Studies In Genesis

by Robert S. Candlish

Publisher:

Faithlife

, 1997

Overview

These conservative, expository messages are rich in devotional emphasis and contain many theological discussions of special value to all students of the Word. All the major events of Genesis are expounded to bring out the doctrine of grace. Thoughts and observations are expressed with a simplicity and economy of language seldom mastered.

Contents

Top Highlights

“In the first place,’ he received Isaac from the dead, in a figure.’ In the signal and seasonable deliverance of his son he had a vivid representation of the resurrection which he had believed that God was able to effect. To all intents and purposes, Isaac had been dead, and was now alive from the dead. It was an emphatic rehearsal of the real and literal resurrection; nor could the patriarch, having been thus brought to feel the power of the world to come, ever afterwards lose the vivid sight and sense he had got of its eternal realities.” (Genesis 22:1)

“There was a covenant; and there were the sacraments of a covenant—the signs and seals of it” (Genesis 2:4)

“There is the widest possible difference between our believing certain truths as the result of reasoning or discovery, and our believing them on the direct assertion of a credible witness whom we see and hear—especially if the witness be the very individual to whom the truths relate, and indeed himself their author.” (Genesis 1:1)

“And it may be with reference to his immediate personal agency, as connected with all revelation, that this came to be the standing mode of announcing a prophetic oracle—‘the Word of the Lord came.’” (Genesis 15:1)

“Shame, therefore, fear, and falsehood, are the bitter fruits of sin. Guilt is felt; death is dreaded; guile is practised.” (Genesis 3:6)

Endorsements

We characterize this as THE work on Genesis ... It should be in every biblical library.

C.H. Spurgeon

Product Details

• Title: Studies in Genesis
• Author: Robert S. Candlish
• Publisher: Faithlife
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Sermons, English › Scotland; Bible. O.T. Genesis › Sermons
• Resource ID: LLS:29.6.1
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:04:14Z

About Robert S. Candlish

Robert Smith Candlish (March 23, 1806 – October 19, 1873), Scottish divine, was born at Edinburgh, and spent his early years in Glasgow, where he graduated in 1823. During the years 1823-1826 he went through the prescribed course at the divinity hall, then presided over by Dr Stevenson MacGill. On leaving, accompanied a pupil as private tutor to Eton, where he stayed two years.