Fires and candles, the luminaries of this lower world, because they waste, and go out, have a power to light more; but it is not so with the lights of heaven: stars do not kindle stars. 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. Noah was undoubtedly; but it is not always, nor here, the aim to draw attention to what was special. There is no statement, from beginning to end of scripture, as far as I am aware, which in the smallest degree modifies or takes away from the force of the words with which the Bible opens "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.". Other seeds surround themselves with a luscious tasting juice and all, and a little bit of meaty stuff, and so you eat, or the bear eats the berries, then later on he propagates the seeds in other areas.The way that seeds are designed to propagate themselves are fascinating indeed. - Ziegler.). God said, "Let us make man." The soul is first, in Gods image. The whole person is in Gods image. 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. I have no doubt that, besides this, Enoch is the type of the portion of those who look to be with the Lord above, just as Noah shows us (as is too well known to call for a delay upon it) those who pass through the judicial dealings of God, and nevertheless are preserved. (85). But these remarks are merely thrown out to show that there seems to be no insuperable difficulty in the way of arriving at a satisfactory solution of this vexed question. However, we should not use it as a formal proof of the Trinity since this reference by itself does not prove that one God exists in three persons. And God here too beautifully marks His feeling. #1 "Then God said,". God designed hereby to put an honour upon man, that he might find himself the more strongly obliged to bring honour to his Maker. You say, "oh, they remember the way they flew out. The last and greatest victory of all is over the wild animals, which are included under the class of creepers that are prone in their posture, and move in a creeping attitude over the land. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the imag. In short Enoch is the witness of the heavenly family, as Noah is of the earthly people of God. Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . There was the whole matter. the formation of him; not because of any difficulty attending it, The seventh day was to be the day that we acknowledge God and give unto God, and we do it by resting. 119. In the very order of the creation the paternal solicitude of God for man is conspicuous, because he furnished the world with all things needful, and even with an immense profusion of wealth, before he formed man. That he made this image to consist in righteousness and true holiness, is by the figure synecdochee; (88) for though this is the chief part, it is not the whole of Gods image. On the contrary, supposing there was but one writer of the book of Genesis, as I am persuaded is the truth of the case, it would not have borne the stamp of a divine communication if he had used either the name of Jehovah-Elohim in 1-2: 3, or the name of "Elohim" only in Genesis 2:4-25. Thus in Genesis 6:1-22 it is said that "the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." (91) Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae. Oleaster in Poli Synopsi. And day unto day they utter their speech; night unto night their voice goeth forth. And let them have dominion Hence we see that the dominion was not the image. I don't intend to get into them. (Genesis 2:1-3). f Vet. Matthew Henry Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:24-27. , from , lit., a shadow, hence sketch, outline, differs no more from , likeness, portrait, copy, than the German words Umriss or Abriss (outline or sketch) from Bild or Abbild (likeness, copy). THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. It would fit with the Hebrew word "meor". Both fallen, they were both ashamed. Christians, therefore, properly contend, from this testimony, that there exists a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (89) In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order. But I have the capacity to love.So man was made in the image of God and in the likeness of 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. It is the language of One who has special relationships with Noah and with his family. In his place and authority: Let us make man in our image, and let him have dominion. It is said that the name of the first river is the Pison, and of the other the Gihon. The recognizable part of Christ will be the prints of the nails in His hands and the print of the sword in His side. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 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 . Christ only is the express image of God's person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. (Note: "The breath of God became the soul of man; the soul of man therefore is nothing but the breath of God. * If the book were in each of these different subjects written according to that most perfect keeping which pervades scripture, and which only God is capable of producing by His chosen instruments, I am convinced that, as Elohim simply in Genesis 2:1-25, so "Jehovah-Elohim" in Genesis 1:1-31, would have been wholly out of place with their respective positions in 1 and 2. *, *It is deplorable but wholesome to see how superstition and rationalism agree in the grossest ignorance of man's condition before the fall and through it. And in the manner in which creation is here presented what unspeakable grandeur! The beautiful type of creation belonging to Christ is thus admirably preserved. You've got same, basically the same features, and yet we don't look alike at all! The moment God spoke, you have the Word of God. Then what confirmation of one's faith! In short, if the word had not been here, it might have been supposed that the writer meant us to conclude that the original condition of the earth was the shapeless mass of confusion which verse 2 describes with such terse and graphic brevity. 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. . It is the same inspired historian who presents the subject in more than one point of view, but always consistently, and with a divine purpose which governs all. Alas! And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. 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. This consists rather in the fact, that the man endowed with free self-conscious personality possesses, in his spiritual as well as corporeal nature, a creaturely copy of the holiness and blessedness of the divine life. And you just look around, God'll speak to you through the grass, through the vegetables, through the flowers, through the trees. He had an habitual conformity of all his natural powers to the whole will of God. The creation of man and his installation as ruler on the earth brought the creation of all earthly beings to a close (Genesis 1:31). *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. We can easily see the propriety of this. God is pleased when people study his creation and learn its wonders (Psalms 111:2). If its language were that of modern science, people in former ages would not have understood it, and people in future ages would find it out of date. 64. fol. Simpler forms of life then began to appear. Now comes the first mention of evening and morning, and of days. last, and beside me there is no God: and three jods (yyy) testify concerning him, that This is the prime key to the works of every ancient author, if we can only discover it. [Note: Mathews, p. 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. As if, in truth, that barbarous style of speaking, which has grown into use within a few past centuries, had, even then, prevailed in the world. "Where is Abel thy brother?" Another notion still more general, and only less gross, though certainly not so serious in what it involves, is that God created matter in the beginning according to verse 2, in a state of confusion or "chaos," as men say. Genesis 2:1-3; Genesis 2:1-3, taking the Sabbath as the necessary complement of the week, and therefore going on with the preceding six days, not with what follows. Its basic design is to divide the creation story into two groups of three days each. Answer (1 of 4): > 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. The thing indeed is true; but I do not think that anything of the kind entered the mind of Moses. "The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah-Elohim had made.". Ada tiga ceritera, tetapi ceritera-ceritera itu ada yang sejalan dalam riwayat Abraham. There was a trial of man in Eden, and he fell immediately: after that there was none whatever in the antediluvian world. All right, if He then doesn't leave me alone, He's not respecting my choice. First, It exhibits the consistency of the whole narrative in itself. In the second place, a literal interpretation would leave us with all sorts of bizarre questions. We'll know no weakness, no pain, no suffering. So far is the book of Genesis, therefore, from indicating a mere clumsy compiler, who strung together documents which had neither cohesion nor distinctive propriety, instead of there being merely two or three sets of traditions edited by another party, there is really the perfect statement of the truth of God, the expression of one mind, as is found in no writings outside the Bible. Cain looked at Him in the place merely of a Creator, and there was his wrong. I can choose what I want. 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. The true key to this account is supplied in the Epistle of Jude. 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. 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. 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. Chapter 12:1-14:24 The call of Abram and his visible life of faith. It is not man placed in his moral relationships, but man the head of this kingdom of creation, as they say; but still even so with remarkable dignity. As we saw God Himself the Creator and the moral Governor, so further we find the enemy of God and of man in exact accordance with the latest word that God speaks. This is important as an additional proof that Gods likeness and image belong to the whole species man, and could not therefore have been lost by the fall, as St. Augustine supposed. Genesis 1:26 It is not too much to say that redemption, with all its graces and all its glories, finds its explanation and its reason in creation. . This, it is observable, is kept up strikingly here, for Adam has these creatures brought before him by Jehovah- Elohim, and gives names to them all, showing clearly not alone his title as lord, but the power of appropriate language imparted by God from the first. the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, But there is more than this, though this be of exceeding interest; because we see with equal certainty and clearness why Jehovah-Elohim is introduced not before but here, and why man's becoming a living soul by the inbreathing of God was said here and not in the first chapter. God formed Eve from Adams rib, not from half of his body or from his genitals. In his purity and rectitude. We might with interest pass through the account of the various days, and mark the wisdom of God in each; but I forbear to dwell on such details now, saying a word here and there on the goodness of God apparent throughout. To God's appeal he answers with no less hardness and audacity than falsehood, "I know not." 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. Genesis 1:26 Context. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin. And, according to him, spiritual regeneration is nothing else than the restoration of the same image. We don't know. The introductory declarations of Genesis are altogether in unison with the glory of God Himself, and with His character; more than that, they are in perfect harmony with itself. And then with the coming of winter, they don't want to spend winter in Alaska -- and who can blame them. You will, of course, recognize how important that is. ., p. 112; Wenham, pp. Would there not have been a sin-offering on these occasions had the law been then in force? Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.". And of course a little coconut tree would come up and then he would begin to propagate across the South Pacific islands.Fruit bearing seeds, vegetable-bearing seeds, grass bearing seeds, after their kind. God's image upon man consists in these three things:-- 1. preceding clause, and includes male and female, as we find by the They give you notions ideas; they can furnish nothing better, and very often nothing worse. "Replenish the earth " This does not envision a re-population of the earth, but the spread of mankind throughout all the world. 80.]. . 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. 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. 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. The creation of man does not take place through a word addressed by God to the earth, but as the result of the divine decree, "We will make man in Our image, after our likeness," which proclaims at the very outset the distinction and pre-eminence of man above all the other creatures of the earth. Genesis 1:26. And the months were originally lunar months, the time it takes the moon to go through its full cycle, as it orbits around the Earth. Tela ignea, vol. He has said enough; but any one who will take the trouble to refer to Jude in connection with this chapter will gather more than appears on the surface. They went in male and female. the likeness of the holy blessed God, and his Shechinah "And they (, a generic term for men) shall have dominion over the fish," etc. God is here styled Jehovah-Elohim; and so uniformly to the end of the chapter. To this account is supplied in the likeness of God and in the likeness of God 's person as... 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