Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-26

no way, adds 81 Augustine, o preserving the sense
OF the three first chapters Of Genesis without having
rJeoux TO GHgry" So that, If | err in my mode of
interpreting the Bible, err not only with Origen and
ST. Augustine, but with Clemens Of Alexindra, Mai
monides and St Jerom', who were OF similar conVic'
ton Indeed sir f.ureen centuries after the death Of
Noses aud when Greek literature was in is decline this
aegoricil form OF teaching was sill fashionable in ls-
rae Even our Saviour constantly taught by parallels
Let US be particular. You assume that the Hebrew,
Adam, with its mssoretic point means an individual
man, and that it was used by Moses to express that dea
do not think So Ask any Hebrew scholar what Adam
signifies, and the answer will be, that in the Hebrew
language when bsrsly interpreted it means the Red
Man" the "Florid Mar, or the great Lanei Las it.
the Blusher"-rtpreSenting variety OF the humin
race "Adam," says the Episcopal Commentator in
one OF xter's Bibles probably so called either
from the red earth of which he formed or from
the blush or ssh tint Of the human counenauce the
nans intended 10 dsIiSnate the humdH spscieI Tait
note, sir, is in explanation of the text: "Ind God
sid LIT US make Man in image, after our Likeness
and let them (uo. him, you will perceive have domin
ion" S,. HIRE /, orthodox commentator, in perfect
haImoby with my Biblical exeges; and pray you when
you shut the doors OF mercy against me, not to forget
that he il equally heretical Ia fact being the victims
Of opinion We ought to b. united hereafter especially
as our convictions are derived from the doctrines Of
Moses. "Male and female" Gays be- "crelted he than
(mankind); and blessed hm and called their
ADaA"-id est, the species As to tho Woman, AIS
hGH)-;sntamOnut to the Coptic hs and hierogyphcil
Ii-you mus. not overlook tia; the term is the
symbol Of an idea fully Interpreted by Mos in tbs
text, where he denomiuat her "the mother Of all v-
ne;" and the appoa;iTe, Eve (ChaU1h siguying "Lfe
medium y 50 called from her maternal functions Ia.
deed sir the characteristics OF the writings Of Moses
are great eensrGLits rather than little speeaiiss;
ard it is pity tha. theologan old and cxpereuc
ed you are, should so far permit his pFcud'ces to
warp his judgment, as to put restricted interpre'
Aion upon the language Of Noses thus placing the
eAtions of the Bbie and thcs Of Science, 10 antsgo
nism instead OF harmony.
The subject upon which we mora Immediately differ,
however, is, that deny, aud you assart-tbe unity CT
humanity. believe that all mankind have had a com
mon and divine origin because they into existence
through the Wisdom in harmony with the laws, and ty
the express will of the 0mnipoten. Creator OF the Ua
verse-prAisod for all eternity bo His goodness and per
fc.iol So far aoknoElsdge the doctrine of "unity"
Bat that all the races or varieties OF MN, the N
spring of 4 singis pIir emphatcsly deny. believe
tha. have clearly shown, in my book the scientific i'm
possibility OF this venerable but absurd notion aud !
shall here oif few scrpturA considerations in support
Of my theory, and in illustration of the general harmon
Of the Bible and Science.
Now, from the fourth chapter OF Genesis, we learn
that Adam had two sons-CIin and Abel They we're
the only children born unto him up to the birth Of Seth
Que huldred and thirty years after; "for God" sIid
Eve "h,th appointed another seed instead OF Abl
Q Ia slew the later; 80 that according TO your
notions there living in the wide world but three
rsols-Adam, Eve, aud their fratricids son. Ysh
when the Lord said unto the murderer snow art thou
cured from the eArh," Oiin reped"I shall conc 10
pus that erery on, that fldcth ms shall sIly me-
Pay, sir il v.w Alan aud Eve t sole psTeut'
OF AL rsca Of whom did ths shed of the frs blood
sand in such terror? Nay but Why mark so. VI
him or, as the commeators ny, sign or token Civ
ca to bm--"lss. any finding lin should kill hm -
Surely ti- hs WAS DO. afraid Of Adam Eve, aud he
NUT have had contemporaries TO whom be knew fra.
ricide WAS hateful. However, he wen. 'aud dse in tie
land of Noe Mad literally the exile of lhe vasaboa
and th5re ho knew h.s wife" Who, SIC, w,s /.
LADY, Was she fish, fowl baas. or human Or was s7c
specifically created for him the convenen. companion
of his Punishment? She could not have been his sis
otherwise Moses mus, be regarded o. partial and in
correc bocrsphos for hc is particular in telling us tLai
Adah and Zllah the wives Of Lam ch. Aud WHO
aud what allow me 10 ask, were these ladies' A. any
rate, sir Gaia "bulded a city" and called it after his
first born Enoch. For whom this city built Sure
" one tenement would have been sufficient for three to
lodge in Did not Cain, VIXEN baDished, wend his way
to an already Inhabited country These questiens Bs
op, you must answer with positive accuracy, ere your
charge that my book is "unscrptnraI" can staud An
sTer them clndidy, like theOlogin and scholar, O
otherwise, have Christian msgnanmity-admt that yo,
sere hssly and ;ta at The least the theory Of CaT
and Contrast is plausible.
certain school OF theoogians, sir-gnorant and ia
naca rather than wise or learned admi-once insis;
ed and do yet insist, that the 'mark" which God pu
upon Cain was that which characterizes the negr
to the present day. But this silly conception s fu
" refued by the internal evjieIc. Of the Bible. w
find that Of Gains grand children, a portion Wer
nouads, 'suoh dwell in tents and have cattle /;
others Of them were musicians; the third "srtihcer
in iron aud brass;" and all Of these were the i'm
MEDIATE offspring of the second mirdsrsr-he who
in lbe sgony OF contrition, exclaimed have s'ain
man to my wounding, and young man IN my hurt =
1t is not little singular SIR that while Moses is parueu
sr ia stating that Gain slew his trohr, he scompste
silent ,s 10 the origin and of the victim Of Lamech
from which infer that the murdered man was Htf
the Adamts stock, but belonged to an aboriginal tro
of "the land Of Nod" Bl. where, in oil negro land
pha we look or the descendants OF Jabal Jubal, al
FubaLCan? Where, repeat, in those regions, ar
we to find he pastoral of the former-the muse'
gepu.es OF the sccond-or the artisans OF the latter =
Amongst scyths and Arabs, indeed, we nigh. lock 10
The frat: Phrygians might answer for the second EgyT
srs PtGaicans, and Greeks for the third but through
Gu. all of wreched and degraded Aica with lis housees
omelesa artless, and miserable beings We would Vsni
.,rrh f1 the sirhtest trace Of anY Of these Adami