Genesis 1:31 - Homilies By R.a. Redford

Perfection.

The first chapter closes with a review of the whole work of the six days. God saw it. Behold, it was very good!

I. The SATISFACTION was in the completion of the earthly order in man, the highest earthly being. For God's good is not, like man's good " a compromise, too often, between the really good and the really evil, but the attainment of the highest— the fulfillment of his Divine idea, the top-stone placed upon the temple with shoutings: "Grace, grace unto it."

II. "The evening and the morning were the sixth day." OUT OF THE NIGHT OF ' THE INFINITE PAST CAME FORTH THE DAWN OF THE INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLD . And when God saw that, then he said, It is very good. So let us let our faces towards that light of heaven on earth, the day of Divine revelation , Divine intercourse with man, the pure and perfect bliss of an everlasting paradise, in which God and man shall find unbroken rest and joy in one another.— R .