With Our Inquirers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 21.

With Our Inquirers

By Editor

“If ye will inquire, inquire ye.”

[All questions to this department will be answered which to the editors will seem to minister to the good of the readers and to the mission of the paper. The same question can not be answered repeatedly in the same volume. The name and address must accompany question, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith, and that answer may be made by letter if deemed advisable. It is well always to enclose a stamp for reply.]

2505.—The Seed of the Woman.

(1) What is the antecedent of the pronoun “his” in Gen. 3:15? (2) What is the “enmity,” same verse? (3) What is the significance of the one’s “head” and the other’s “heel” being bruised?

1. The antecedent of the pronoun “his” is the “Seed” of the woman, the one great subject of God’s word from that time forward, the one great thing about which all the other great truths of the Bible revolve, until that Seed shall come, whose is the right of the inheritance, and to whom God will give it. That Seed preeminently is Christ, and thru Christ all those who are His.

2. When man sinned, he utterly yielded to Satan. God in His great mercy put a desire for righteousness into the heart of humanity, and that desire for righteousness is also a hatred of the tyranny and the slavery which sin brings. It is that in the human heart and conscience to which the Spirit of God appeals, and which is found in every heart unless that heart is wholly depraved.

3. Sufficiently wounding the head results in fatality; the heel simply that of injury. Satan would be able to bruise the heel of the Seed by persecution, by crippling God’s work in every way possible. Such has been the case thru all the ages. But the bruising of the head will be the utter and absolute destruction of Satan and all who are identified with him.