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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 26.

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A Query.

By T. M. STEWARD

I NOTICED a comment in No. 19, present volume of Review, on Genesis iii, 8, by Patrick. I don't understand the text, if his comment is correct. Let me suggest my view of it. “And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” Now I have understood it like this: And they heard the voice of the Lord God, as they were walking in the garden in the cool of the day; not Lord walking, nor voice walking, but Adam and Eve walking. How is this? Am I right or not?
T. M. STEWARD.
ANSWER. We have always understood the walking to apply to God. All the commentaries we have at hand so construe it. Of the construction of the Hebrew we cannot speak; but the Greek of the Septuagint has the participle, walking, in the genitive singular, agreeing with God, not in the nominative plural agreeing with Adam and Eve.—ED.