death. And even then the flesh of the animal was not given for the food of man. That was done only after the Deluge (Gen. 9:2 et seq.), for in God’s original ordinance about man’s food there is merely mention of articles from the vegetable kingdom (Gen. 1:29). Practically, then, at least from the point of view of the biblical narrative, it is the case that only after the Fall is there any mention of death in the animal world. It is more difficult to explain how in fossil remains of animals we find
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