THE FIRST BOOK OF
MOSES, CALLED
GENESIS
"GENESIS
is the book of beginnings. It records not only the beginning
of the heavens and the earth, and of plant, animal, and
human life, but also of all human institutions and
relationships. Typically, it speaks of the new birth, the
new crea- tion, where all was chaos and
ruin.
With
Genesis begins also that progressive self-revelation of God
which culminates in Christ. The three primary names of
Deity, Elohim, Jehovah, and Ado!1ai, and the five most
important of the compound names, occur in Genesis; and that
in an ordered progression which could not be changed without
confusion.
The
problem of sin as affecting man's condition in the earth,
and his relation to God, and the divine solution of that
problem are here in essence. Of the eight great covenants
which condition human life and the divine redemption, four,
the Edenic, Adamic, Noahic, and Abrahamic Covenants, are in
this book; and these are the fun- damental covenants to
which the other four, the Mosaic, Palestinian, Davidic, and
New Covenants, are related chiefly as adding detail or
development.
Genesis
enters into the very structure of the New Testament, in
which it is quoted above sixty times .in seventeen books. In
a profound sense, therefore, the roots of all subsequent
revelation are planted deep in Genesis, and whoever would
truly comprehend that revelation must begin here. .
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THE
FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED
GENESIS
"IN
THE BEGINNING GOD created the heaven and the
earth.
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And
the earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the
waters.
And
God said, Let there be light: and there was
light.
And
God saw the light, that it was good and God
divided the light from the
darkness.
And
God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were
the first day.
And
God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the
waters.
And
God made the firmament, and divided the waters
which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the fir-mament: and
it was so.
And
God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second
day.
And
God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the. dry
land appear: and it was
so.
And
God called the dry land Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was
good.
And
God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind, whose seed is in itself,
upon the earth: and it was so.
And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that it was
good.
And
the evening and the morn-ng were the third
day.
And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for sea-sons, and for
days, and years:
And
let them be for lights in n. the firmament of the
heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was
so.
And
God made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: he made the stars
also.
And
God set them in the fir-mament of the heaven to
give light upon the
earth,
And
to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and
God
saw
that it was good.
And
the evening and the morn-ing were the fourth
day.
And
God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that may fly above the earth in the open
firmament of heaven.
And
God created great whales, and every living creature
that mov-eth, which the Waters. brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl
after his kind:and God saw that it was
good.
And
God blessed them; saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the
earth.
And
the evening and the morn-ng were the fifth
day.
And
God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping
thing, .and beast of the earth after his kind: and
it was so.
And
God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind,and every thing that
creep-eth upon the earth after his kind: and God
saw that it was
good.
And
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
like-ness: and let them have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
So
God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he
them.
And
God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish :the earth,
and subdue it: and have do- minion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the
earth.
And
God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be
fore meat.
And
to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of
the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the
earth, wherein there
is
life,
I have given every green herb for meat: and
It was so.
And
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day.
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THUS
the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them.
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And
on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had
rested from all his work which God created and
made.
These
are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that the L0RD
God made the earth and the
heavens,
And
every plant of the field be-fore it was in the
earth, and every-herb of the field before it grew:
for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground.
But
there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the
ground.
And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground,and I breathed into his nostrils the breath'
of life; and man became a living
soul.
And
the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had
formed.
And
out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good, for
food; the tree of life also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
And
a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and
from thence it was parted, and became into four
heads.
The
name of the first is Pison: that is
it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,
where there is
gold;
And
the gold of that land is good: there is
bdellium and the onyx
stone.
And
the name of the second river is Gihon: the
same is it that compasseth the whole land of
Ethi-opia.
And
the name of the third river is Hiddekel:
that is it which goeth toward the east of
Assyria. And- the fourth river is
Euphrates.
And
the LORD God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it.
And
the LORD God com-manded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely
eat:
But
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou
eat-est thou shalt surely
die,
And
the LORD God said; It is not good that the
man should be alone; I will make him an help meet
for him.
And
out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and
brought them unto Adam to see what he would
call them: and whatsoever Adam called every
li.v-ing creature, that was the name
thereof.
And
Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of
the air, and to every beast of the field; but for
Adam there was not found an help meet for
him.
And
the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,
and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh in-stead
thereof;
And
the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,
made he a wqman, and brought her unto the
man.
And
Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man.
Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
And
they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
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the serpent was more sub-til than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden?
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And
the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the
garden:
But
of the fruit of the tree which is in the
midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye
die.
And
the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not
surely die:
For
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
And
when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one
wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did
eat.
And
the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew
that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
together, and made them- selves
aprons.
And
they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD
God amongst the trees of the
garden.
And
the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him,
Where art thou?
And
he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I
was afraid, be-cause I was naked; and I hid
my-self.
And
he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldest not
eat?
And
the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to
be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did
eat.
And
the LORD God said unto the woman, What is
this that thou hast done? And the Woman
said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did
eat.
And
the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, thou art cursed above all
cat-tle, and above every beast of the field; upon
thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all
the days of thy life:
And
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy
head, and thou shalt bruise chis
heel.
Unto
the woman he said, I will-greatly multiply thy
sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy de-sire shall
be to thy husband,
And
unto Adam he said, Be- cause thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt
not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
of thy life;
Thorns
also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and
thou shalt eat the herb of the
field;
In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till
thou return unto . the ground; for out of it wast
thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return.
And
Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was
the mother of all
living.
Unto
Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make
coats of skins, and clothed
them.
And
the LORD God said, Be-hold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life, and eat, and live for
ever:
Therefore
the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden
to till the ground from whence he was
taken.
So
he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of
the gar-den of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword
which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree
of life.
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The
above quotes are from
The
Holy Bible
Scofield References
GENESIS
Chapters 1 Two and Three
pages 3
to 10
The
following words from Chapter 3 verse 16, have as if by magic
spell, fell, out of line.
"...and
he shall rule over thee."
THE
MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Thomas
Mann 1924
The
Thunderbolt
SEVEN
years Hans Castorp remained amongst those up here. Par-
tisans of the decimal system might prefer a round number,
though seven is a good handy figure in its way, picturesque,
with a savour of the mythical; one might even say that it is
more filling to the spirit than a dull academic half-dozen.
Our hero had sat at all seven of the tables in the
dining-room, at each about a year, the last being the bad "
Russian table, and his company there two Ar- menians, two
Finns, a Bokharian, and a Kurd. He sat at the "bad" Russian
table, wearing a recent little blond beard, vaguish in cut,
which we are disposed to regard as a sign of philosophic
indiffer-ence to his own outer man. Yes, we will even go
further, and relate his carelessness of his person to the
carelessness of the rest of the world regarding him. The
authorities had ceased to devise him distractions. There was
the morning inquiry, as to whether he had slept well, itself
purely rhetorical and summary; and that aside, the Hofrat
did not address him with any particularity; while Adriatica
von M ylendonk - she had, at the time of which we write, a
stye in a perfect state of maturity - did so seldom, in fact
" scarcely ever. They let him be. He was like the scholar in
the " peculiarly happy state of never being "asked" any
more; of never having a task, of being left to sit, since
the fact of his being left behind is established, and no one
troubles about him further - an orgiastic kind of freedom,
but we ask ourselves whether, in-deed, freedom ever is or
can be of any other kind. At all events, here was one on
whom the authorities 'no longer needed to keep ".an eye,
being assured that no wild or defiant resolves were
ripen-ing in his breast. He was " settled," established.
Long ago he had ceased to know where else he should go, long
ago he had ceased to be capable of a resolve to return to
the flat-land. Did not the very fact that he was sitting at
the "bad " Russian table wimess a certain abandon? No
slightest adverse comment upon the said table being intended
by the remark! Among all tfte seven, no single one could be
said to possess definite tangible advantages or
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disadvantages.
We make bold to say that here was a democracy of tables, all
honourable alike. The same tremendous meals were served here
as at the others; Rhadamanthus himself occasionally folded
his huge hands before the doctor's place at the head; and
the nations who ate there were respectable members of the
human race, even though they boasted no Latin, and were not
exag-geratedly dainty at their
feeding.
Time
- yet not the time told by the station clock, moving with a
jerk five minutes at once, but rather the time of a tiny
timepiece, the hand of which one cannot see move, or the
time the grass keeps when it grows, so unobservably one
would say it does not grow at all, until some morning the
fact is undeni-able - time, a line composed of a succession
of dimensionless points (and now we are sure the unhappy
deceased Naphta would Interrupt us to ask how dimensionless
points, no matter how many of them, can constitute a line),
time, we say, had gone on, in its furtive, unobservable,
competent way, bringing about changes. For example, the boy
Teddy was discovered, one day- not one single day, of
course, but only rather indefinitely from which day - to be
a boy no longer. No more might ladies take him on their
laps, when, on occasion, he left his bed, changed his
pyjamas for his knickerbockers, and came downstairs. Im-
perceptibly that leaf had turned. Now, on such occasions, he
took them- on his instead, and both sides were as well, or
even better pleased. He was become a youth; scarcely could
we say he had bloomed into a youth; but he had shot up. Hans
Castorp had not noticed it happening, and then, suddenly, he
did. The shooting-up, however, did not suit the lad Teddy;
the temporal became him not. In his twenty-first year he
departed this life; dying of the disease for which he had
proved receptive; and they cleansed and fumigated after him.
The fact makes little claim upon our emotions, the change
being so slight between his one state and his
next.
But
there were other deaths, and more important; deaths down in
the flat-land, which touched, or would once have touched,
our hero more nearly. We are thinking of the recent decease
of old Consul Tienappel, Hans's great-uncle and
foster-father, of faded memory. He had carefully avoided
unfavourable conditions of atmospheric pressure, and left it
to Uncle James to stultify him- self; yet an apoplexy
carried him off after all; and a telegram, couched in brief
but feeling terms - feeling more for the departed than for
the recipient of the wire - was one day brought toHans
Castorp where he lay in his excellent chair. He acquired
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some
black-bordered note-paper, and wrote to his uncle-cousins:
he, the doubly, now, so to say, triply orphaned, expressed
him- self as being the more distressed over the sad news,
for that cir- cumstances forbade him interrupting his
present sojourn even to pay his great-uncle the last
respects.
To
speak of sorrow would be disingenuous. Yet in these days
Hans Castorp's eyes did wear an expression more musing than
common. This death, which could at no time have moved him
greatly, and after the lapse of years could scarcely move
him at all, meant the sundering of yet another bond with the
life be-low; gave to what he rightly called his freedom the
final seal. In the time of which we speak, all contact
between him and the flat-land had ceased. He sent no letters
thither, and received none thence. He no longer ordered
Maria Mancini, having found a brand up here to his liking,
to which he was now as faithful as once to his old-time
charmer: a brand that must have carried even a polar
explorer through the sorest and severest trials; armed with
which, and no other solace, Hans Castorp could lie and bear
it out indefinitely, as one does at the sea-shore. It was an
especially well cured brand, with the best leaf wrapper,
named "Light
of Asia
"; rather more compact than Maria, mouse-grey in colour with
a blue band, very tractable and mild, and evenly consuming
to a snow-white ash, that held its shape and still showed
traces of the veining on the wrapper; so evenly and
regularly that it might have served the smoker for an
hour-glass, and did so, at need, for he no longer carried a
timepiece. His watch had fallen from his night-table; it did
not go, and he had neglected to have it regulated, perhaps
on the same grounds as had made him long since give up using
a calendar, whether to keep track of the day, or to look out
an approaching feast: the grounds, namely, of his "freedom."
Thus be did honour to his abiding-everlasting, his walk by
the ocean of time, the hermetic enchantment to which he had
proved so extraordinarily susceptible that it had become the
fundamental adventure of his life, in which all the
alchemisti-cal processes of his simple substance had found
full play. Thus he lay; and thus, in high summer, the year
was once more rounding out, the seventh year, though he knew
it not, of his sojourn up here."
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