Hutchinson gazette., 1901-07-04
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON |, JULY 7--GENEslS Il
2a-97-oOp THE CREATOR.
I'm the Beginning Ood Created tho
Heaven and the Earth'--story OF tho
CrsAtion--CIeal1r and Creature --Au-
thor Of GenesIl Unknown,

NNo lpE tllt Nulu VI hhNt wv bhhlp VI
knowledge, of religion. ana morality,
Vs. 1926, In his Literary Study Of the
Bible, Professor Moulton arrnnges the
structure Of this passage In the following
way, auGgcatlng logical symmetrlra,
while In .rm II IL only nawatlng
And God sid
And God said Creationof Llghts)
(CreatIon OF LlghtO And there was eyen-
And there was even ing ana there was
ing aud there was morning, fourth
morning, one day day,
And God said And God snld--
Creation OF the Creation Of Life In
Firmament, divid- the Firmament,
ing waters from and In tho wat
waters) crs)
And there was even And there was oven-
ing and there was Ing and there was
morning, second morning, Il hrlh
day. day
And God said And God said;
Creation OF Land) Creation OF Life ON
And God said Lnnd.)
Creation OF VGge- And God said. =
tation, climax OF ICreation OF Man,
inanlmate nHture.) climax Of animate
ANA there was even nature,)
Ing and there was And there was even
morning, third ing and there was
day. morning, a sixth
And God SAID day
Note the gradual progress In each col
umn, ana the correspondence between
tho members OF the two columns. This
may be urged as one argument IN un-
Outstanding the chapter to be not mar.
ration Of Incidents In their order Of sue
eession, but u logical classification Of tho
elements Of the universe. ~ Professor
Aioulton.
20. 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 creep
eth upon the earth,
n. So God created man in his own Inn
age, IN the image Of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
2S, And uod blessed them. and God said
unto them, Bo fruitful and multiply, and
roplenish the earth, and subduc IT, aud
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon tho
earth.
20. And God said, Behold 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 tree
yielding seed; 10 you It shall be for
meat,
90. And of 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, have given every
green herb for meat; and It was so
d., And God saw everything that he
had made, and behold, II was very good
And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
|. Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host OF them.
2. And on the seventh day God ended
his work which he had made; and hc
rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made.
8. And God blessed the seventh day. and
sanctihod It; because that In 1t he had
rested from all the work which God cree
ated and made.
The Book OF Genesis.-Tho author OF
Genesis as we have It now Is unknown.
1t is more than probable that Moses
wrote Il greater or lesser portion from
ancient documents, though II IL not so
stated In the book itself. The history In
Genesis closes at least century before
Moses. Professor sayve says that the
monuments show mot only that Moses
could have written the Pentateuch mot
including later revisions and the addi-
tion OF editorial notes), but that II would
have been something like a miracle if he
had not done so." The Date.--The docu-
ments or narratives incorporated into the
history were doubtless very ancient, "co-
eval, or nearly 80, with the events mar
rated" long before Moses. Whatever
Moses wrote embodying these documents
must have been written thirteen hundred
70 fifteen hundred years before Christ
Scholars who find two or three separate
narratives find them written, one not
later than 75O BIC, and another 725-G25 b.
c., but the whole not interviewer COM
pletely till later still, and completed
about $50 Il. C, In the time Of Ezra and
Nehemiah. In any case there must have
been recensions and almost retransla-
tions, so that they could keep pace with
the changes in language during more
than n thousand years, as has been done
with our English Bible Compare thu
editions OF Sponsors "Faerio Queenc'
ana SHAKESPEARE as nrst issued IN MS
duartos and as now printed and the
Lords prayer as now printed with that
issued in 1855 "Fader uro in heune,
haleeweido boeth thi neune, cumen thl
kuneriche, thi willie beoth don In heune
| and In erthc. The euerych daw bried git
| us thilk dave. And wOrzlf ure dettes IN
| vi vorzifen ure dettoures And lene us
nouEht in temptation, but delyvor OF
uyei Amen" The language was He.
brew, which, like every living language,
grew and changed as time went on Tho
Literary structure.-If we throw aside
our artificial divisions into chapters, wa
will notice that the author has arranged
| the book In chapters Of his own. His
frst chapter, beginning at the beginning
needs no chapter title Q:l-2:3), "rhe gen
eratlons Of the heavens and OF the earth
IL the title OF his second chapter begin
ming with "a. 1.-THE book Of the genera
tlons of Adam" from to 6;S. 1.-THE
generations OF Noah," giving the history
| OF Noah's family till his death, from 6:'
to end Of o. There are twelve Of these
| chapters. The book naturally falls into
two divisions. The first division includes
the first eleven chapters, according tc
our chapter divisions. This may be called
the first book Of Genesis, the story OF thu
early world, consisting of seven OF his
chapters, and carries the history OF tht
world down to Abraham. The secont
hook of Genesis the beginning Of the
Jewish nations including the rest OF th'
book, and is divided into five chapters
1t begins with Abraham, the founder o.
the Jewish nation and continues through
the history OF the twelve patriarchs, tn
founders Of the twelve tribes OK Israel.
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| c.,-1.,. Frror in Trrnn alAtion.