Exciting days, we'll have a lot of things to share with you soon, as soon as we get all of our information packets put together. 3. 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. Yet we cannot but feel how suitable it was for innocence, in which condition God made man and woman. Consequently we have this perfect care over the maintenance of His rights and place as One that governed morally. We can see afterwards how verified the curse was, as it will be yet more. This is of immense importance. Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . Both appear to me natural and purposed. 26.Let us make man (83) Although the tense here used is the future, all must acknowledge that this is the language of one apparently deliberating. we should have had a long introduction, and a full history of his origin and his designs and his doings. and are also equally interchangeable, as we may see from a comparison of this verse with Genesis 5:1 and Genesis 5:3. What dispensation or age was there here? Psalm 147:4 and Isaiah 40:26 tell us God has the stars all numbered and God has a name for them all. co-workers with God in creation F7: and man being the principal 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 11:1-32 opens with the sin of man, which led to the division described in the preceding chapter, the moral reason of that fact, new then, but still in its substance going on, whatever the superficial changes among men in their lands, and tongues, and political distribution. 145.] Ed. Here it would not have served His purpose to say, "Jehovah remembered every living thing," because every living thing was not in moral relationship with God. Into that great name we are, with good reason, baptized, for to that great name we owe our being. 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. The highest, the holiest, the only suitable way, once it is laid before us, evidently is what God Himself has employed in His word. This chapter is also to be read with wonder and adoration by man; as he finds himself to be constituted lord of the earth, next in rank under the Creator of all, formed in the image of his Maker, and therefore capable not only of studying the works of nature, but of contemplating and reverently communing with the Author of nature. He makes every snowflake different. And they come and fly right into Hawaii, sometimes they get into severe storms, one-hundred, two-hundred mile an hour winds that blow them off course, but somehow they find their way right in. All is consistent in revelation, and nowhere else. 50:50. Even for Adam, innocent as he was, life did not depend on abstinence from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He was upright, Ecclesiastes 7:29. Thus we see how the simple truth is after all the deepest wisdom. God forbid that by indulging the body, and the desires of it, we . Six years they may go into slavery, the seventh year they are set free. Isaiah 40:26 tells us that God made the stars and calls them by name. Cain looked at Him in the place merely of a Creator, and there was his wrong. He presents very interesting arguments. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 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. What does He do then? There is nothing which more maddens man than mortified religious pride; and so it is here proved, for he rose up against his brother and slew him. Cosmic order consists of clearly demarcating the various elements of the universe. Thus a peculiarity in scripture, when understood, is pregnant with truth, having its source in God's wisdom, not in human infirmity. Consequently a moral test such as the wise and prudent would introduce here, and count a worthier reason why there should be so vast a ruin for the world ensuing, is out of the question. Some think they have some kind of device that tunes on the magnetic field of the earth. . "And they (, a generic term for men) shall have dominion over the fish," etc. Jehovah, meaning "the becoming one" as God relates to man and man's needs, and He becomes to man whatever man may need.Now it has caused some of the critics of the Bible to see Genesis not as the work of one Author, but the work of many authors. Psalms 8:5. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." And these stupid, foolish, nonsensical arguments which are of no value and of no profit to anybody.That's why I didn't even get into them. The world, the universe has been created. Being created after the image of God, God created me with a capacity to choose. From this it follows, that, according to the creative will of God, men were not to slaughter animals for food, nor were animals to prey upon one another; consequently, that the fact which now prevails universally in nature and the order of the world, the violent and often painful destruction of life, is not a primary law of nature, nor a divine institution founded in the creation itself, but entered the world along with death at the fall of man, and became a necessity of nature through the curse of sin. Then we enter on the theatre and times of dispensations. 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. There was no fear then. We also know that it was customary with the Hebrews to repeat the same thing in different words. Being the truth, whatever man discovers that is true will never clash with it. There is something striking in the introduction of the expression "and over all the earth," after the different races of animals have been mentioned, especially as the list of races appears to be proceeded with afterwards. By power we act, either in giving expression to our concepts in words, or effect to our determinations in deeds. Those who made the Pison to be the Ganges regarded the Gihon as the Nile. The wisdom of the inspired writer's silence will be evident to a spiritual mind, and the more, the more it is reflected on. See Notes 2 and 5, at page 75. "In the beginning God created." With us saying and doing are two things; but they are not so with God. That man was made male and female, and blessed with the blessing of fruitfulness and increase. "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. It is of great interest and importance to observe that God distinguished from the first between responsibility on the one hand, and life-giving on the other, in the two trees (verse 9). II. him), ( Proverbs In the previous description, which had not to do with man, there was silence about the Spirit of God; but, as the divine wisdom is shown inProverbs 8:1-36; Proverbs 8:1-36 to rejoice in the habitable parts of the earth, so the Spirit of God is always brought before us as the immediate agent in the Deity whenever man is to be introduced. I don't intend to get into them. And Elohim, it is said, "shall enlarge Japhet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem." It is God providing not for the perpetuation of the creature merely, but with marked completeness for sacrifice. Vegetable life was before, animal life now a very weighty truth, and of the greatest moment too. It is often a difficulty with souls that God should have made the moral history of the world to turn on touching that tree or eating of that fruit. things in it were made, and which being finished, he is But it is a crime against man made in the image of God, and as this abides, whether he be fallen or not, the guilt of murder is unimpeachable and evident. "Male and female" has to do in itself with the constitution of the creature, nothing whatever necessarily with moral relationship. "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 birds of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth upon the earth. They take off over the thousands of miles without suitcases, without spare gas tanks, without compasses or navigational equipment. Eden was to be the scene of the moral trial of man. preceding clause, and includes male and female, as we find by the But with that wing, it begins to spin almost like a helicopter rotor and it spins on out far enough away from the pine tree so that when it lands, it can fine a suitable place to grow up into a new pine. And so we'll just go through finding out what it says and we'll leave the puny, little intellects to their discussions and arguments that are without profit or value to us. It may be well to glance at it just to show the importance of heeding the word of God, and all His word. That he should be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, to subdue it, and have dominion over the other created beings of God.And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. On this however we need not say more than that He "drove out the man," lest he should perpetuate the condition of ruin into which he had passed. Fruitfulness and increase depend upon the blessing of God: Obed-edom had eight sons, for God blessed him,1 Chronicles 26:5. He says bloop, "you can't do that." I warn every person solemnly against a notion found in both ancient and modern times, that there was in the beginning a quantity of what may be called crude matter for God to work on. This explains why adherents of the Abraham religions express a spiritual craving for God or . "And in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. "Secondly, in Genesis 1, man, the image bearer, is the object of Gods blessing. Those who often bring up Genesis 1:26 hope we will won't be able to provide a good answer. Not a word of this again occurs in the previous chapter. Commentary on Genesis 26:1-5 (Read Genesis 26:1-5) Isaac had been trained up in a believing dependence upon the Divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; and now that there is a famine in the land, Isaac still cleaves to the covenant. Flesh and spirit, heaven and earth, must be put together in him, and he must be allied to both worlds. I am sure, not that she was exactly entitled to give the name, but that it can be proved that she gave a singularly inappropriate one. It is evident therefore that in the one case we have that which was generally necessary, in the other case that which was special and due to the relationship in which man was placed with Jehovah. Is there then any contradiction to be surmised? 26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour and a favour to him. 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. Then what confirmation of one's faith! 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. First, however, it was an insinuation infused and allowed against the true God. said Jehovah. 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. During the summer, they take off from Hawaii and they fly all the way up into Alaska where they mate. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Where is anything like it in all the known ways of God? By none whatever. It's done. But what man would have thought it, or said it, if he had not been inspired? The recognizable part of Christ will be the prints of the nails in His hands and the print of the sword in His side. Creation and redemption bear witness to His glory, instead of communicating aught of His own dignity. Never been there before, yet somehow, God has built into this little bird that kind of instinct; and that's a bird brain. But, as it is, scripture means nothing of the sort. That man was made in God's image and after his likeness, two words to express the same thing and making each other the more expressive; image and likeness denote the likest image, the nearest resemblance of any of the visible creatures. The true key to this account is supplied in the Epistle of Jude. What was the ground of God's delays in the previous time? THE COMMENTARY The use of the word "us" and "our" in verse 26 once again implies the triune nature of God. Thirdly, it seems unlikely that mans dignity above the rest of the animals (Genesis 9:5 f.; James 3:7-9) is due to his slight physiological differences from them. The principles of God's nature are immutable. "Thou madest him (man) a little lower than the angels; Thou crownest him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands" (Hebrews 2:5-7). Read reviews and buy Genesis 11:27-50:26, 1 - (New American Commentary) by Kenneth Mathews (Hardcover) at Target. There is more difficulty in deciding in what the likeness to God consisted. Gesenius on Isaiah 11:6-8). As there was a famine in the days of Abram ( Genesis 12:10 ), so there was a famine in Isaac's day. Read Genesis 1:26-31. Where, indeed, will they find that we were created after the image of the earth, or of angels? A fly, you hate them, but yet what fabulous design! There are some seeds that build a little parachute. 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. And you know, teeth, and mouth, chin, cheeks and so forth. He took then, it is said, "of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl." These are both very good. Holmes and Parsons show, however, the omission of supplied in not a few MSS., whether by the translators or by their copyists may be a question. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (not from the Old Testament, but from the New), of a person. The great point, my brethren, is to hold fast the truth. Not at all. That is another matter, and by ho means of such consequence as many suppose. This is the force of it. 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? Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. I wonder how long the pine tree could have existed before it decided, "I need to get my seeds out further" and it developed the little wing on the seed.There are other seeds that when the pod dries out they explode. For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.". And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Gen 1:24-27). Accepting the whole as an inspired writing, I maintain that the same writer must have used this distinctive way of speaking of God in Genesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25, and that the notion of there being two or three writers is merely a want of real intelligence in scripture. Now, the moon we know has no light of itself, it isn't in conflict with the scripture. "In our image, after our likeness." Man will rise and live again. No other explanation is left, therefore, than to regard it as pluralis majestatis, - an interpretation which comprehends in its deepest and most intensive form (God speaking of Himself and with Himself in the plural number, not reverentiae causa, but with reference to the fullness of the divine powers and essences which He possesses) the truth that lies at the foundation of the trinitarian view, viz., that the potencies concentrated in the absolute Divine Being are something more than powers and attributes of God; that they are hypostases, which in the further course of the revelation of God in His kingdom appeared with more and more distinctness as persons of the Divine Being. That there was only one such root is the statement of the scriptures. The seventh day was to be the day that we acknowledge God and give unto God, and we do it by resting. The copulative would render it improper, and impossible to bear the character of a general introduction. Man is to eat of "every seed-bearing herb on the face of all the earth, and every tree on which there are fruits containing seed," consequently of the productions of both field and tree, in other words, of corn and fruit; the animals are to eat of "every green herb," i.e., of vegetables or green plants, and grass. Let me particularly ask those who have not duly considered the matter to weigh God's word. The name of God, not just being "Elohim" as it is in chapter one, but more personal because we are dealing with more the creation of man, and we are being given details of the creation of man in chapter two. Let it suffice to refer to the great principle, remembering that the theatre of the ages or dispensations of God is the world since the flood. The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in 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. Ed. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our. He has, He does not respect my choice, and thus it isn't really the freedom of choice. No, it was the simple question whether God was really Jehovah-Elohim, whether He was a moral governor or not, whether man was to be independent of God or not. F8; and they also speak F9 of Adam The most vaulting pride always has the deepest fall. The spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and, like dying Jacob, he tells his sons what shall befal them, Gen. 49:1. 1. The passage should be translated, "Fill the earth and subdue it."[11]. It doesn't necessarily mean a source of light. And you see it floating through the air, its heading somewhere to propagate itself wherever the wind will let it drop and then it will burrow in and begin to grow.The coconut seed is a fascinating seed; it's conquered the South Pacific. See also Merrill, pp. It is a mistake to include the world before that event in the time of dispensations. A holy being might and does so know, i.e., a being who, while knowing, has an intrinsic nature that repels the evil and cleaves to the good. "Replenish the earth " This does not envision a re-population of the earth, but the spread of mankind throughout all the world. Undoubtedly "day" may be used, as it often is, in a figurative sense. and supply the defects of it, since the fall, lays down at first this principle of the unclouded light of nature: That this world was, in the beginning of time, created by a Being of infinite . But it is an old story in this world, though a new thing for professing members and ministers of Christ, to take pride in putting scorn on divine revelation. Not but that God wrought in His grace with individuals. Genesis 3:20; Genesis 3:20). some for another; and over all the wild beasts of the earth, The difference in the divine titles is due to a distinctness of object, not of authorship; and it runs through the Psalms and the Prophets as well as the Law, so as to convict of ignorance and temerity the learned men who vaunt so loudly of the document hypothesis as applied to the Pentateuch. He was like Adam fallen, not his representative only. "First, Gods deliberation shows that he has decided to create man differently from any of the other creatures-in his image and likeness. "Cursed be Canaan" was of deep interest, especially to an Israelite, but in truth to anyone who values the revelation of God. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And so, even the tri-unity of God is expressed in the first verse, "in the beginning God," Elohim. 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. But I often wonder why God made such weird-looking fish, in such variety, and then the fabulous colors! Having prepared the natural creation for human life, God now desired humankind to enjoy that creation with him (2:1-3; seventh day). 12:1 ) and Philo the Jew acknowledges that these words So it is here. JANUARY 5 TODAY'S READING IN THE ONE YEAR BIBLE - GENESIS 11-13:4; MATTHEW 5:1-26; PSALM 5:1-12; PROVERBS 1:24-28 Commentary written and read by Pastor David K. MacAdam. The image of God within them is what makes them human. The difficulty could never arise had they seen and remembered what is stated in the very first chapter of Genesis, and the indelible habit graven thereby on the Jew. This shows that for whatever reason the "us" in Genesis 1:26 . They give you notions ideas; they can furnish nothing better, and very often nothing worse. Cain was born, and the fallen mother gave the name: but, oh, what a mistake! Let him rule man who said, Let us make man. And then with the coming of winter, they don't want to spend winter in Alaska -- and who can blame them. As for the transfer of the site of the garden lower down in the plain of Shinar, it appears to me altogether untenable. 56. Other places in the Old Testament it is translated Gods. He had created everything that was needed at this point, and so that was the end of His creative act. Not a word of this is in the first chapter. 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. The simple statement of the facts is that which is worthy of God. In the reason is evolved the distinction of good and evil Genesis 1:4, Genesis 1:31, which is in itself the approval of the former and the disapproval of the latter. The rest of the world exists through the word of God; man through His own peculiar breath. They sprout out a little parachute on top of the seed and they just wait for the wind to come along, and the wind comes and lifts the seed. But the will of man pits itself invariably against the known will of God, and the very man who was doomed to be a fugitive sets to work that he may settle himself here below. Thus, it appears from the very beginning that God is represented as a compound unity. His affections were all regular, and he had no inordinate appetites or passions. And it's not a very big kind of a computer. There is the provision of God, not merely for the need of man, but for His own glory; and this in the smallest things as in the greatest. Genesis 1:26. Would there not have been a sin-offering on these occasions had the law been then in force? * This, not to speak of other reasons, appears conclusive against the claim of the Pison to be the Ganges! It has nothing to do with moral relationships. 98. *How this agrees with the dispensational dealings of God with Israel needs no argument. But "Elohim" is the plural tense for God. "The tri-unity of God is found in the first verse of the Bible, "in the beginning God," the word in Hebrew is "Elohim". Fifth, it is in keeping, as far as it goes, with the facts of botany, zoology, and ethnology. Again, what value would it be for God to give me the freedom of choice but then not respect the choice? God set down the goal of human life at the very beginning, when He created mankind in the Garden of Eden. God made heaven and earth in six days: it is never said He created heaven and earth in six days. "How do they reckon? This indeed is the invariable truth of scripture, and runs through it to the last. But, after all, it is the positive truth of God which it is the all-important business to hold, and this God has put in the heart of the simplest child who believes in Jesus. "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. Thus it is seen at once that, instead of these wonderful communications being merely earlier and later legends put together by a still more modern editor, who tried to make something complete by stringing together what did not aptly fit, on the contrary, it is the Spirit of God who gives us various sides of the truth, each falling under the title and style suitable to God, according to that which was in hand. This gives occasion to the manifestation of a great difference among Noah's sons, and to the solemn words which the father uttered in the spirit of prophecy. 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". For this was a new state of things, not only not at all in the world before the flood, but not for some considerable time after it, and their distribution in their lands. And God said, Let us make man in our image, and 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. So always it is. In the second place, a literal interpretation would leave us with all sorts of bizarre questions. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth. THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. And so you have the "EPJ" or the "JEP" concepts of how many authors of Genesis, and somebody's even thrown in an "I" somewhere there. God saw His work, and behold it was all very good; i.e., everything perfect in its kind, so that every creature might reach the goal appointed by the Creator, and accomplish the purpose of its existence. 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