CHAPTER XV
GENESIS
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the
name of God Almighty; but by My name Jehovah was I not known to
them. — Exodus.
All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. — John.
SCIENTIFIC Interpretation of the Scriptures
properly starts with the beginning of the Old Testament,
Spiritual interpretation
chiefly because the spiritual import of
the Word, in its earliest articulations, often
seems so smothered by the immediate context as to
require explication; whereas the New Testament narratives
are clearer and come nearer the heart. Jesus
illumines them, showing the poverty of mortal existence,
but richly recompensing human want and woe with
spiritual gain. The Incarnation of Truth, that,
amplification of wonder and glory which angels could only
whisper and which God illustrated by light and
harmony, is consonant with ever-present Love. So-called
mystery and miracle, which subserve the end of natural
good, are explained by that Love for whose rest the
weary ones sigh when needing something more native
to their immortal cravings than the history of perpetual
evil.
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