Handbook for Bible Students

Genesis

Key-word, “Beginning;” Key-verse,1:1.-This is the book of the beginnings. No beginning is ascribed to God, but all else had a beginning; and here, in direct statement or in illustration, suggestion, and type, all things, material or moral, are traced to their origin. Every great leading fact and truth, relation, and revelation is here found, the germs of all that is afterward more fully developed. [p. 1] HBS 36.2