Excerpt from The Century Bible, a Modern Commentary, Vol. 1: Genesis Again, there are many striking illustrations in Genesis of the fact that inspiration constantly leads men on to new truth, and yet at the same time' enables them to retain what was true in their old faith, and thus to acknowledge the continuity of Revelation, and to find a Word of God alike in the earlier and less perfect, and in the more advanced teaching of their sacred literature. Thus the two accounts of the Creation 1 represent two different stages of religious thought. Yet the reverence for the more ancient story did not prevent the Israelites from accepting another symbolic narrative which em bodied more advanced truth; nor did their enthusiastic appreciation of new light lead them to cast aside a Scrip ture hallowed by many sacred memories and associa tions. The two were placed side by side. Our authors have even been careful to preserve edifying fragments of old tradition when the rest of a story had to be discarded, because it shocked spiritual feelings enlightened by the progress of Revelation; as, for instance, in the case of the account2 of the marriage of the sons of God and the daughters of men, which is obviously, incomplete. It is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.