diff --git a/test.md b/test.md index 2190c74..e69de29 100644 --- a/test.md +++ b/test.md @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ - - -       - - WE have now before us the holy Bible, or *book,* for so *bible* signifies. We call it *the book,* by way - of eminency; for it is incomparably the best book that ever was written, the book of books, - shining like the sun in the firmament of learning, other valuable and useful books, like the moon - and stars, borrowing their light from it. We call it the holy book, because it was written by - holy men, and indited by the Holy Ghost; it is perfectly pure from all falsehood and corrupt - intention; and the manifest tendency of it is to promote holiness among men. The great - things of God's law and gospel are here *written* to us, that they might be reduced to a greater - certainty, might spread further, remain longer, and be transmitted to distant places and ages - more pure and entire than possibly they could be by report and tradition: and we shall have a - great deal to answer for if these things which belong to our peace, being thus committed to us - in black and white, be neglected by us as a strange and foreign thing, - Hos. viii. 12. The - scriptures, or writings of the several inspired penmen, from Moses down to St. John, in which - divine light, like that of the morning, shone gradually (the sacred canon being now completed), - are all put together in this blessed Bible, which, thanks be to God, we have in our hands, and - they make as perfect a day as we are to expect on this side of heaven. Every part was good, but - all together very good. This is the *light that shines in a dark place* (2 Pet. i. 19), - and a dark - place indeed the world would be without the Bible. - -       - - We have before us that part of the Bible which we call the *Old Testament,* containing the - acts and monuments of the church from the creation almost to the coming of Christ in the flesh, - which was about four thousand years--the truths then revealed, the laws then enacted, the - devotions then paid, the prophecies then given, and the events which concerned that distinguished - body, so far as God saw fit to preserve to us the knowledge of them. This is called - a *testament,* or *covenant* (***Diatheke***), because it was a settled declaration of the *will* of God concerning - man in a federal way, and had its force from the designed death of the great testator, - *the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,* (Rev. xiii. 8.) - It is called the *Old Testament,* with relation to the *New,* which does not cancel and supersede it, but crown and perfect it, by - the bringing in of that better hope which was typified and foretold in it; the Old Testament - still remains glorious, though the New far exceeds in glory, - (2 Cor. iii. 9.) - -       - - We have before us that part of the Old Testament which we call the *Pentateuch,* or five books of - Moses, that servant of the Lord who excelled all the other prophets, and typified the great - prophet. In our Saviour's distribution of the books of the Old Testament into the *law,* the - *prophets,* and the *psalms,* or *Hagiographa,* these are the *law;* for they contain not only the - laws given to Israel, in the last four, but the laws given to Adam, to Noah, and to Abraham, in - the first. These five books were, for aught we know, the first that ever were written; for we - have not the least mention of any *writing* in all the book of Genesis, nor till God bade Moses - write - (Exod. xvii. 14); - and some think Moses himself never learned to write till God set him - his copy in the writing of the Ten Commandments upon the tables of stone. However, we are - sure these books are the most ancient writings now extant, and therefore best able to give us a - satisfactory account of the most ancient things. - -       - - We have before us the first and longest of those five books, which we call *Genesis,* written, some - think, when Moses was in Midian, for the instruction and comfort of his suffering brethren in - Egypt: I rather think he wrote it in the wilderness, after he had been in the mount with God, - where, probably, he received full and particular instructions for the writing of it. And, as he - framed the tabernacle, so he did the more excellent and durable fabric of this book, exactly - according to the pattern shown him in the mount, into which it is better to resolve the certainty - of the things herein contained than into any tradition which possibly might be handed - down from Adam to Methuselah, from him to Shem, from him to Abraham, and so to the - family of Jacob. *Genesis* is a name borrowed from the Greek. It signifies the *original,* or - *generation:* fitly is this book so called, for it is a history of originals--the creation of the - world, the entrance of sin and death into it, the invention of arts, the rise of nations, and - especially the planting of the church, and the state of it in its early days. It is also a history - of generations--the generations of Adam, Noah, Abraham, &c., not endless, but useful genealogies. - The beginning of the New Testament is called *Genesis* too - (Matt. i. 1,) - ***geneseos,*** the book of the *genesis,* or *generation,* of Jesus Christ. Blessed be God for that book which - shows us our remedy, as this opens our wound. Lord, open our eyes, that we may see the - wondrous things both of thy law and gospel! ---- - [Table of Contents] [Previous] [Next] Matthew Henry*Commentary on the Whole Bible* (1706) - ---- - **Back to Bibles Net . Com - Online Christian Library ****Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Free Download**Contact Us --- \ No newline at end of file