LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[GUSTAVE DORE]
[THE CREATION OF EVE]
[THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN]
[THE MURDER OF ABEL]
[THE DELUGE]
[NOAH CURSING HAM]
[THE TOWER OF BABEL]
[ABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS]
[THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM]
[THE EXPULSION OF HAGAR]
[HAGAR IN THE WILDERESS]
[THE TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM]
[THE BURIAL OF SARAH]
[ELIEZER AND REBEKAH]
[ISAAC BLESSING JACOB]
[JACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS]
[JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT]
[JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM]
[JOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN]
[MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES]
[THE WAR AGAINST GIBEON]
[SISERA SLAIN BY JAEL]
[DEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH]
[JEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER]
[JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS]
[SAMSON SLAYING THE LION]
[SAMSON AND DELILAH]
[THE DEATH OF SAMSON]
[NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW]
[RUTH AND BOAZ]
[THE RETURN OF THE ARK]
[SAUL AND DAVID]
[DAVID SPARING SAUL]
[DEATH OF SAUL]
[THE DEATH OF ABSALOM]
[DAVID MOURNING OVER ABSALOM]
[SOLOMON]
[THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON]
[THE CEDARS DESTINED FOR THE TEMPLE]
[THE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION]
[ELIJAH DESTROYING THE MESSENGERS OF AHAZIAH]
[ELIJAH'S ASCENT IN A CHARIOT OF FIRE]
[DEATH OF JEZEBEL]
[ESTHER CONFOUNDING HAMAN]
[ISAIAH]
[DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S HOST]
[BARUCH]
[EZEKIEL PROPHESYIN]G
[THE VISION OF EZEKIEL]
[DANIEL]
[THE FIERY FURNACE]
[BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST]
[DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN]
[THE PROPHET AMOS]
[JONAH CALLING NINEVEH TO REPENTANCE]
[DANIEL CONFOUNDING THE PRIESTS OF BEL]
[HELIODORUS PUNISHED IN THE TEMPLE]
[THE NATIVITY]
[THE STAR IN THE EAST]
[THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT]
[THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS]
[JESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS]
[JESUS HEALING THE SICK]
[SERMON ON THE MOUNT]
[CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST]
[THE DUMB MAN POSSESSED]
[CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUE]
[THE DISCIPLES PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH]
[JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER]
[CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM]
[JESUS AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY]
[THE WIDOW'S MITE]
[RAISING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS]
[THE GOOD SAMARITAN]
[ARRIVAL OF THE SAMARITAN AT THE INN]
[THE PRODIGAL SON]
[LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN]
[THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN]
[JESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA]
[JESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY]
[THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS]
[MARY MAGDALENE]
[THE LAST SUPPER]
[THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN]
[PRAYER OF JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES]
[THE BETRAYAL]
[CHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS]
[THE FLAGELLATION]
[THE CRUCIFIXION]
[CLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION]
[THE BURIAL OF JESUS]
[THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHER]
[THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS]
[THE ASCENSION]
[THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN]
[SAUL'S CONVERSION]
[THE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER]
[PAUL AT EPHESUS]
[PAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS]
[PAUL'S SHIPWRECK]
[DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE]

THE CREATION OF EVE.

[ENLARGE TO FULL SIZE]

"And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helpmeet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh." Genesis ii, 18, 21-24.

In these few words the Scriptures narrate the creation of the first mother of our race. In "Paradise Lost," the poetic genius of Milton, going more into detail, describes how Eve awoke to consciousness, and found herself reposing under a shade of flowers, much wondering what she was and whence she came. Wandering by the margin of a small lake, she sees her own form mirrored in the clear waters, at which she wonders more. But a voice is heard, leading her to him for whom she was made, who lies sleeping under a grateful shade. It is at this point the artist comes to interpret the poet's dream. Amid the varied and luxurious foliage of Eden, in the vague light of the early dawn, Eve is presented, coy and graceful, gazing on her sleeping Lord, while in the background is faintly outlined the mystic form of Him in whose image they were created.