| Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - Methodist women - 1838 - 438 pages
...is called the Seed or offspring of the woman. It was on the promulgation of the first promise, that Adam called his wife Eve, " because she was the mother of all living." He thus at the same time expressed his faith in the promise of God, and his gratitude for the great... | |
| Great Britain - 1843 - 600 pages
...promise some definite expectations. They clearly expected to live .so long as to have descendants ; for Adam called his wife Eve, " because she was the mother of all living ;" or, as some interpret it, in a manner which indicates a more full understanding of the promise,... | |
| Louis Bonnet - 1839 - 336 pages
...rival those of Zion ? Yes, instead of those few words which follow the sentence of condemnation, " Adam called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living," we should have heard the sinner, spared by the hand of destruction, pouring forth his heart, broken... | |
| Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...called the " Seed," or offspring of the woman. It was on the promulgation of the first promise that Adam called his wife Eve, "because she was the mother of all living." He thus, at the same time, expressed his faith in the promise of God, and his gratitude for the great... | |
| 1857 - 584 pages
...— and then proceeds, as if he had made it fit into his views, to tell us that Genesis iii. 20 — " Adam called his wife Eve ; because she was the mother of all living" — means only " that Eve was the mother of many children."— (P. 13.) He has reached this reading,... | |
| John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...heaven and earth, and rested the seventh of these days." In Genesis iii. 20, we are informed that " Adam called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living." Not so, say our theorist : it should be " because she was the mother of many children." " God made... | |
| Anna Boyle Boone - Crime - 1871 - 208 pages
...thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; " thus plainly demonstrating to us, that MAN v^aS tneant to rule. Bear in mind that God was angry because Adam...intended to labor as the provider for her whom he choses as a helpmeet, and those "whom, through God's wise ordinance, he helps to propagate. Woman has... | |
| Edmund Mortlock - 1876 - 422 pages
...removed them from Kden, probably they had multiplied. In the preceding verse, also, it is said that Adam called his wife Eve, ' because she was the mother of all living.' 1 Not only was the serpent thus cursed for his involuntary injury to man, but in like manner under... | |
| Herbert Junius Hardwicke - Agnosticism - 1887 - 334 pages
...being brought under the divine anathema. No less apparent is the absurdity of the writer stating that Adam called his wife Eve "because she was the mother of all living," when there were then no other human beings in existence ; and declaring that god made coats and breeches... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1899 - 780 pages
...stamped the noble seal and mission of Motherhood. She is made for Motherhood. The Bible teaches this. "Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living." To protect her in this her essential mission, to ennoble it and sanctify it and make it honorable in... | |
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