Part 16 of 31 from "Christ our Righteousness".
By Carl Oluf Rosenius.
(1816-1868)
Translated from ekris.net
“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” (Genesis 3:8)
One wonders, why he comes now? What business does he have in the garden on the day of Fall?
He judges the sin, that is true. He doesn’t excuse it. But in spite of that – he has thoughts of peace which he would like to share with his terror-stricken children. It’s a message of salvation which must be preached. That is the most important reason for his coming.
When it comes to the punishment, then he explains more specified what he has said before. But his most important business is to preach something new and unknown to them – something they do not know or have heard before.
He begins to talk about the offspring of the woman, who will crush the serpent’s head. He wants to tell them, what will remedy and re-establish that which were ruined by the cunning of the serpent and the fall of man.
Therefore he came, the merciful Father, when the sun was setting in the west. It was more than his heart could bear, that his fallen children should be left overnight. Be left in their hiding place behind the trees, fear God’s anger and the death they must die, - without a single ray of hope.
They had to be sought out, trembling and ashamed as they were, even though it was still broad daylight. He who later told us, never to let the sun go down while we are still angry, gives us, here, the first example and the first hope!
Translation Gert Gravgaard
