Diminution of Stature

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1869

Diminution of Stature.

THE book of Esdras represents the angel as speaking to him thus: “Consider thou therefore also, how that ye are less of stature than those that were before you. And so are they that come after you, less than ye, as the creatures which now begin to be old, and have passed over the strength of youth.” 2 Esd. v, 54, 55.

This is a striking testimony to the physical degeneracy of the race, which had manifested itself plainly, even in the time of Esdras, about 500 years before Christ.