Historical Description of the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ

...wickedness and corruption: For no sooner had our first parents fallen, and their punishment been set before their eyes, than there immediately followed a merciful promise of redemption: Gen. 3:15 I will put enmity between your seed and her seed, and the same shall crush your head. original: "den kop vertreden," a reference to the 'Protoevangelium,' the first prophecy of the Messiah's victory over evil. Thus, being nourished and awakened by this hope, they attributed this same promise to the first son they obtained: Gen. 4:1 Eve saying, I have acquired the man of the Lord, although it was not him, and things turned out quite differently for him; indeed, much more so for the other, namely Abel, who presented an Image The author uses Abel as a "Type" or "Figure" of Christ. of the future Shepherd, who would be killed through the envy of his brothers, just as it actually happened.

Gen. 6:2 Meanwhile, the world fell more and more into sin and unrighteousness, and it seemed as if God had withdrawn His hand and entirely forgotten to put His holy purpose into action; the wantonness and wickedness of the flesh increased, and the human race was as if clouded by a mist of sins. Yet in the midst of this The year of the world 987. original: "Anno Mundi," a chronological system dating from the creation of the world. darkness, God showed an example of faith, and a living expression that He had prepared a Heavenly dwelling for His own, when He took the pious Enoch away from the earth, which could provide great comfort to upright hearts. Meanwhile, seeing evil still increasing, they were continually waiting for a redeemer, comforter, and savior, whom they looked forward to with great longing. Lamech the son of Methuselah, Year 1056. when he had seen the world in its corruption for one hundred and eighty-two years and was obtaining a son, he spoke: Gen. 5:29 This one shall comfort us in our toil and labor on the earth, which the Lord has cursed, for that reason naming him Noah. Yet he was not yet the one who was to come, but just as the stars in the heavens bear witness to a greater...