together, let not man put asunder.”  And when, upon this, the Pharisees ask, “Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?” Deut. 24:1, he answers in such a way as to recognize both the authority of the Mosaic legislation and the validity of the ante-Mosaic record:  “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives:  but from the beginning it was not so.”  He then proceeds to enforce the marriage covenant as it was “from the beginning.”  Matt. 19:3-9, compared with Gen. 2:23, 24.  In like manner the apostle Paul establishes the headship of the man over the woman:  “He is the image and glory of God:  but the woman is the glory of the man.  For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.  Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.” 1 Cor. 11:7-9, compared with Gen. 2:18-22.  And again:  “I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.  For Adam was first formed, then Eve.  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” 1 Tim. 2:12-14, compared with Gen. 2:18-22; 3:l-6, 13.  So also he argues from the primitive record that, as by one man sin and death came upon the whole human race, so by Christ Jesus life and immortality are procured for all.  Rom. 5:12-21; 1 Cor. 15:21, 22, compared with Gen. 2:17; 3:19, 22.  The story of Cain and Abel, Gen. 4:3-12, is repeatedly referred to by the Saviour and his apostles as a historic truth:  Matt. 23:35; Luke 11:51; Heb. 11:4; 12:24; 1 John 3:12; Jude 11.  So also the narrative of the deluge:  Gen. chs. 6-8, compared with Matt. 14:37-39; Luke 17:26, 27; Heb. 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5; and of the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. ch. 19, compared with Luke 17:28, 29; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 7.  It is useless to adduce further quotations.  No man can read the New Testament without the profound conviction that the authenticity and credibility of the Pentateuch are attested in every conceivable way by the Saviour and his apostles.  To reject the authority of the former is to deny that of the latter also.

2.  For the authenticity and credibility of the Pentateuch we have an independent argument in the fact that it lay at the foundation of the whole Jewish polity, civil, religious, and social.  From the time of Moses and onward, the Israelitish nation unanimously acknowledged its divine authority, even when, through the force of sinful passion, they disobeyed its commands.  The whole life of the people was moulded and shaped by its institutions; so that they became, in a good sense, a peculiar people, with “laws diverse from all people.”  They alone, of all the nations of the earth, held the doctrine of God’s unity and personality, in opposition to all forms of polytheism and pantheism; and thus they alone were prepared to receive and propagate the peculiar doctrines of Christianity.  Chap. 8, No. 2.  If now we admit the truth of the Mosaic record, all this becomes