticus › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Numbers › Commentaries; Bible. O.T. Deuteronomy › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:900.2.2098
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
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