Excerpt from Sacred History From the Creation to the Giving of the Law With a wonderful patience and skill, has the author rescued from obscurity and, possible contempt a multitude of Scripture passages, by so setting them in their honorable and what are shown to be their necessary places, in the grand whole of Sacred History, that their beauty and value are at once discerned. The author's enthusiasm and devout interest in the subject of Sacred or Biblical History, which began early, have been the growth of a lifetime. He had a thorough acquaintance with the theme, resulting from a careful study of every verse and line of the Bible bearing upon it, and from a comprehensive reading of the literature of all sides of the subject; which study and reading have extended through more than forty of the best and most vigorous of his years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.