All About the Bible by Sidney Collett

Author:Sidney Collett
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Bible Reference
ISBN: 9781557480828
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated
Published: 1989-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

But as in some other parts, the true beauty of God’s plan in His Book is hidden from view in our translation; here it is particularly so owing to the arrangement of chapters, etc. In our English Bible Genesis has fifty chapters, while the construction of the book demands that there should be only eleven chapters.

They are, however, easily discerned by any English reader as they all, after the first chapter, begin in the same way—viz. “These are the generations of.” Moreover, they reveal a line of descendants from Adam which, after many generations, culminated in the Messiah.

The following table will show these eleven natural chapters and their leading characters: (Some of these points were first culled from a sermon by the Rev. John Urquhart.)

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