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| Chapter XIX.—Man is Placed in Paradise.
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Chapter XIX.—Man is Placed in Paradise.
God having thus completed the heavens, and
the earth, and the sea, and all that are in them, on the sixth day,
rested on the seventh day from all His works which He made. Then holy
Scripture gives a summary in these words: “This is the book of
the generation of the heavens and the earth, when they were created,
in the day that the Lord
made the heavens and the earth, and every green thing of the field,
before it was made, and every herb of the field before it grew. For God
had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to
till the ground.”588
By this He signifies to us, that the whole
earth was at that time watered by a divine fountain, and had no need
that man should till it; but the earth produced all things spontaneously
by the command of God, that man might not be wearied by tilling it. But
that the creation of man might be made plain, so that there should not
seem to be an insoluble problem existing among men, since God had said,
“Let Us make man;” and since His creation was not yet plainly
related, Scripture teaches us, saying: “And a fountain went up
out of the earth, and watered the face of the whole earth; and God made
man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of
life, and man became a living soul.”589
| 589 Gen. ii. 7. [The Hebrew must not be overlooked:
“the breath of lives,” spiraculum vitarum;
on which see Bartholinus, in Delitzsch, System of Bib. Psychol.,
p. 27. Also, Luther’s Trichotomy, ibid., p. 460. With another
work of similar character I am only slightly acquainted, but, recall with
great satisfaction a partial examination of it when it first appeared. I
refer to The Tripartite Nature of Man, by the Rev J. B. Heard,
M.A. 3d ed. Edinburgh, 1871, T. & T. Clark.] | Whence also
by most persons the soul is called immortal.590
| 590 [But compare Tatian (cap. xiii. p. 70), and the
note of the Parisian editors in margin (p. 152), where they begin by
distinctions to make him orthodox, but at last accuse him of
downright heresy. Ed. Paris, 1615.] | And after the
formation of man, God chose out for him a region among the places of
the East, excellent for light, brilliant with a very bright atmosphere,
[abundant] in the finest plants; and in this He placed man.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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