our reading is not knowledge, but experience of grace. For, properly understood, the Scripture is all full of

Christ, and all intended to point to Christ as our only Savior. It is not only the law, which is a schoolmaster

unto Christ, nor the types, which are shadows of Christ, nor yet the prophecies, which are predictions of

Christ; but the whole Old Testament history is full of Christ. Even where persons are not, events may be

types. If any one failed to see in Isaac or in Joseph a personal type of Christ, he could not deny that the

offering up of Isaac, or the selling of Joseph, and his making provision for the sustenance of his brethren,

are typical of events in the history of our Lord. And so indeed every event points to Christ, even as He is

alike the beginning, the center, and the end of all history - "the same yesterday, and today, and for ever."

One thing follows from this: only that reading or study of the Scriptures can be sufficient or profitable

through which we learn to know Christ - and that as "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" to us. And for this

purpose we ought constantly to ask the aid and teaching of the Holy Spirit.

A few brief remarks, helpful to the study of patriarchal history, may here find a place. In general, the Old

Testament may be arranged into "The Law and the Prophets."  2

It was possibly with reference to this division that the Law consisted of the five books of Moses -ten being

the symbolical number of completeness, and the Law with its commands being only half complete without

"the Prophets" and the promises. But assuredly to the fivefold division of the Law answers the arrangement

of the Psalms into five books, of which each closes with a benediction, as follows: -

Book 1: Psalm 1-41

Book 2: Psalm 42-72

Book 3: Psalm 73-89

Book 4: Psalm 90-106

Book 5: Psalm 107-150

- the last Psalm standing as a grand final benediction.

The Law or the Five Books of Moses are commonly called the Pentateuch, a Greek term meaning the

"fivefold," or "five-parted" Book. Each of these five books commonly bears a title given by the Greek

translators of the Old Testament (the so-called LXX.), in accordance with the contents of each: Genesis

(origin, creation), Exodus (going out from Egypt), Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (Second Law, or

the Law a second time). The Jews designate each book by the first or else the most prominent word with

which it begins.

The book of Genesis consists of two great parts, each again divided into five sections. Every section is

clearly marked by being introduced as "generations," or "originations" - in Hebrew Toledoth - as follows:

PART 1 - THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD TO THE FINAL ARRANGEMENT AND SETTLEMENT OF THE

VARIOUS NATIONS

General Introduction: Chap. 1-2:3.

1.  Generations of the Heavens and the Earth, 2:4-4:26.

2.  Book of the Generations of Adam 5-6:8.

3.  The Generations of Noah, 6:9-9:29.

4.  The Generations of the Sons of Noah 10-11:9.

5.  The Generations of Shem, 11:10-26.