From the Protevangel to the Flood (1)

The period of sacred history which we are about to discuss extends from the time of the fall and the first announcement of the promise to the time of the destruction of the first world and the salvation of the church by water. This is a period of some sixteen and one-half centuries according to the chronology of Scripture itself. To that chronology and its significance we will give our attention later. What we wish to stress at the beginning of our discussion, first of all, is that we are...