...glorious plan of redemption through the promised Messiah — that redemption which was faintly foretold in the promise, that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. In the bitter grief and agony which the giving up of his own son occasioned, the astonishing goodness...

...victims began to be shed immediately after the fall — that this mode of worship was as ancient as the promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. Its divine origin is not less evident than its antiquity. We read, indeed, of the practice, before...

...and of life ; and in the slaying of that dragon by the great demigod Hercules, we find something like the promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. These traditions, and such as these — tinged, of course, by the varying opinions and descriptions...

...fall of our first parents, they had still a just knowledge of God and of his will, connected with his promise, that, the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. But when Cain was compelled to flee from his father's house, unwilling to relate to his children the story...

...indeed to any mere mortal, however distinguished. Themis, or divine justice, declares the original promise, " that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent." Qrjkvairopos refers us to Gen. iii. 15. It may be observed, that from this part Horace has composed...

...a single life without great danger of sin, they esteemed it a counteracting of the divine counsels in the promise, that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. On this account it was that Jephthah's daughter deplored her virginity, because she thus deprived her...

...the book of Nature and of the book of Inspiration. When the curse fell on man, it was mitigated by the promise, that " The seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent;" when the earth was forbidden to yield him food, except as the fruit of painful toil, that very toil...

...existing human race, the opportunity of a recovery, by forming them into a Church under the prophetic promise, that The Seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent: and, into this Church, were duly and successively brought the two brothers Cain and Abel with their...

...promulgation of the will of God, after the fall, dealt with man as a sinful being ; and the original promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent, was but the earliest intimation of a plan for tbe satisfaction of the holiness and justice of Gt"i....

...satisfactory. We have already stated that it is more than probable that, immediately at the giving of the promise that " the seed of the woman should bruise the head of th<> serpent," sacrifices were instituted to represent, by their death, the sufferings and death of...