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It was a complete destruction of all living things in that locality;
and Lot "_dwell in a cave_, he and his two daughters."
And the daughters were convinced that they were the
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last of the human race left alive on the face of the earth,
notwithstanding the fact that the Lord had promised (chap. iii, verse
21), "I will not overthrow this city," Zoar; but Zoar evidently _was_
overthrown. And the daughters, rather than see the human race perish,
committed incest with their father, and became the mothers of two
great and extensive tribes or races of men, the Moabites and the
Ammonites.
This, also, looks very much as if they were indeed repeopling an
empty and desolated world..
To recapitulate, we have here, in due chronological order:
1. The creation of the heavens and the earth, and all the host of
them.
2. The creation of the plants, animals, and man.
3. The fair and lovely age of the Pliocene, the summer-land, when the
people went naked, or clothed themselves in the leaves of trees; it
was the fertile land where Nature provided abundantly everything for
her children.
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