building up the picture from scratch. You too may wonder where it is all leading, but it is an essential part of the process which should lead to the ultimate, ‘Now I understand ….’ However, something more than what we might call a natural development of revelation is required to account for the differences between what is stated in Genesis 2 and what we read in Exodus 20. It is not just that God is saying something further now which he could, had he wished, have said in the first place. In fact,