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“This volume is not intended to be a full exposition of the Book of Genesis. The purpose is to set forth, simply and clearly, the grace and glory of God in Christ in the opening pages of Holy Scripture.” So states Don Fortner in the Preface to this volume; and this is precisely what he does. By commenting on the principal characters to whom God revealed himself in the book of Genesis and the...

Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous (Neh. 9:7–8). Consider what those Levites said about Abraham, as they sought to worship the God of Abraham. ‘[Thou] didst choose Abram’—Abraham belonged to God by God’s choice in electing love and grace. ‘And broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees’—he was brought to believe God by God’s call, by effectual, irresistible grace. ‘And gavest him the name Abraham’—Abram, the pagan,
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