Identifier: biblereadingsfor01batt (find matches)
Title: Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Bible Seventh-Day Adventists
Publisher: Battle Creek, MI Chicago, IL : Review and Herald Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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as so destitute of inhabitantsas in the beginning and at the time of the flood, God decided that one womanfor one man was all-sufficient for the propagation and happiness of the race,then it is certain that each generation thereafter diminished the excuse forwife-plurality which might have been offered at creation and when the ante-diluvians were destroyed, if ever. And if mans need of society be referredto, it was never so urgent as when Adams animated rib was his sole com-panion, and when (he storm-tossed ark rested on the hights of Ararat. SECOND REPETITION OF ORIGINAL PLAN. 9. After the flood, when Satan, in trying to overthrow Gods plan, had again led men into idolatry and polygamy, why did theLord choose as the progenitor of a spiritual race, a man who hadbut one wife ? -Wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Mai. 2 : 15. Abramtook Sarai his itrife, . . . and they (man and wife) went forth to go into theland of Canaan, and into the land of Canaan they came. Gen. 12 : 5.
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(.r56o ) kTHE DEPARTURE OF HAGAR. TWt. wtotfMCrt. \usinvmou. 56 i ATTEMPTED COUNTERFEIT. 10. When, through lack of faith, it seemed that Gods promise of a son could not be fulfilled because of Sarais age, what prevalent evilcustom of that day did she induce Abram to adopt, hopingthereby to secure the promised heir ? And Sarai, Abrams wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram haddwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abramto be his wife. Gen. 16:3. 11. Did this shameful proceeding make Hagar the wife of Abram ? Sarai soon after realized the folly of her act in thus trying to change Gods endur-ing plan, and never again alluded to Hagar as the wife of Abram, but calledher my maid, and this bondwoman (not second wife). Abram neverregarded Hagar as his wife, but when speaking to Sarai, said thy maid(not my wife). Hagar did not consider herself the wife of Abram, but only themaid of my mistress, Sarai. The angel of the Lord called Hagar Saraismaid, and

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