SECTION I. 491 of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. Verse 19. And the Lord God brought every beast of the field and every fowl of the air to Adam to see what he would call them. Verse 22. And the rib which the Lord God had taken fromman made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. All this seems to be the transactions and language of the Lord God ap- pearing in human shape, and with human voice to Adam. Gen. iii. 8. " And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.-9. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, where art thou ? -10. And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself..11. And he said, who told thee that thou wast naked, &c. Verse 13. And the Lord God said unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, the ser- pent beguiled me and I did eat. Verse21. Unto Adam and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them," &c. I think there is a very plain description of a visible appear. awe and a human voice in this scene and these dialogues. Adam and hiswife could never be said to hide themselves from time pre- sence of the Lord, if he had not before manifested a visible presence to them ; nor could they know his voice, if he had not conversed with them by a human voice before : This is a pretty plain proof that God conversedwith them in a human manner in the foregoing instances. Nor yet could they have bid themselves from a mere voice, amongst trees, nor could they have been ashamed of their nakedness before a mere voice, if they hád not known God before by a visible presence and appearance, whose face they now avoided among the trees. It is probable that God not only conversed with Adam and Eve, but with their children and family in the same manner in the beginning of the world ; for you read a plain dialogue be- tween God and Cain ; Gen. iv. 6. " And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth ? If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted ? And the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy bro- ther ? And Cain said, I know not : am I my brother's keeper ? And God replied again, what hast thou done ? the vòice of thv brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground, &c. A fugi- tive-and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth : And Cain said unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than I can bear : Be- hold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face I shall be hid. Ver. 16. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord." Surely every reader among the Jews, for whom Moses wrote this, would have an idea of the great God's appearing and conversing with Adam and his
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