Genesis 1:29

have given you every herb-bearing seed.

In this and the following verse are given the provisions made for the sustenance of man and the lower animals. To man is assigned every herb yielding seed, as the different kinds of cereal grains, and every fruit tree, suffering him to choose those which were adapted to his taste and nature. It will be observed that only. vegetable diet is assigned. The traditions of almost all nations point to. golden age when flesh meat was not eaten and all was harmless innocence.. suppose that if man had never fallen he never would have become an eater of flesh, and there is no divine warrant recorded for its use until after the flood (Chap. IX.), but at the same time we must remember that man was to have dominion over "the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens," etc. They were created to minister in some way to his use.