![]() ![]() Then heaven, the expanse, was with a separating power and effect (6-8) dry land appears on the third day, the earth apart from the sea, with herbage and fruit to be produced (9-12) the sun is appointed (not now made but for the first time disclosed to the Adamic earth, having been hidden not merely during convulsive changes, but by the vast vapours and clouds that must in the previous glacial, marshy, or heated periods have existed). At length came the days, in the first of which "light was" (not said to be then created) fighting with the darkness - never blending, over hostile - and divided from it (3). In Genesis then we see first the order of heaven and the earth (1) before the horror of darkness and chaos, over which wide desolation the billowing Spirit broods (2). In each case the soul is guided back to survey "in the beginning" God triune, sole, absolute, whose transcendent power and capacious wisdom was pleased to originate and develop all things. 1, Genesis giving simply the shadow, and John the substance. Thus interpreting the first chapter of Genesis by the first chapter of John, a correspondency will be seen, which reveals the operation of the same Mind in each case, and which suggests that the great spiritual truth of John 1 was present in that august Mind when it arranged the material operations of Gen. ![]() But we find that the reality is the spiritual the material things serve as shadows, This is the formula: seen - temporal unseen - eternal (2 Cor. In this way the new dispensation interprets the old. The mightiest woes of the material realm are but as "Kriegspiel" to the gigantic conflicts of the spiritual and its brightest glories are as the scintillating stars, presently to be flooded out by the majesty of the full-orbed day when the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The Old Testament is one larger and divine Kindergarten, where, though all is historically true, the varied and dramatic figures of kings, shepherds, priests, worshippers, sacrifices, hosts, wanderers, pomps, miseries, triumphs, defeats, mercies, judgments, sufferings and glories are symbols and types of spiritual events (1 Cor. God had used symbol-teaching to "children of a larger growth" for thousands of years before. ![]() It was not Herr Froebel who first used the Kindergarten system, Germany adapts rather than invents. This last characteristic may be regarded rather as an effect than as a purpose. These three considerations, attractive, elucidative and mnemonic, I consider to be among the main purposes of the use of scripture figures but obviously there is the further important consideration, that their use adds to language much picturesque beauty. The very abundant use which is made of symbolical language and actions in the sacred records is evidently for the purposes, (1) of compelling attention, for attention is more easily attracted to types and physical actions than to abstract statements: (2) of explanations, for scriptural subjects are so much above the ordinary power of human minds as to be only, or best, explained by figures and (3) for rivetting to the memory, because an illustration is like a nail to hold a subject in the mind which otherwise would soon slip out. Counterfeits.Ĩ4 Historical Abridgment of Two Thousand Years.ĩ3 The Feasts of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles.ġ884 12. The Ark: The Mercy Seat.Ħ8 The Table: The Candlestick: The Tongs.Ħ9 Tabernacle Boards: Bars: Sockets: Curtain.ħ5 Consecration of Aaron. The Flesh-Pots.Ħ2 The Omer of Manna: The Water: The Amalekites.Ħ3 The General Assembly at the Mount of God.Ħ5 The Slave's Ear Bored: The Thirty Shekels.Ħ6 Israel as Illustrating the Principles of Divine Service.Ħ7 The Sanctuary. The Hyssop.ĥ8 The Red Sea: Salvation: Miriam's Choir.Ħ0 Palms and Well-Springs. Competition: Esau: Jacob.ģ2 The Three Flocks. Gold: Wrought Gold: Needlework.Ģ7 Election of Jacob. The Sacred Names.Ģ1 Vicarious Suffering and the Result. Lamp: Furnace.ġ8 Well-Strifes: Well-Stopping: Sign of the Covenant: Sojourning: Lot's Wife.ġ9 Isaac: Character, Death and Resurrection.Ģ0 Isaac: The Question. Bushel: Bed: Candlestick.ġ4 Melchisedek: Bread: Wine: Cup etc. Noah's Prophecy.ġ0 Line of Ham: Canaanites: Nimrod: Babel: Babylon.ġ1 Abram and Zion 5 Nimrod and Babylon: Faith.ġ2 Abram Faith Hope Love The Journey: The River.ġ3 Abram: Terah: Lot. Olive Leaf and Tree.ĩ The Altar Burnt-Offering Miracles Rainbow. STEM Publishing : Magazines : The Bible Treasury : Volume 15 : Scripture Imagery Scripture Imagery.Ĥ The Serpent. ![]()
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