In the Beginning, And the Adamic Earth:
An Exposition of Genesis 1 – 2:3
By William Kelly.
This is twelve chapter work by William Kelly (Brethren) on Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 2:3.
CONTENTS
Genesis 1:1
Genesis 1:2
Genesis 1:3-5
Genesis 1:6-8
Genesis 1:9-13
Genesis 1:14-19
Genesis 1:20-23
Genesis 1:24, 25
Genesis 1:26, 27
Genesis 1:28
Genesis 1:29-31
Genesis 2:1-3
New Edition, Revised
Preface to the First Edition.
The volume consists of papers which have already appeared in the Bible Treasury and thus secured a considerable circulation. But it has been strongly urged that even those who read these successive articles desire to have them as a consecutive whole, not only for their own reconsideration, but as much or more for the help of thousands unacquainted with that periodical, and more willing to examine the exposition of Gen. 1 – 2: 3 in a convenient collective form.
The writer has only to express his growing sense of the perfectness and inestimable value of this scripture as of all others. He prays that the work, notwithstanding all shortcomings may be by grace helpful to all who (in a day of effort to resuscitate lifeless forms and of reactionary free-thinking, both of which schools of unbelief struggle for the mastery) would keep Christ’s word and not deny His name. In faith and love they would also seek earnestly the winning of souls from the imminent and increasing peril of going back, from the true light of Christ in all its fulness, to the darkness of a world now rapidly becoming apostate; which, by wisdom even more dangerously than by folly, knew not God, and rejects as foolishness the wisdom of God in Christ and Him crucified.
London, March, 1894.