Blessing and Cursing

History, in a certain sense, repeats itself; and while in its successive stages and phases it repeats itself, it also advances to an ever clearer realization of the purpose of Him Whose counsel shall stand and Who shall do all His pleasure. Thus we may notice a certain analogy between the history of the fall and what follows immediately after in Paradise, and that which follows soon upon the deluge. For even as the first progenitor of the race falls into sin, so the first thing that is related...