Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross

Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross

This book was written in a period when many words in the text had not become standardized in their spelling or hyphenation. These variations have been left unchanged unless noted in text. 3 There are many Hebrew legends which have gathered about that early figure on the dim edge of history, Enoch, the son of Jared,not the Enoch, son of Cain (after whom the latter named the city that he builded in the land of Nod), but the Enoch of whom the Biblical record is simply that he lived so many years, walked with God and was not, for God took him. According to one of these legends he was the first great teacher, inventor, and scientist of the race and the first to attempt to pass on, in a systematic way, from generation to generation, the wisdoms of human experience and divine revelation. For, having been forewarned that the earth would be destroyed once by fire and once by water, he erected two pillars (that came to be known as Enochs Pillars) on which he caused to be inscribed all such learning as had been delivered unto or invented by mankind. Thus, the legend adds, it was that all knowledge and learning were not lost, for one of these pillars remained after the flood. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45701
Author: Finley, John H. (John Huston)
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Contributor (Author): Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple, 1856-1929, Kent, Charles Foster, 1867-1925, More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937, Taylor, Robert Bruce, 1869-