...become ours. I. But what, was their very first duty? — Industry. "And the Lord Ood took the man, and put him into the garden to dress it, and to keep it." God having made man, knew that he must have something to do in order to be happy. This then is the...

...Adam, on his eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the Lord God took Adam, and put him into the garden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; hut...

...both to mind and body, as it is the most ancient and the most honourable. "The Lord took the man, and put him into the garden, to dress it, and to keep it," — not to behold it only, and to revel in the enjoyment of the fruits, which unless earned by toil...

...when the Lord God had planted the garden, and fashioned man after his own image, " he took the man and put him into the garden, to dress it, and to keep it." There was no curse upon the ground ; and, therefore, we suppose not that it required, ere it would give forth...

...the original words ; and at this distance of time and place it is of little consequence. Verse 15. o 1ajS `P ٪6X((*l Horticulture, or gardening, is the first kind of employment on record, and that in which man was engaged...

...become ours. I. But what was their very first duty ? — Industry. " And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden to dress it, and to keep it." God having made man, knew that he must have something to do in order to be happy. This then is the...

...when God placed man in Eden, in a state of holiness and happiness, he did not intend him to be Elle. ܁ ~ ـ 0 , м H e gave him the whole earth, but with a commission to ' subdue it.' But this commisaon to ' subdue...

...who created all things after the counsel of his own will ; and thus we find, when he had created man, he put him into the garden to dress it and to keep it, he also gave him a very extensive grant ; but in his wisdom he prohibited one tree, by which his ruling...

...man. He was supplied with the vigorous muscular exercises of horticulture. " The LORD," we are told, " put him into the garden to dress it and to keep it."* Mr Combe adds, " In contending with, and surmounting physical and moral difficulties, Combativeness...

...labourer, be found to cultivate the garden thus marvellously planted ? " The Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden to dress it and to keep it." Yes, unfallen man was to have a home — this home not a building of wood or stone — of stately rocks...