Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets

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Baring-Gould Sabine. Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets

PREFACE

I. THE FALL OF THE ANGELS

II. ADAM

III. EVE.37

IV. THE FALL OF MAN

V. ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE FALL

VI. CAIN AND ABEL

VII. THE DEATH OF ADAM

VIII. SETH

IX. CAINAN SON OF ENOS

X. ENOCH

XI. THE GIANTS

XII. LAMECH

XIII. METHUSELAH

XIV. NOAH

XV. HEATHEN LEGENDS OF THE DELUGE

XVI. THE PLANTING OF THE VINE

XVII. THE SONS OF NOAH

XVIII. RELICS OF THE ARK

XIX. CERTAIN DESCENDANTS OF HAM

XX. SERUG

XXI. THE PROPHET EBER

XXII. THE PROPHET SALEH

XXIII. THE TOWER OF BABEL

XXIV. ABRAHAM.296

XXV. MELCHIZEDEK

XXVI. OF ISHMAEL AND THE WELL ZEMZEM

XXVII. ESAU AND JACOB

XXVIII. JOSEPH

XXIX. THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS

XXX. JOB

XXXI. JETHRO

XXXII. MOSES.453

XXXIII. JOSHUA

XXXIV. THE JUDGES

XXXV. SAMUEL

XXXVI. SAUL

XXXVII. DAVID

XXXVIII. SOLOMON.658

XXXIX. ELIJAH

XL. ISAIAH

XLI. JEREMIAH

XLII. EZEKIEL

XLIII. EZRA

XLIV. ZECHARIAH

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In the beginning, before the creation of heaven and earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.

But happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God. Some of the angels by an act of free will obeyed the will of God, and in such obedience found perfect happiness; other angels by an act of free will rebelled against the will of God, and in such disobedience found misery.

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God then made the animals subject to death, but the men He made were immortal. But the new created men became disobedient, as had the first creatures; and the frog complained to Him of His injustice in having made the harmless animals subject to death, but guilty man deathless. “Thou art right,” answered Til, and He cast on the men He had made, old age, sickness, and death.73

The Fantis relate that they are not in the same condition as that in which they were made, for their first parents had been placed in a lofty and more suitable country, but God drave them into an inferior habitation, that they might learn humility. On the Gold Coast the reason of the Fall is said to have been that the first men were offered the choice of gold or of wisdom, and they chose the former.74

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