Word: eden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Idyl of Eden Cove, A. D. Sheffield...
...first vesper services of which we have any record were those in the groves of Eden. There, before man had fallen, Adam and Eve had many sweet communings face to face with God. How happy must they have been, as the evening twilight was falling, with their loving Lord shedding blessings upon their innocence. But another hour came, when man trembled before God in the first consciousness of his sin and degradation. The heavenly harmonies were broken. There was no joy in that vesper hour-the last in Eden...
...Jews unquestionably received their idea of the devil at the time of their captivity. He is not spoken of in Genesis, although some regard the serpent in the Garden of Eden as a symbol of the devil. The first mention of Satan is made in Job, which, it is claimed, was written at the time of the captivity. In this book Satan is still an angel and has not yet become a tempter. The next mention of him is in Zechariah; and in Chronicles the idea of him is complete. The introduction of the idea of a devil made...
...discourse, Mr. Fiske said, would be composed of fragmentary thoughts suggested by the verse in Genesis where the Serpent says to Eve: "Your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." The story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, was found in the Vendedad, though the chief attribute of the Parsee Areman was that of a mischief-maker. In both accounts, there is a marked anthropomorphism. God, in jealous anger at man's divine knowledge of good and evil drives him away from the garden. It was not strange that...
...first sight hardly credible that death should have entered into the world by one man's disobedience and that in so slight a thing as eating fruit from a certain tree. But taken as a parable this story has a lesson for every one. The Garden of Eden may stand for the life of a man, and in this garden there is always growing a tree fostered by the same things that bring forth the best products, and to touch this tree is death. In every life there is a peculiar temptation. The banker, the minister, the man with...