Nevertheless present consequences take their course, and in a certain sense mercy too is mingled with them, as is the case habitually, I think, in the government of God; for man as he is is just so much the less happy as he knows not what it is to labour in such a world as this. If man can discover such facts by other means, be it so. And may I not put it to the conscience of every soul whether such an event is not exactly where it should be, according to the internal and distinctive features ofGenesis 1:1-31; Genesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25? And if natural science cannot boast that in any one of its many branches it has discovered all the phenomena connected with the animal and human organism of the existing world, how could it pretend to determine or limit the changes through which this organism may have passed in the course of thousands of years? Oneness in marriage is essential if husband and wife are to fulfill Gods purposes for humankind. Both fallen, they were both ashamed. He wants to remain totally formless in your mind.To this extent, I really don't care for pictures of Christ, because there is an attempt to define Him in a form. (s) God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, Let us make signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation. As the Bible says, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth sheweth forth his handiwork. I mean, you know, when you see them they just, they can dart in several directions, and then they can land on the ceiling and walk. Chapter 1. What does He do then? Chapter 12:1-14:24 The call of Abram and his visible life of faith. What can be more consistent? Now God is honored when I follow Him, and I love as He loves. Genesis 9:25-26; Genesis 9:25-26. No doubt the mere act could have been effected in other ways. We thus learn the compatibility of these two things, which in fact were true of man a fall from the relationship of innocence, in which he was originally set with God, and a rise in moral capacity, which, without faith, entails immense misery, but which is of the utmost value when one is brought to God by our Lord Jesus. Yes, Jehovah is in question. Those capacities of right thinking, right willing, and right acting, or of knowledge, holiness, and righteousness, in which man resembles God, qualify him for dominion, and constitute him lord of all creatures that are destitute of intellectual and moral endowments. I believe that they are what are called, or used to be called in ancient times at any rate, the Phasis and the Aras or Araxes. The preservation of the creatures which required the ark. What is the meaning of Genesis 1:1? It was addressed to the serpent. God is the fountain whence this spirit issued, hence the stream must resemble the spring which produced it. "Replenish the earth " This does not envision a re-population of the earth, but the spread of mankind throughout all the world. It is difficult to explain how they could have an evening and morning without the rotation of the earth on its axis if the sun wasn't in position from verse one, and it wasn't created until the fourth day. Genesis 2:18.). He contemplates the objects around him, marks their qualities and relations, conceives and resolves upon the end to be attained, and endeavors to make all things within his reach work together for its accomplishment. Conclusion: God desired that man would be like Him. doing them any damage: and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the He offers of the firstlings of his flock that which passed under death to Jehovah. And this we may safely say, That he by whom God made the worlds, not only the great world, but man the little world, formed the human body, at the first, according to the platform he designed for himself in the fulness of time. That is another matter, and by ho means of such consequence as many suppose. "First, Gods deliberation shows that he has decided to create man differently from any of the other creatures-in his image and likeness. See more on this in my commentary on Hebrews 2. Man alone therefore has what is commonly called an immortal soul. I just love to see the different life forms.I love to see these crazy, little tiny bugs and I don't even know what they are, or where they're going, and I wonder if they know where they're going, but they know how to fly. So that, they are for signs, for times, for seasons and so forth; and so this becomes very interesting.Now, if this is a process of "re-creation," then it would mean that on the fourth day, actually God did not create the sun and the moon on the fourth day, but He had now allowed them to be in their present, current positions in their relationship to the Earth, and he removed the shroud of fog, and all, from the Earth so that you can finally see the sun and the moon.Now, we have evening and mornings, where we don't see the sun, cloudy days, cloudy all day long. Gregory Nyssen has very properly observed that the superiority of man to all other parts of creation is seen in this, that all other creatures are represented as the effect of God's word, but man is represented as the work of God, according to plan and consideration: Let US make MAN in our IMAGE, after our LIKENESS. Such was not the usual style of monarchs in the ancient East. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Thirdly the dry land appears, and the earth bringing forth grass, and herb, and fruit-tree. They were all merged in one; and hence it is that we find that Job's friends, though guilty in the Lord's sight, yet alike with him offer burnt-offerings. The whole person is in Gods image. The fish, the fowl, are beneath the domestic cattle. These words are directed not to the earth, out of which man was made, as consulting with it, and to be assisting in the formation of man, as Moses Gerundensis, and other Jewish writers F6, which is wretchedly stupid; nor to . How the various organs of the human body function, for example, is a problem for medical science to solve, not the Bible. He had an habitual conformity of all his natural powers to the whole will of God. Man.Hebrew, Adam. The last is Philo's explanation: ( equals angels). ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness ", "In the image of God male and female created he them ", "And God blessed them, and said Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth ", Comme a la verite, sa Sapience eternelle, et Vertu reside en luy, Adam, in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings). If the Holy Spirit, as in Exodus 20:11, refers to heaven and earth made in six days, it always avoids the expression "creation." to make use of it as should seem convenient for them. According to this, God determined to give to the man about to be created in His likeness the supremacy, not only over the animal world, but over the earth itself; and this agrees with the blessing in Genesis 1:28, where the newly created man is exhorted to replenish the earth and subdue it; whereas, according to the conjecture of the Syriac, the subjugation of the earth by man would be omitted from the divine decree. The Sixth Day. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day (Gen 1:15-23). Having created the world with its many life forms, He now wants one to rule over these life forms. Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6). Through His creation, as you look at the wisdom, as you study it, as God has designed the leaves to take and turn the sunrays into energy and, and all, and the photosynthesis processes by which the sun is turned into energy to feed the tree and all. Adam did not preserve the place in which God had set him. "And Jehovah-Elohim commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day," etc. "This is the book of the generations of Adam. "And Noah," it is written in verse Genesis 8:20, "builded an altar." Thank you for joining me for the Monday Marriage Message. For God is not now first beginning to consider what form he will give to man, and with what endowments it would be fitting to adorn him, nor is he pausing as over a work of difficulty: but, just as we have before observed, that the creation of the world was distributed over six days, for our sake, to the end that our minds might the more easily be retained in the meditation of Gods works: so now, for the purpose of commending to our attention the dignity of our nature, he, in taking counsel concerning the creation of man, testifies that he is about to undertake something great and wonderful. "The tri-unity of God is found in the first verse of the Bible, "in the beginning God," the word in Hebrew is "Elohim". Had it been spoken of in the first chapter, there might have been grave exception taken whether such an account could have been inspired; but, coming in as it does, it is exactly as it ought to be. It outlines how he brought the universe through various stages till his creative activity reached its climax in Adam and Eve. Old Testament Reading: Genesis 1:26-31. The story is recorded as if someone were describing creation, not from somewhere in outer space, but from his dwelling place on earth. The thing indeed is true; but I do not think that anything of the kind entered the mind of Moses. God designed hereby to put an honour upon man, that he might find himself the more strongly obliged to bring honour to his Maker. (Colossians 3:10, and Ephesians 4:23.) But nothing softened the roused and irritated spirit of Cain. Were even the word of God silent on this subject, we could not infer less from the lights held out to us by reason and common sense. No such interval, however, could be absolutely necessary, as the Creator could as easily establish the luminous connection of the different orbs of heaven as summon into being the element of light itself. The next chapter (Genesis 3:1-24) shows us the result of the test which we have seen laid down by Jehovah-Elohim. Next to Christ Himself, and what we have by and in Him, there is nothing of greater importance than the confession of the truth, both that God created, and that His creation is in ruins. 119. This act of creation, too, like all that precede it, is shown by the divine word "good" to be in accordance with the will of God. "What hast thou done?" The first and second verses make allusion to these well-known measures of time. The earth is only a very small part of Gods creation, but the creation story in the Bible is concerned mainly with the earth and mentions other features only in relation to the earth.The Genesis account is concerned with showing that God made everything out of nothing, that he worked from the formless to the formed, from the simple to the complex. It is here explanatory of image, and seems to show that this term is to be taken in a figurative sense, to denote not a material but a spiritual conformity to God. 1. And then He said, "Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image or any likeness of God to bow down and to worship it". The chief governing characteristic of God is His self-determination, His will, His ability to choose and to determine His own destiny or His own mind. There is no one more miserable than the man who has no object before him. It is not said in Genesis 1:27 that man and woman were created together; or that the woman was created directly, and not formed out of one of the man's ribs. But here I stop for the present. This cannot be, because a plurality of qualities exists in everything, without at all leading to the application of the plural number to the individual, and because such a plurality does not warrant the expression, "let us make." But what characterises this scene is not the state in which man as such was this we had in Genesis 3:1-24 but what man did in that fallen state, and more especially what he did in presence of God and faith. Most wisely all such details awaited the unfolding of another day. God divided light and darkness, waters and dry land, the world above from the world below. Genesis 11:7; Psalms 2:3). As they stand, they are in exact harmony. The sun is merely the greater light to rule the day, and the moon the lesser light to rule the night. As to the manner in which God made man in His image, it is significant that man himself is a trinity - having mind, spirit, and body. See Wenham, pp. His condition was that of a sinner, and he looked not out of himself to God. The Anthropomorphites were too gross in seeking this resemblance in the human body; let that reverie therefore remain entombed. It may be well to glance at it just to show the importance of heeding the word of God, and all His word. On the first the darkness on the face of the earth is removed; on the fourth that on the face of the sky. There was no fear then. Then there are other seeds that put a little hook on the end of the seed, and you or an animal walks by, and that little seed hooks on to your pants and it gets a free ride or it hooks in to your socks. A man who despises him whom he is bound to honour, not to speak of the special distinction which God had shown him, must come to shame and degradation, must be not merely a servant but "a servant of servants." I make sounds by the use of the throat and the tongue and the teeth, and the roof of the mouth and so forth. There may be some significance . Ishak hanya berperan dalam riwayat Abraham, Kej 26:21; 22:24, dan dalam riwayat anak-anaknya sendiri, Kej 25:19-28; 27; 28:1-9; 35:27-29.Bab 26 ini melulu yang langsung berbicara tentang Ishak. Angels were not made male and female, for they were not to propagate their kind (Luke 20:34-36); but man was made so, that the nature might be propagated and the race continued. 145.] By reason we apprehend concrete things in perception and consciousness, and cognize abstract truth, both metaphysical and moral. Now the first three verses of chapter two belong to chapter one.Thus were the heavens of the earth were finished, and all [of] the host of them (Gen 2:1). *This moral and typical bearing is the true key to the record in Genesis 2:4-25, and truly accounts for the differences from 1 - 2: 3, which ignorance and unbelief pervert into the discrepancies of two separate and inconsistent writers. 27-28; Charles Feinberg, "The Image of God," Bibliotheca Sacra 129:515 (July-September 1972):235-246, esp. But there is no word coupling the introductory statement of verse 1 with what follows. The Text of Genesis 1:26-28. the formation of him; not because of any difficulty attending it, He took then, it is said, "of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl." There is no basis for these bizarre ideas in the text. This is of immense importance. to their unbelief if they choose to despise or resist the word of God meanwhile. Likewise when it says that God made man from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7), it does not mean that he took in his hands a ball of clay and formed it into a human shape as a baker makes a gingerbread man, but that he made man out of common chemicals. We have here the second part of the sixth day's work, the creation of man, which we are, in a special manner, concerned to take notice of, that we may know ourselves. Such is the birth of civil life in the family of Cain, where we find the discovery and advance of the delights of man; but, along with the progress of art and science, the introduction of polygamy. I can choose what I want. "Cursed be Canaan" was of deep interest, especially to an Israelite, but in truth to anyone who values the revelation of God. The Creation of the World. So designed, so constructed, that you can fly off of that page, and just the wide variety! Man will rise and live again. Here he gave them, 1. But needless to say, Jesus is coming soon. It is the special place in which he stood that was witnessed by the sacrifice thereon offered. There was no longer trial in Paradise, because man was turned out. Marvelous are His ways. It opens thus: "And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Man. According to Gen 1:26-27 humanity was created in the image of God. It is not, but rather of moral relationship. There was the whole matter. Finally, it has the singular and superlative merit of drawing the diurnal scenes of that creation to which our race owes its origin in the simple language of common life, and presenting each transcendent change as it would appear to an ordinary spectator standing on the earth. Thus a peculiarity in scripture, when understood, is pregnant with truth, having its source in God's wisdom, not in human infirmity. It would fit with the Hebrew word "meor". They give you notions ideas; they can furnish nothing better, and very often nothing worse. That's gonna worry you, isn't it?But, oh, how marvelous is our God! Man was made the same day that the beasts were, because his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and, while he is in the body, he inhabits the same earth with them. Now there is not really the very least ground for such an assumption. His thoughts were easily brought and fixed to the best subjects, and there was no vanity nor ungovernableness in them. Modern science has revealed so much about the wonders and the size of the physical universe that human beings may seem almost to be nothing. They are a waste of your time and my time. and why is thy countenance fallen? Free standard shipping with $35 orders. On the other hand, man has potential and it is unlimited in amount and variety. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.". But this is not the meaning of verses 1 and 2. . And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'. Why? Such an interpretation should be rejected for at least four reasons. In all pretended revelations it is not so. )Gods rest after the creation of the first human couple signified not that he had become tired or inactive (for he continues to care for what he has created), but that he had brought his work to its goal. God summons no foreign counsellor; hence we infer that he finds within himself something distinct; as, in truth, his eternal wisdom and power reside within him. For this, as for other reasons, it is manifest that Genesis 2:1-25 ought to begin with the verse which stands fourth in the common English Bible. God's chief emotional attribute is love, so God created us with a capacity to love. 1. ., p. 112; Wenham, pp. The heavens were in no such state of chaos: the earth was. In due time the ark rests upon Ararat, and then follows the strikingly beautiful incident of the raven and the dove, which has been often before us, and from which therefore we may pass on. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. And hence we infer what was the end for which all things were created; namely, that none of the conveniences and necessaries of life might be wanting to men. Certainly he did not well. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Both indicate personality, moral, and spiritual qualities that God and man share (i.e., self-consciousness, God-consciousness, freedom, responsibility, speech, moral discernment, etc.) Professor Davidson, On the plural form of the word Elohim. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Genesis 1:26. The wisdom of the inspired writer's silence will be evident to a spiritual mind, and the more, the more it is reflected on. It is hopeless to attempt any derivation of the name, as it must have existed before any of the verbs and nouns from which commentators attempt to give it a meaning; and the admh, or tilled ground, of which we shall soon hear so much, evidently had its name from Adam. What part of the land was submerged when the new soil emerged from the waters, how far the shock of the plutonic or volcanic forces may have been felt, whether the alteration of level extended to the whole solid crust of the earth, or only to a certain region surrounding the cradle of mankind, the record before us does not determine. It merely describes in a few graphic touches, that are strikingly true to nature, the last of those geologic changes which our globe has undergone. Undoubtedly "day" may be used, as it often is, in a figurative sense. But inGenesis 2:1-25; Genesis 2:1-25, beginning with verse 4, where we have special position and moral responsibility coming to view for the first time, the compound term which expresses the Supreme putting Himself in relation with man, and morally dealing with him here below, is first used, and with the most striking appropriateness. Ed. "The earth was without form and void." Thanks be to God, One has come who is before Him in unfailing sweet savour, so that if sin be in the background, there cannot but be also what He introduces of His own free grace. That any one is capable of meeting the character of God in an unfallen state is another matter. A mere historian, like Josephus of old a mere commentator, like Ewald now might have used either the one or the other without sensible loss to his readers through both chapters. Could He have made them otherwise consistently with His own character? The argument his accusers used was that the Bible says the earth remains still and the sun rises and sets upon it (1 Chronicles 16:30; Ecclesiastes 1:5). But the two trees, representing the two principles, which man is ever confounding or obliterating one for the other, are in the scripture as in truth wholly distinct. The end of this chapter shows that the man in whose person the principle of human government was set up could not govern himself. Next a firmament is separated in the midst of the waters to divide the waters from the waters. He ceased His creative act on the seventh day. Justly now we have him self-cursed from the face of the earth, pronounced a fugitive and vagabond. It was soon brought to issue. "Come thou into the ark," says He; "for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." 11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that . But if God had such care for us before we existed, he will by no means leave us destitute of food and of other necessaries of life, now that we are placed in the world. Christians, therefore, properly contend, from this testimony, that there exists a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. More than that: it is the conviction of all men, and men worthy to be listened to, that not more surely are they divided into three grand lines than that these three lines had a common origin. And Adam begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth"meaning that, as Adam was created in the image of God . Notwithstanding God maintained the place that belonged to the elder brother. It attributes to the second verse a prominent place and function in the arrangement of the record. The phraseology employed perfectly agrees with and confirms the analogy of revelation, that the first verse speaks of an original condition which God was pleased to bring into being; the second, of a desolation afterwards brought in; but how long the first lasted what changes may have intervened, when or by what means the ruin came to pass, is not the subject-matter of the inspired record, but open to the ways and means of human research, if indeed man has sufficient facts on which to ground a sure conclusion. He appointed man, it is true, lord of the world; but he expressly subjects the animals to him, because they having an inclination or instinct of their own, (93) seem to be less under authority from without. Unto whom? (Compare also Leviticus 6:4 with Leviticus 27:12, and for the use of to denote a norm, or sample, Exodus 25:40; Exodus 30:32, Exodus 30:37, etc.) And thus, because we are now relating God to man, we are coming into that mysterious name of God, "Jehovah", "Elohim". In the New Testament these unfoldings have the profoundest character, but everywhere they are divine; for there is no difference, whether it be the Old or the New, in the absolutely divine character of the written word. The context determines which is the correct meaning in any . JANUARY 11- DAILY READING THROUGH THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- GENESIS 24:52-26:16; MATTHEW 8:18-34; PSALM 10:1-15; PROVERBS 3:7-8 Commentary written and read by Pastor David K. MacAdam. Psalm 19:1-6 tells us the heavens contain a message from God. Hence, therefore, as closing all the previous state of things, where man was not spoken of, preparing the way for the Adamic earth, the Spirit of God is seen brooding upon the face of the waters. But into the proof of this we cannot now pause to enter. Truly there are many things in this corrupted nature which may induce contempt; but if you rightly weigh all circumstances, man is, among other creatures a certain preeminent specimen of Divine wisdom, justice, and goodness, so that he is deservedly called by the ancients , a world in miniature. But since the Lord needs no other counsellor, there can be no doubt that he consulted with himself. Man's present experience would have suggested neither; yet his heart and conscience, unless rebellious, feel how right and becoming all is in such a state of things none other so good. The insertion of the substantive verb, as has been remarked, expresses no doubt a condition past as compared with what follows, but pointedly not said to be contemporaneous with what preceded, as would have been implied in its omission; but what interval lay between, or why such a desolation ensued, is not stated. `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten What more important fact about God and man would be necessary if the covenant at Sinai were, in fact, to be a real relationship? [Note: Hamilton, p. The rest of the world exists through the word of God; man through His own peculiar breath. The word of God is before them. Departed from God, they hid themselves, and He had but to utter those solemn and searching words to Adam, "Where art thou?" And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" So it was that the serpent envenomed morally the heart of the woman first, and then of the man. Now, there are a lot of life forms that I can't even see, the waters are teeming with life forms. the creation, and much less in the more noble part of it: nor are Lyra. In the first place, we are told elsewhere that God is a spirit (John 4:24; Isaiah 31:3) and that he is ubiquitous (1 Kings 8:27). some for another; and over all the wild beasts of the earth, It is plain, had Moses merely formed a probable opinion as men do, that no one would have introduced the mention of light, apart from, and before all distinct notice of, the heavenly orbs. God after the counsel of His own will, in the triunity of the Godhead which we, in our feeble, finite minds cannot comprehend. Cain looked at Him in the place merely of a Creator, and there was his wrong. Where all was bright and good around man in innocency the scope for labour would not have its place. Now the key here is the grass and the vegetables and the trees yielding seed after their kind. 26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.". For what end? Scripture does not say more, and we must hold to scripture. 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