The Magistrates Bear the Sword (1)

After the flood, the people of God, together with the whole human race, enter upon a new era, stand in a new and in many respects different world and begin a new dispensation. There is a very distinct difference between the prediluvian and postdiluvian world, a difference which we must understand for a correct conception of the historic development of the covenant of God. For that new world, with its altered conditions, that emerged from the flood, was the stage upon which God was to display...