A Scriptural View of Woman's Rights and Duties |
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Author:
| Wilson, Elizabeth |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-66644-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $31.32 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: great room for ridicule, were it not excluded by the grave character of the question. Eve being represented as weak and imbecile, compared with Adam's exuberant intellect, she being committed to his government and care, by the Creator. As a man rules over, yet carefully defends and tenderly takes care of...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: great room for ridicule, were it not excluded by the grave character of the question. Eve being represented as weak and imbecile, compared with Adam's exuberant intellect, she being committed to his government and care, by the Creator. As a man rules over, yet carefully defends and tenderly takes care of his own body. Adam neglects her instruction and care; weak and comparatively ignorant, she is suffered to wander alone, encountered by the wily adversary, she is deceived by his subtlety. Adam, instead of exercising his superior abilities by firmly withstanding the temptation on her offering the fruit, participates in the transgression, after witnessing the baneful effects it produced on her. As far as Adam and Eve were respectively concerned, he is rewarded and she is most ignominiously punished. He has the privilege conferred on him to be set officially over her, to inflict the divine penalty; and on parity of reasoning, Satan is also a commissioned officer, to inflict the penalties of the broken covenant on the woman: ?thus the wrath of God has called into action both earth and hell to be his avengers?ministers of his wrath on poor imbecile woman. But our opinion is, that whilst man and Satan are volunteers in this magnanimous business, God in his providence overrules it, as a correction to both man and woman. That God ever appointed either man or Satan to any such official dignity, we utterly deny. This is man's commission: As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise, Luke vi. 31. We do not envy the head or the heart of the man who may suppose it would have added any thing to Adam's happiness, to have been appointed an avenger to chastise Eve for her sins. She must have viewed him as an executioner of God's wrath, and not as a nourisher. Even sup..