Bible History of the Old Testament

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: serpent; the devil, in causing Him this suffering, bruising, as it were, His heel. 6. Adam and Eve provided with Clothing.?To hide the shame of the guilty pair, God now made them coats of skins, which must have been from animals slain in sacrifice, as animal food was not yet permitted. Thus, immediately...
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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: serpent; the devil, in causing Him this suffering, bruising, as it were, His heel. 6. Adam and Eve provided with Clothing.?To hide the shame of the guilty pair, God now made them coats of skins, which must have been from animals slain in sacrifice, as animal food was not yet permitted. Thus, immediately after the Fall began the ritual of the atonement, the shadowing forth of the means to be taken to effect the recovery. Lest in their guilty state, Adam and Eve should eat of the Tree of Life, and attain an immortality of misery, they were driven out of the Garden of Eden, the entrance of which was guarded with cherubims, and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER I. 1. State the work done on each of the six days of creation. 2. What was at this period given to the human race for food I 3. What two institutions affecting man's civil and religious life, were ordained before the Fall ? 4. What reason is there for supposing that the custom of sacrifice had its origin in Eden t CHAPTER II THE HISTORY OF ADAM'S DESCENDANTS?THE WICKEDNESS OF THE HUMAN RACE?THE FLOOD. 1. Cain and Abel: The First Murder.?Cain and Abel were the two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain was employed in cultivating the ground; Abel was a keeper of sheep. Each of them brought offerings to God: Cain of the fruits of the ground, Abel of the firstlings of his flock. While God accepted Abel's offering, for some -eason which is not stated, He rejected the offering ofCain, who became so angry that shortly afterwards, in a fit of jealousy, he murdered his brother. Thus early do we see the sad fruits of the Fall; and the wickedness of men went on increasing until the earth was filled with similar acts of violence. For this crime, Cain was com..