...first parents, in the consequences of whose fall all the posterity of Adam are involved, "that the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent ; and the declaration unto Abraham, b " In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed," had a...

...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...

...Old and the New Testament. The first prophecy which was given forth in the garden of Eden, that " the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent," and the predictions of the Jewish prophets respecting the appearance, the miracles, the sufferings, the...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 respective...

...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...

...after our first parents had violated the Divine commandment, Jehovah graciously promised that " the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent;" and thus directed their faith and hope to our Redeemer, who in a peculiar sense was the seed of the woman,...