Generation imagery uses lineage, age-to-age language, genealogies, or “all generations” formulas to picture covenant continuity, memory, mortality, inheritance, or redemptive history.
Generation imagery uses lineage, age-to-age language, genealogies, or “all generations” formulas to picture covenant continuity, memory, mortality, inheritance, or redemptive history.
A lineage-and-continuity motif in which generations, genealogical records, fathers and children, age-to-age praise, or covenant succession signify remembered works of God, inherited responsibility, mortality, promise, or the historical unfolding of redemption.
These examples show how Generations, Age, and Genealogical Continuity Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
This is the book of the generations of Adam
Genealogical record frames human history from Adam under creation and mortality.
These are the generations of Noah
Generation language introduces Noah’s covenant-significant history.
for an everlasting covenant... in their generations
The promise is carried through covenant generations.
this is my memorial unto all generations
The LORD’s name is given as a generational memorial.
shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD
Generational teaching preserves the memory of God’s works.
thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations
God’s faithfulness is set against the passing of human generations.
his truth endureth to all generations
Generation language pictures enduring covenant faithfulness.
all the generations from Abraham to David...
The genealogy orders redemptive history toward Christ.
David... served his own generation by the will of God
A generation becomes the providential sphere of faithful service.
throughout all ages, world without end
Age-to-age language expands praise beyond one generation.
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