GLACIAL EPOCH UPON THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND. 75 
lived “ for ever,” if he had not fallen from his high estate as a son 
of God (Luke iii, 38) and partaker of the Divine Nature, and of 
the “ nishmath-Shaddai,” or inspiration of the Almighty. The 
comparison instituted between him and our Blessed Lord in the 
New Testament as the First and Second Adams, points to a simi- 
larity of purpose in the advent of both. In accordance with this 
view, Jacob Bdhman gives a remarkable description of Adam. 
“ Adam was created,” he says, “ to be the restoring angel of this 
world. His nature was twofold : Within he had an angelic soul 
and body, derived from the powers of heaven. Without he had a 
life and body derived from the powers of earth. The former was 
given him that he might be separate from, and superior to, the 
world. He was endowed with the latter, that he might be connected 
with and operative in the world. 
This conception of Adam as Ben-Elohim, or Son of God, explains 
the otherwise inexplicable passage in Genesis vi, 2-6 (R.V.). 
The Beney-Elohim of this chapter are the Adamic race, the 
Benoth Ha-adham are the women of the pre-Adamic races. The 
mingling of races is put as the cause of the great increase of 
wdckedness on the earth. In this chapter we can distinguish four 
races, viz. 
(1) Beney-Elohim, or Elohites. 
(2) Beney-ha-adam, or Adamites. 
(3) The Nephilim. 
(4) A mixed race (Hag-gibborim) resulting from the union of 
the first three. 
Adam was the first Federal Head of the human race, just as our 
Lord was the second. In this sense, therefore, he is the father, and 
Eve the mother, of the human race. 
The expression “ mother of all living ” (Genesis iii, 20), however, 
is not a genuine reading, but a gloss, according to Hastings’ 
Dictionary of the Bible, article “ Adam.” 
From the hypotheses here indicated, it will be seen : (1) That the 
Sacred Book is in opposition to no branch of science or to any 
historical record ; and 
(2) That the original record in Genesis i, being absolutely 
dateless, it does not conflict with any discovery, geological, 
monumental, or otherwise, which has been, or may be made, pointing 
to an immense antiquity for Man. 
