"Seek ye first the kingdom of the heavens and its righteousness, and all these things (which are recounted), shall be added unto you." (Matthew 6:33)

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Comparison of the kingdom of God:

1. With the human body from inmosts to outmosts; and therefore concerning that society wherein the Messiah is the Soul, and which shall form one body as one man.

2. With the kindred in the house of Abraham and Nahor.

3. With the land of Canaan and its bordering countries.

4. With the Paradise of Eden.

5. With a marriage and a feast.

[For the above comparisons, see:

(1) n. The Word Explained 596 seq.

(2) n. 567-568.

(3) n. 477 seq.

(4) n. 498 seq.,

(5) n. 586.]

Men are men only so far as they walk in the way of truth. But so far as they turn aside therefrom, they approach to the nature of a beast.

16. And God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed; or, according to Castellio, he placed him in a fruit garden ¹ which he had sown eastward in Eden. (8)

It appears from these words as if Adam had been created and born in some other place than the garden of Eden, and had afterwards been transferred thither by God. The same inference is also gathered from verse 15. But to believe that he was born in the garden itself, or born elsewhere, is not a matter of salvation.

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