Chapter I

CREATION, p. 9.
Naturally the first fact revealed; Its moral lessons, 9;
The origin of this record and the manner of its revelation to
men, 12;
Nature and the supernatural, 13;
Theories on the origin of life, 14;
The sense of the word “day” in Gen. 1: 16; Argued
(1) From the laws of language, 17;
(2) From the narrative itself, 18;
Objection from the law of the Sabbath, 21;
(3) From Geological facts and their bearings on the question,
22;
Prominent points of harmony between Genesis and Geology,
25;
(4) Does “Create” (Gen. 1: 1) refer to the original production
of matter? 26;
(5) The relation of v. 1 to v. 2, and to the rest of the
chapter, 29;
(6) The work of the fourth day, 31;
(7) The sense of the record as to the _origin of life_,
vegetable and animal, 32;
(8) On God’s “making man in his own image,” 33;
(9) The relation of Gen. 2: 4–25 to Gen. 1, 35;
(10) Invariability of “_kind_” in the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, 37;
The theory of Mr. Darwin, 38;
The issue between Darwin and Moses, 38;
Darwin’s five main arguments, 39;
Brief replies, 40;
Objections bearing generally against Darwin’s scheme, 43;
(1) It requires almost infinite time back of the
earliest traces or possibilities of life, 43;
(2) Requires what Nature does not give――a close
succession of animal races, differing but
infinitesimally from each other, 43;
(3) His argument is essentially _materialistic_ and is
therefore false, 45;
(4) It ignores man’s intellectual and moral nature, 46;
(5) It ignores or overrides the law of nature by which
hybrids are infertile, 46;
(6) This scheme is in many points revolting to the
common sense of mankind, 46;
(7) It is ♦reckless of the authority of revelation, 48.

CHAPTER II.

THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, 49;
Two main questions:
1. Is the human family older than Adam? 49;
(1) The argument for man’s high antiquity,
From traces of his skeleton, 50;
From his tools and works, 51;
(2) From the traditions and chronologies of the old
nations, 59.

CHAPTER III.

HEBREW CHRONOLOGY, 60;
2. How far back was Adam? 60;
From birth of Christ back to the founding of Solomon’s
Temple, 60;
First disputed period――that of the Judges, 60;
Second disputed period――that of the sojourn in Egypt, 62;
Third disputed period――between Terah and Abraham, 64;
Fourth disputed period――from the creation to the flood, 66;
Fifth disputed period――from the flood to the call of
Abraham, 68.

CHAPTER IV.

ANTIQUITY OF MAN RESUMED, 72;
On the Antiquity of Egypt, 72;
The date of Menes, its first king, and of the pyramids, 74;
Unity of the human race: Were there races of pre-Adamic
men, now extinct? 75;
Are the present living races descendants of the same first
pair? 75.

CHAPTER V.

THE SABBATH, 77;
As old as Eden; made for man as a race.

CHAPTER VI.

THE EVENTS OF EDEN, 81;
I. Is the description of man’s fall symbolic or historic? 81;
II. The moral trial, 84;
III. The temptation, 87;
IV. The fall, 88;
The curse; the first installment of the penalty for
transgression, 89;
The first promise, 90.

CHAPTER VII.

FROM THE FALL TO THE FLOOD, 92;
1. Notes on special passages;
Gen. 4: 1, “I have gotten a man――the Lord,” 92;
Gen. 4: 6, 7――words of the Lord to Cain, 92;
Gen. 4: 23, 24, the song of Lamech, 92;
2. Abel’s offering and the origin of sacrifices, 93;
3. The great moral lessons of the antediluvian age, 95.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE FLOOD, 99;
Its moral causes, 99;
Its physical causes, 101;
Was this flood universal? 102;
As to the earth’s surface, 102
As to its population, 104;
Traditions of a great deluge, 105.

CHAPTER IX.

FROM THE FLOOD TO THE CALL OF ABRAHAM, 107;
1. The law against murder and its death-penalty, 107;
2. The prophecy of Noah, 108;
3. The genealogy of the historic nations, 110;
4. Babel and the confusion of tongues, 112.

CHAPTER X.

ABRAHAM, 114;
His personal history; the divine purposes in the new system
inaugurated with him; Concentration of moral forces; a more
definite _covenant_ between God and his people; Utilizing
the family relation, 116;
Developing a great example of the obedience of faith, 120;
In leaving his country at God’s call, 120;
In waiting long but hopefully for his one son of promise, 120;
In obeying the command to offer this son a sacrifice, 120;
God’s revelations to Abraham _progressive_, 122;
The missionary idea in this system――blessings to all the
nations, 125;
The Messiah included in these promises, 126;
Sodom and Gomorrah, 128;
The angel of the Lord, 130.

CHAPTER XI.

THE PATRIARCHS, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, 132;
Isaac, 132;
Jacob, 133;
At Bethel, 133;
At Mahanaim, 137;
The struggle of prayer; The points and grounds of this
conflict; The law of prevailing prayer, 140;
Jacob and Joseph, 143;
Developments of personal character, 144;
Joseph in Egypt, 146;
The hand of God in this history:
Seen in the sufferings of the innocent, 155;
Seen in overruling sin for good, 158;
The purposes of God in locating Israel in Egypt, 160;
Ancient Egyptian history and life confirms Moses, 162;
Special passages considered:
Going down into Sheol, Gen. 37: 35, 166;
Jacob’s benedictions upon his sons, Gen. 49, 168;
The Scepter of Judah, Gen. 49: 10, 169;
The less readable portions of Genesis, 171;
Close of Genesis, 172.

CHAPTER XII.

EXODUS 173;
The oppression, 173;
Moses, 175;
His great mission, 179;
The ten plagues, 185:
These plagues supernatural, 187;
Several of them specially adapted to Egypt, 189;
The case of the magicians, 190;
The shape of the demand upon Pharaoh to let the people go, 193;
The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, 194;
History of the case, 194;
What is said of God’s purpose in it, 203;
Light on this case from God’s revealed character, 204.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE PASSOVER, 205;
Consecration of all first-born, 207;
The long route to Canaan, 209;
The march and the pursuit, 210;
The guiding pillar of cloud and of fire, 211;
The locality of the Red Sea crossing, 215.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE HISTORIC CONNECTIONS OF MOSES WITH PHARAOH AND EGYPT, 216.

♦CHAPTER XV.

THE EVENTS NEAR AND AT SINAI, 222;
The manna, 222;
Rephidim; water by miracle, 225;
The battle with Amalek, 229;
Jethro, 230;
The Scenes at Sinai, 232;
The national covenant; The giving of the law, 232;
The moral law, given from Sinai, 236;
To be distinguished from “the statutes and judgments,” 236;
The commandments considered severally;
1. 238;
2. 239;
3. 241;
4. 241;
5. 243;
6–9. 243;
10. 245;
Progress in the revelations of God to man, 246.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE HEBREW THEOCRACY, 251;
The supreme power, 251;
The powers of Jehovah’s Vicegerent, 253;
The General Assembly and their Elders, 254;
The scope afforded for self-government, democracy, 255;
The fundamental principles of this system, 258;
Its union of Church and State, 259;
Its principles and usages in regard to war, with notice of the
war-commission against the doomed Canaanites, 261;
The grant of Canaan, and the command to extirpate the
Canaanites, 262.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE CIVIL INSTITUTES OF MOSES, OR THE HEBREW CODE OF CIVIL LAW,
270;
General view of it, 270;
Analysis of the crimes condemned, 273;
Crimes against God:
Idolatry, 273;
Perjury, 274;
Presumptuous sins, 275;
Violations of the Sabbath, 276;
Blasphemy, 276;
Magic arts, 276;
Crimes against parents and rulers, 279;
Crimes against person and life, _i. e._ crimes of blood, 280;
Cities of refuge, 282;
Murder by unknown hands, 284;
Crimes against chastity, 285;
Statutes to protect rights of property, 286;
Statutes against usury, 288;
Statutes for the relief of the poor, 289;
Crimes against reputation, 292.