Paradise the First (1)

It is important, first of all, that we understand the significance and the idea of what is told us in the second chapter of Genesis concerning Paradise and related matters. To this we must pay attention before we begin our discussion of the subject of Paradise as such. This significance and idea are set forth in the first verse of this section of Genesis, Genesis 24: "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth...