Erroneous standpoint
The translators of this record of scientific creation
entertained a false sense of being. They believed in
the existence of matter, its propagation and
power. From that standpoint of error, they
could not apprehend the nature and operation of Spirit.
Hence the seeming contradiction in that Scripture, which
is so glorious in its spiritual signification. Truth has
but one reply to all error, - to sin, sickness, and death:
"Dust [nothingness] thou art, and unto dust [nothingness]
shalt thou return."
