God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. She thought her first-born a great gain, for such is the meaning of the name "Cain." "And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon earth." Carmen Memorial. But they were different from all other animals and were given power over them; for they alone, of all Gods creatures, were made in Gods image (24-31; sixth day). Now comes the first mention of evening and morning, and of days. So God is a superior trinity. It was not barely as He who had created all, but the God that was in special relationship with man Jehovah. According to Gen 1:26-27 humanity was created in the image of God. Justly now we have him self-cursed from the face of the earth, pronounced a fugitive and vagabond. With us saying and doing are two things; but they are not so with God. But still it is well to take note that we have thus a grand basis of things as they really are a divine communication to us of facts of the utmost moment, and, at the same time, of the deepest interest to the children of God. In Hebrew there is a dual tense, two, and the Hebrew "Elah" is God in a dual tense. And this is what is referred to inJames 3:1-18; James 3:1-18, where he speaks of our having been made in the likeness of God. Man, being created in the image of God was created a self-determinant being. It depends for its existence upon God. Oneness in marriage is essential if husband and wife are to fulfill Gods purposes for humankind. - The relation of man to the creature is now stated. The human mind is still endowed with most extraordinary capacities; it was more so when issuing out of the hands of its Creator. As the Bible says, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth sheweth forth his handiwork. Matthew Henry Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:24-27. But I often wonder why God made such weird-looking fish, in such variety, and then the fabulous colors! There was a trial of man in Eden, and he fell immediately: after that there was none whatever in the antediluvian world. It is a real joy to know that it is coming; but until that day God always has before Him, as the theatre and material where He acts, a world ruined ruined by sinful man. When fallen he acquired the internal capacity of knowing right from wrong, apart from a law to inform or forbid; and in this respect became like God at the very time when he lost God and intercourse with Him as an innocent creature. For there was an attempering in the several parts of the soul, which corresponded with their various offices. The exposition of Chrysostom is not more correct, who refers to the dominion which was given to man in order that he might, in a certain sense, act as Gods vicegerent in the government of the world. We see why that ought to be. Does he have the form of a man, or of a woman, or both? This point will suffice to indicate their chief guilt in thus traversing the boundaries which God had appointed for His creatures. And you just look around, God'll speak to you through the grass, through the vegetables, through the flowers, through the trees. On the second the water is distributed above and below the expanse; on the fifth the living natives of these regions are called into being. For all scripture was given by inspiration of God. 119. - Genesis 1:27. The others were caused to live by the simple fact that God organized them according to His own will; but in man's case there was this essential difference, that he alone became a living soul by the inbreathing of Jehovah-Elohim. Scripture describes it, and mentions two rivers which unquestionably exist at the present day. How remarkably this has been made good in the providential history of the world I need not stay to prove, how Jehovah God connected His name with Shem, to the humiliation of Canaan, and how Elohim enlarged Japhet, who would spread himself not merely in his own destined lot, but even dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan humbled there too. And God here too beautifully marks His feeling. The elevation of an extensive tract of land, the subsidence of the overlying waters into the comparative hollows, the clarifying of the atmosphere, the creation of a fresh supply of plants and animals on the newly-formed continent, compose a series of changes which meet the geologist again and again in prosecuting his researches into the bowels of the earth. God certainly might here command by his bare word what he wished to be done: but he chose to give this tribute to the excellency of man, that he would, in a manner, enter into consultation concerning his creation. 4. The field of his dominion is "the fish of the sea, the fowl of the skies, the cattle, the whole land, and everything that creepeth on the land." Having created the world with its many life forms, He now wants one to rule over these life forms. In another sense man is the image of God (e.g., he rules and creates [procreates] as God does, thus reflecting God). The impact of this point on the remainder of the Pentateuch and the authors view of Sinai is clear: through Abraham, Israel and the covenant this blessing is to be restored to all mankind." And let them have dominion (92) Here he commemorates that part of dignity with which he decreed to honor man, namely, that he should have authority over all living creatures. 3 And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. 13. They are not said to be created then; but God made two great lights (it is no question of their mass, but of their capacity as light bearers,) for the Adamic earth the stars also. of food to man, no mention as yet is made of any other meat than They are able to go down and each little root is a chemical laboratory. )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. 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. "Cursed be Canaan" was of deep interest, especially to an Israelite, but in truth to anyone who values the revelation of God. I have no hesitation in saying that it is a mistaken interpretation, however prevalent. So let there be the "light holders" in the heavensto divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years (Gen 1:14): And so our time is calculated by the sun and the moon, and it is generally thought that the Earth's rotation around the sun was a three hundred and sixty-day year. If man had been writing it, if he had attempted to give that which pretended to be a revelation, we could understand a flourish of trumpets, pompous prolegomena, some elaborate means or other of setting forth who and what God is, an attempt by fancy to project His image out of man's mind, or by subtle priori reasoning to justify all that might follow. But it would be necessary for those seeds to propagate themselves into other areas. Into that great name we are, with good reason, baptized, for to that great name we owe our being. Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. This explanation involves what some people call, sometimes disparagingly, the "gap theory," which shows that the Bible allows for a long time interval between verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis 1. It was addressed to the serpent. He makes a religion from his own mind, and brings of the fruit of the ground now under the curse; whilst Abel by faith offers the firstlings of the flock, and of the fat thereof. (Genesis 2:1-3). Verse Genesis 1:26. "Them" indicates this generic significance. . The solution is short; Paul there alludes only to the domestic relation. This is the prime key to the works of every ancient author, if we can only discover it. The Heir of all things is the Second man, and not the bride. In the statement given by Moses every minute point beautifully exemplifies the propriety of the word of God. The scientist may speak of the sun as the centre of the solar system, with the earth a minor planet of the sun, and the moon a small satellite of the earth. Moral relationship? The real worth of God's promises cannot be lessened to a believer by any cross providences that . And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. But in Genesis 6:1-22 we have a very solemn statement the apostacy of the ancient world. The moment God spoke, you have the Word of God. But I don't have to, again I have a choice, and I can choose to hate if I want. May one not say again who beforehand would have thought of ways so truly and self-evidently divine? God's image upon man consists in these three things:-- 1. 64. fol. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. No wonder you get tired at the end of the day.And thus, I know that God can see, but it doesn't follow that God has to have eyes to see. Since the image of God had been destroyed in us by the fall, we may judge from its restoration what it originally had been. Now without wishing to press my individual judgment of such a matter, I may state the conviction that the Pison and the Gihon, here described, are two rivers on the north of the site of Eden, one running into the Black Sea, the other into the Caspian. "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." What are the ten numerations? Such was his relation to the creature; he was put in that place by God. There was to be a mind in him, a spirit capable of the knowledge of God with the absence of all evil. Further, we now hear of the garden that was planted by Jehovah-Elohim eastward in Eden, where He put the man whom He had formed. "By ruling as one, male and female fulfill the purpose of God for which they were created. But it is and will be of the deepest interest to trace these ways of God in earthly government from the first. 70. fol. It is another statement added to what had just preceded, and by the Hebrew idiom not connected with it in time. De Opificio, p. 16. (85) Ut certe aeterna ejus sapientia et virtus in ipso resident. The expression is ambiguous; but the French translation renders it, Comme a la verite, sa Sapience eternelle, et Vertu reside en luy; which translation is here followed. 64. fol. . 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. IV. Eden was to be the scene of the moral trial of man. The history supposes man thenceforward allowed to act without external law or government to control though God did not fail to work in His merciful goodness in His own sovereignty. This daring evil against God, we know from Joshua 24:1-33 was then spread far and wide, even among the Shemitic race, although never heard of in scripture, whatever man's lawlessness in other ways, before the deluge. Such views as making it like an editorial "we," or the majesterial plural, or as an inclusion of angelic hosts or other heavenly beings are totally inadequate. The primitive condition is described too. I don't, I want God to leave me alone!" Pharaoh says, "I have dreamed a dream" Genesis 41:15. can claim credit for accuracy from their inattention to this difference in the Greek version. Not that one could say positively that so it was; but certainly it is to be supposed that little time could have passed after receiving the woman, his wife. But short of Christ's person and work, there is nothing more characteristic of God than creation. Notable features include: * commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION; * the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary; * sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original . The notion that intelligible speech is a mere growth from the gradual putting together of elements is a dream of ingenious speculation, which may exercise men's wits, but has no foundation whatever. 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. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. When Genesis 1:26 reveals that God made man in God's image, that means He gave man a will, emotion, and intelligence. We see introduced, without more delay upon the scene, one too well and yet too little known, the active, audacious, most subtle adversary of God and man, the serpent from whom sin and misery result, as the Bible witnesses from the beginning to the end who is here first brought in a few quiet words before us. God divided light and darkness, waters and dry land, the world above from the world below. 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. Hi, this is Pastor Ken. them", which shows that the name "man" is general in the The narrative of it is introduced with something of solemnity, and a manifest distinction from the rest. It is God that does all, whether it be for the earth, the air, or the waters. Such is the power and simplicity of faith. As Christ came into our world without sin, his true rank therefore was that of Adam, as God had created Adam, and before the Fall. What scripture gives here or elsewhere seems to me altogether at variance with such a thought. I confess human my own ignorance; but not that there is a single instance where God has not employed the terms in all respects the best. 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. I'm made in the image of God, who is a self-determinant being.Now, if God created me with a capacity of choice, it would be totally meaningless unless He gave me a choice. * If Canaan drew his father into the shameful exposure of Noah, all can see how just the sentence was. The image of God consists, therefore, in the spiritual personality of man, though not merely in unity of self-consciousness and self-determination, or in the fact that man was created a consciously free Ego; for personality is merely the basis and form of the divine likeness, not its real essence. This sentence is not translated either in the French or Old English version. It has been gathered from the varying names of God, etc., by speculative minds that there must have been different documents joined together in this book. The primeval and prominent objects of human sway are here brought forward after the manner of Scripture. Now, the word light here is "meor". 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and while he is in the body, he inhabits the same earth with them. All right, if He then doesn't leave me alone, He's not respecting my choice. Believers can, for by faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God (Hebrews 11:3). On the first day light is. Genesis 1:26 is used by many Trinitarians to say that God is a Trinity because of the words "let us." Although this would be an acceptable way to understand God's saying if the plurality of God or the Trinity was defined anywhere else in the scriptures, God is never called three or three in one, but is always defined as one (John 5:44, 17 . The history is in Genesis 1:2-3 from verse 4 to the end ofGenesis 2:1-25; Genesis 2:1-25 is not so much a history of creation as a statement of the relations of creation, and especially of man, its centre and head. Was it with certain other intelligent beings in existence before man that he took counsel? Salem Media Group. Such is the very essence of a test for an innocent man. Here on the fifth day, now, we have the more complex life forms. We should not have known anything of paradise from the first chapter. Although we are a "little lower than the angels" it is the angels who have the job of ministering to the people who will inherit salvation. So we find what shows the folly of this yet more in what follows: "And they that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Jehovah shut him in." It is the old familiar story, man tried and found wanting as always. one that had ruined the glory of God, as far as it rested upon him. following verse man was created: and over the cattle, and over all the earth; The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. "And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded.". Had it been merely said that Elohim shut him in, it would have simply suggested the Creator's care of every creature; but Jehovah's shutting him in points to special relationship, and the interest taken in that righteous man. The rest of the world exists through the word of God; man through His own peculiar breath. We were . 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