Chapter 2—Women of Note in the Old Testament
A study of women’s work in connection with the cause of God in Old
Testament times will teach us lessons that will enable us to meet
emergencies in the work today. We may not be brought into such a
critical and prominent place as were the people of God in the time of
Esther; but often converted women can act an important part in more
humble positions. This many have been doing, and are still ready to
do.—
Special Testimonies, Series B 15:2
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Eve, Mother of All
This chapter is based on
Genesis 1 and 2
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“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the
host of them by the breath of His mouth.” “For he spake, and it was
done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”
Psalm 33:6, 9
. He “laid
the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.”
Psalm 104:5
.As the earth came forth from the hand of its Maker, it
was exceedingly beautiful.... The angelic host viewed the scene with
delight, and rejoiced at the wonderful works of God.
After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been
called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator, and the
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one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon
the stage of action. To him was given dominion over all that his eye
could behold; for “God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over ... all the earth.... So
God created man in his own image, ... male and female created he
them.” Here is clearly set forth the origin of the human race; and the
divine record is so plainly stated that there is no occasion for erroneous
conclusions. God created man in His own image. Here is no mystery.
There is no ground for the supposition that man was evolved by slow
degrees of development from the lower forms of animal or vegetable
life. Such teaching lowers the great work of the Creator to the level of
man’s narrow, earthly conceptions. Men are so intent upon excluding
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