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by the serpent, may be fairly interpreted in a somewhat 
different manner to that commonly expressed. “ Naghash,” 
translated “ Serpent,” and fancied to be a reptile, may also be 
translated “ anxious and impulsive desire” to acquire the 
knowledge of good and evil. 
Next we read that “ Adam and Eve hid themselves from 
the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden.” 
(This explanation is more rational than the sewing together of 
fig-leaves to make aprons.) The rest of the subject exposes 
the paltry cowardice of the now carnal man, conscience- 
stricken, attempting to exculpate himself from transgressing, 
or risking the danger of eating or even touching the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil, and shifting the blame on the 
woman. The curse on both, of toil and labour in the earth, 
and the pains of childbirth, was completed by their expulsion 
from Eden, and their return prevented by Cherubim and a 
flaming sword turning everywhere to prevent all access to the 
tree of life in the condition in which they then were. 
The following chapters of the record give the genealogy of 
the Sabbatic Adamic race. 
In the sixth chapter, “ When men began to multiply on the 
earth, and daughters were born unto them,” from both 
streams of creation, “the sons of God” (probably referring 
to the sons of the Sabbatic Adam) “ saw the daughters of ” 
pre- Sabbatic mankind, “ that they were fair, and took them to 
be wives of their choice,” as Cain had already done in his 
progress eastward of Eden among the people of Nod. The 
conduct of mankind from both sources seems to have dis- 
pleased the Lord. When the wickedness of men became so 
great, and their imaginations and thoughts continued to be 
only evil, the Lord is represented as grieved, and declared, — 
“ I will destroy man whom I have created ; both man, and 
beast, and creeping thing, and fowls of the air ; for it re- 
penteth me that I have made them.” 
It is necessary to keep in view that the term “ son ” does 
not always mean the offspring of generation, but it often in- 
cludes the stranger within the domestic circle; as I will fully 
notice shortly. 
Noah being divinely selected and directed to build an ark 
of gopher wood, with a most complete specification of its 
length, breadth, and structure, for the purpose of contain- 
ing a certain number of the different animals living, it may 
be, upon the great in ter- continental island in the Atlantic 
(the Atalanta of Plato), and connecting the two continents, 
with marked traces of the westward repression of the North 
American continent just beyond the tropics, evidenced by 
