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Adamite race, since Adam is the Biblical name for mankind ; and 
though it is quite possible that the first two chapters of Genesis 
may embody different accounts (since in the first Elohim is the 
name of the Almighty agent, and in the second Jehovah Elohim), 
yet they are obviously accounts of the same creation. If doubt 
could exist, — as it does exist, — on this point, it would seem to us 
to be quite set aside by the very name assigned in the first chapter 
to the ancestors of the human race, as well as by consideration of 
the nature of the being thus created. It is emphatically “ the 
Adam ” * that is made by Elohim in the course of the sixth day or 
period, and apparently towards the close of it. His being ushered 
into the scene prepared for him (or rather “ them ” v. 28), is the 
completion of the work which God pronounced very good. God 
called their name Adam in the day they were created. There 
is no time after this for the creation of another Adam, and the 
possibility of any previous formation of such a being is set aside by 
the very tenour of the document itself. 
The identity of the creation of man in Genesis, chap, ii., with 
that in chap. i. is irrefragably proved by our Lord's quoting the 
two together verbatim (see LXX.) in Matt. xix. 4 (Gen. i. 27) and 
5 (Gen. .ii. 24). 
14. On the fifth day the waters were commanded to bring forth 
abundantly shoals of living creatures and fowls at the same time to 
fly in the open firmament of heaven ; but coincidently with these 
huge Saurian monsters (the whole race of Tanninimf), so called 
from the length to which their dragon forms were extended. J With 
these filling earth, air, and waters, the globe was obviously unfitted 
for the abode of man. 
15. It is not till the sixth day that the congeners - of man are 
introduced, — beasts of the field and wild beasts, water-oxen (the 
whole race of Behemali) and creeping things of the earth :§ 
serpentine some of them, but those formidable dragons are seen no 
longer. On the evening of this sixth day the Adam was formed ; 
and then came the Sabbath, and creation work ceased. || 
* nnxn-ns 4 Gen. i. 26.— (See Appendix B.) 
+ “It seems to apply to some large amphibious animal, serpent, or 
lizard.” — De Sola, in loco. Di^nriVIX 
J See Ges. Lex. sub voce Comp. Isaiah xli. 9, Ez. xxix. 3, “ The 
great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers,” &c. § 
|| “ God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because thereon he 
rested from all his work which God had created, thenceforth to act .” — (De 
Sola, Genesis.) “ The older commentators, the Talmud, Aben Ezra, &c., 
properly render to continue acting.” We find, in accordance with 
this view, the course of nature acting from that time to this, but nothing 
new added to the course of nature. It is overwhelming to think how much 
