The herald., 1895-03-31

portion of the Bible until the entire work
is completed. The committee has. how
ever, prepared an informal Interpretation
or pharaphrasing of certain important
passages with comment. These official
interpretations the New York World pre-
sents exactly as the revisionists have pre-
pared them.
The World prints only those passages
wherein woman is referred to and which
bear upon the relative positions of man
and woman. Verses 26, ~ and 2S of the
first chapter of Genesis are considered OF
vital importance because they tell of the
creation of Adam and Eve.
The following extracts from the Bible
and the accompanying interpretations are
given in the order in which important
mention of woman is found in the first
five books of the Old Testament:
GENESIS !.
26. And God said Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness; 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,
and 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 re-
plenish the earth and subdue it; and have
dominion over the fish OF the sea. and over
the fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moyeth upon the earth.
INTERPRETATIONS
Here is the sacred historians first ac-
count of the advent of woman: a stimuli
taneous creation of man and woman,
made in the image of God. 1t is evident
from the language that there was CONSUL
tation in the Godhead, and that the mas
cuine and feminine elements We're equal
ly represented, the heavenly mother as
well as the heavenly father, as there
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without these two elements, in the Crea-
tor in man, in the whole mineral, Vege-
table and animal world. Like the cen
trpetal and centrifugal forces, the posi-
tive and negative magnetism, the mascu-
line and feminine elements must have
existed in the eternal past.
This idea of the creation of woman is in
harmony with science and common sense
Equal in power and glory with the man,
with dominion over every living thing,
but not one word said Of man having
dominion over woman. Here is the first
title deed to this green earth, given alik
TO the sons and daughters OF the Creator.
Scott, in his commentaries, says this
consultation of the gods is the foundation
OF the Trinity. But instead OF three male
personages, a mother, father and son
would seem more rational. The first step
in the elevation of woman to her true
position in the scale of being is the recog-
milton by the rising generation of a heav-
cnV mother To whom their prayers
should be addressed, as well as to the
Heavenly Father.
GENESIS II.
lG. And the Lord cod commanded the man,
saying. OF every tree Of the garden thou mayest
freely eat:
II But of the tree OF the knowledge of good
md evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
81 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to Iall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took
one OF his ribs and closed up the flesh instead
thereof;
% And the rib. which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he woman, and
brought her unto the man.
%. Aud AdsT said THUS is now bone OF my