When it is no question of these, creating, making, and forming may be freely used, as in Isaiah 45:18. the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten numerations. Hence He orders that two of every kind should be taken into the ark. God is the fountain whence this spirit issued, hence the stream must resemble the spring which produced it. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the . Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 53:3 (September 2010):601-17.]. 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. Since the image of God had been destroyed in us by the fall, we may judge from its restoration what it originally had been. However, the word for "let us make" (naaseh, ) which is plural, is translated as "let us make" () which is plural in the Greek as well. III. "And let them have dominion " This is another quality of man's kinship with the Eternal. Matthew Henry Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:24-27. The union of attributes which constitute his spiritual nature is his character or likeness. 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. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female . And those instinctive abilities in the birds!I'm always fascinated by that little bird in Hawaii that goes up into the Aleutian chain in order to mate. It is false that scripture does not leave room for his investigation. Hitherto, it had been said, "Let there be light," and "Let there be a firmament," and "Let the earth, or waters, bring forth" such a thing; but now the word of command is turned into a word of consultation, "Let us make man, for whose sake the rest of the creatures were made: this is a work we must take into our own hands." But, really, they're not following the same path, so that argument's sort of shot down, because, really, the parents decide to leave for Hawaii before the kids are able to fly that far. Tirinus. Fifth, it is in keeping, as far as it goes, with the facts of botany, zoology, and ethnology. 98. 3 And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. In the beginning God created everything the heavens and the earth. 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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.". 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. What does He do then? In this new section accordingly it is written, "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created [going up to the first], in the day* [here the writer comes down] that Jehovah-Elohim made the earth and the heavens." The rest of the world exists through the word of God; man through His own peculiar breath. 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. Today we will be continuing to make our way through Ephesians Chapter 5, verses 21 through 33. V. That God gave to man, when he had made him, a dominion over the inferior creatures, over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air. Being made in Gods image, human beings are unique in Gods creation. 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. The geometric patterns and design.And so, of all of the millions of people, there may be some who look somewhat alike, and yet, you know, when you get to know twins, you'll be able to tell them apart at sight, because there's just enough difference between everybody. That is why, when God created man and He created the garden for man to dwell in, that He put in that Garden a tree of knowledge of good and evil and said to man, "Don't eat that". "In the image of God male and female created he them " This means that woman also is made in the image of God. I'm so glad that I know Him. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And it is able to take out of the soil just the necessary chemicals to support that particular plant; able to tell the difference between the chemicals, knows just the chemicals that it needs out of the soil to feed the particular plant that it's coming from, to bring the moisture up out of the soil and all. I only speak of what is good for man out of Paradise, and how God meets with and ministers to his state in His infinite grace. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth. divine Creators and Makers in the plural number, ( Job 35:10 ) ( Psalms 149:2 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 30:1 (March 1987):67, 66. It is a mistake to include the world before that event in the time of dispensations. Man will rise and live again. But it is evident that dispensation, in the true sense of the word, there was none. Notwithstanding in the midst of the scene of desolation we hear Adam calling his wife's name "Eve" (ver. The change of designation springs from distinct truths, not from different fabulists and a sorry compiler who could not even assimilate them. Believers have constantly called it a "promise;" but it is not uninstructive to see that scripture never does. 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. fowl of the air; [Note: See James Jordan, "Rebellion, Tyranny, and Dominion in the Book of Genesis," Christianity and Civilization 3 (Summer 1983):38-80. 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. For in laying hold of the three faculties of the soul enumerated by Aristotle, the intellect, the memory, and the will, he afterwards out of one Trinity derives many. "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Was it a state for a promise? 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. Now God is honored when I follow Him, and I love as He loves. But in that trinity of His nature, He said "let us make man after our image" and thus he made man after His image, a trinity of nature. This verse states God intends for people to rule over fish, birds, and animals. The text we are studying for Sunday, September 16 is Genesis 1:26-31 + 2:4-7.This is that portion of the creation story or stories in Genesis 1 & 2 that deals with the creation of adam, which is variously translated (in the NRSV, anyway) as "humankind" (Genesis 1:26 & 27) and as "man" (Genesis 2:7).This means we're skipping over the institution of the Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3), and . But nothing softened the roused and irritated spirit of Cain. Each severally the man, the woman, the serpent stand evidently convicted by the presence of Jehovah-Elohim. This is of immense importance. Observe, in the beginning of the word of God, the sources of all things. What dispensation could there be? Yet in Genesis 1:29, God states that human beings are only permitted a plant-based diet. *How this agrees with the dispensational dealings of God with Israel needs no argument. But while this question of who was God talking to may seem impossible to answer. Science may investigate the physical world and suggest how something happened, but it cannot say who made it happen. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. , over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Many commentators opine that these words, "image" and "likeness," are essentially synonymous in Hebrewmeaning that human beings generally look like Godbut doing so limits God's creativity to the merely physical. To God's appeal he answers with no less hardness and audacity than falsehood, "I know not." 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. It is the soul which gives the unity, and which accounts for the personal identity. "So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. (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. Such a glorious God, so wise; all of these created life forms. Hence, we are forced to conclude that the plural pronoun indicates a plurality of persons or hypostases in the Divine Being. *Some have wondered why the serpent and Eve should be represented as saying Elohim ("God") in the temptation, seeing that everywhere else in the section the name employed is Jehovah-Elohim. You will, of course, recognize how important that is. 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. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. He designed a little wing on that seed. Read reviews and buy Genesis 11:27-50:26, 1 - (New American Commentary) by Kenneth Mathews (Hardcover) at Target. The soul of man, considered in its three noble faculties, understanding, will, and active power, is perhaps the brightest clearest looking-glass in nature, wherein to see God. And Jehovah speaks to him once more. There is no real courage with a bad conscience, and guile will soon be apparent where God brings His own light and makes guilt manifest. The word , which indicates that God created the man and woman as two human beings, completely overthrows the idea that man was at first androgynous (cf. [Note: Sailhamer, "Exegetical Notes . 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. God, and God alone, can communicate the truth. Those who often bring up Genesis 1:26 hope we will won't be able to provide a good answer. 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. And God rested on the seventh day from His work of creation.Now as we get into chapter two, we find a recapitulation that will emphasize the creation of man, because of this recapitulation we have now, because man is being emphasized. It is not as if it were a new thing for man to deny the immortality of his own soul. 98. Genesis 1:26-28. The sons of God chose the daughters of men. What scripture gives here or elsewhere seems to me altogether at variance with such a thought. The days that follow I see no ground for interpreting save in their simple and natural import. 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. Christ only is the express image of God's person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. The world was living in harmony with God, and thus in harmony with each other.And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. 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. But "Adam," it is said, "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image." God produces life, whether it be for the fish that people the sea, for the birds of the air, or for the beasts, cattle, or reptiles, on the dry land. You've got something over me. For when Moses afterwards repeats the same things he passes over the likeness, and contents himself with mentioning the image. 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. This does not mean simply that certain parts of human beings such as their spiritual, moral or mental capacities reflect the divine nature. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Man takes a special place in creation. He makes every snowflake different. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Could any person have conceived such wisdom beforehand? The Eternal Being is essentially self-manifesting. This you can, if you will, verify in various occasions where scripture furnishes examples of the summary; as, for instance, in the beginning of Genesis 5:1-32, "This is the book of the generations of Adam." For as we have on the sixth day the lower creation for the earth, so finally man himself the crown of all. (84) For the various opinions of Jewish writers on this subject, see Pooles Synopsis in loco. Who else could have told us how and when the earth was thus divided? Such was not the usual style of monarchs in the ancient East. Philosophy believes neither, in a vain effort to account for all by what is, or rather appears; for it knows nothing, not even the present, as it ought to know. In short Enoch is the witness of the heavenly family, as Noah is of the earthly people of God. God Himself has touched it but curtly. Hence, wherever man enters he makes his sway to be felt. Afterwards God tells Noah to come forth he and all the other creatures. 56. - Man is a new species, essentially different from all other kinds on earth. with ( Genesis Every one of them is a perfect geometrical pattern, but no two snowflakes alike. The Heir of all things is the Second man, and not the bride. By beginning the words rendered Wisdom and Power with capitals, it would appear that the second and third Persons of the Trinity were in the mind of the writer when the passage was written. God is pleased when people study his creation and learn its wonders (Psalms 111:2). Undoubtedly "day" may be used, as it often is, in a figurative sense. This then may suffice. We saw at the close of verse 2 the introduction of the Spirit of God on the scene. Genesis 11:7; Psalms 2:3). Another divine, but an infidel, regards the knowledge of good and evil as the image of God by creation. Hence, when notice is here taken of man's formation, it is described (as all else is) in a manner quite distinct from that of Genesis 1:1-31; but that distinctiveness self-evidently is because of the moral relationship which the Spirit of God is here bringing before the reader. 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. Genesis 1:24). 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. Sin needed more. But here the question is respecting that glory of God which peculiarly shines forth in human nature, where the mind, the will, and all the senses, represent the Divine order. Finally, a literal interpretation seems not only contradictory to the rest of Scripture, and unlikely, but also inappropriate, Gardener aptly observed: But our anatomy and physiology is demanded by our terrestrial habitat, and quite inappropriate to the one who inhabits eternity. For these reasons, theologians have concluded that the statement in Genesis 1:26-28 must be metaphorical of mans spiritual or immaterial nature." It appears to me beyond reasonable doubt that the other two rivers are by no means impossible to trace; and it is remarkable, as showing that the Spirit of God takes an interest, and furnishes a thread to help us in the fact, that the two less notorious rivers are described more fully than the rivers which are so commonly known. In any case it was mercy to confine the curse certainly earned by Ham within the narrowest limits, instead of extending it to all his posterity. No solid reason whatever appears why it should be so used here. If this appearance were actually the fact, it would be impossible to escape the conclusion that the text is faulty, and that has fallen out; so that the reading should be, "and over all the wild beasts of the earth," as the Syriac has it. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. It is no longer the test of creation, as God made it, and this accordingly is marked here. There was no dispensation, properly so called, before it. 2. Where all was bright and good around man in innocency the scope for labour would not have its place. ", 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). Such an interpretation should be rejected for at least four reasons. Genesis 2:18; Psalm 12:5; Isaiah 33:10). let them be for lights in the firmament in the heavens to give light upon the earth: and it was so. Caesarius and Epiphanius held it to be the Danube, the Ganges, and the Indus, and that after an extraordinary course in the south it joined the ocean near Cadiz! 1. So again the woman has her portion, of which we need not say more than to point out what a clue it is to her lot in the history of the race. God created (cf. Mankind was the only form of life created "after our likeness" and The image and likeness must necessarily be intellectual; his mind, his soul, must have been formed after the nature and perfections of his God. But what man would have thought it, or said it, if he had not been inspired? That man's creation was a more signal and immediate act of divine wisdom and power than that of the other creatures. The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in And man eat too, not deceived, but with open eyes, and therefore so much the more guilty swayed, no doubt, by his affections; bold, however, in yielding to them, for he ought rather to have been her guard and guide, certainly not to have followed her, even if he had failed to keep her safely in the path of good. Not "El", but "Elohim" created the heavens and the earth.And the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, moved over the face of the waters. "And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God* said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? For God passes rapidly over the early account and history of the globe I might almost say, hastening to that condition of the earth in which it was to be made the habitation of mankind; whereon also God was to display His moral dealings, and finally His own Son, with the fruitful consequences of that stupendous event, whether in rejection or in redemption. 1. Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . Yes, Jehovah is in question. 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. *Is it not the more captiousness of criticism to set the general phrase "the day," etc., against the precision of the six days in the previous section? So the Holy Spirit, basically, is the author of all the scripture and who He was inspiring is of no import to us.So next week, we'll continue with chapter two. (f) Vet. (Genesis 2:1-3). We did not evolve from other lower forms of life. If mans physical being is in the image of God we would immediately wonder what, if any organs, God possesses. God does not give such knowledge by direct revelation. 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. There is a day coming when the ground of God's action will be neither innocence nor sin, but righteousness. Then we find the waters caused to bring forth abundantly "the moving creature that hath life." 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. Any one who is acquainted with the chief writings of the old idolatrous world, of the Greeks and Romans especially, will see that what God has veiled in this brief statement, which passes calmly over that of which more had better not be spoken, is what they have amplified into the Titans and the giants and their greater deities. Man was formed especially from the ground and given the breath of life from God. (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 God saw that it was good. This is brought before us here. "Likeness" is a more general term, indicating resemblance in any quality, external or internal. What is important for us to know is what did God say. Adam on the very first day of his life, even before Eve was formed, gave the animals their names, and God Himself sanctioned what their head uttered. I make sounds by the use of the throat and the tongue and the teeth, and the roof of the mouth and so forth. But this divine statement, in connection with man's moral relationship with God, here calmly and clearly stated, is the true key. Ed.
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When it is no question of these, creating, making, and forming may be freely used, as in Isaiah 45:18. the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten numerations. Hence He orders that two of every kind should be taken into the ark. God is the fountain whence this spirit issued, hence the stream must resemble the spring which produced it. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the . Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 53:3 (September 2010):601-17.]. 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. Since the image of God had been destroyed in us by the fall, we may judge from its restoration what it originally had been. However, the word for "let us make" (naaseh, ) which is plural, is translated as "let us make" () which is plural in the Greek as well. III. "And let them have dominion " This is another quality of man's kinship with the Eternal. Matthew Henry Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 9:24-27. The union of attributes which constitute his spiritual nature is his character or likeness. 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. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female . And those instinctive abilities in the birds!I'm always fascinated by that little bird in Hawaii that goes up into the Aleutian chain in order to mate. It is false that scripture does not leave room for his investigation. Hitherto, it had been said, "Let there be light," and "Let there be a firmament," and "Let the earth, or waters, bring forth" such a thing; but now the word of command is turned into a word of consultation, "Let us make man, for whose sake the rest of the creatures were made: this is a work we must take into our own hands." But, really, they're not following the same path, so that argument's sort of shot down, because, really, the parents decide to leave for Hawaii before the kids are able to fly that far. Tirinus. Fifth, it is in keeping, as far as it goes, with the facts of botany, zoology, and ethnology. 98. 3 And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. In the beginning God created everything the heavens and the earth. 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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.". 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. What does He do then? In this new section accordingly it is written, "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created [going up to the first], in the day* [here the writer comes down] that Jehovah-Elohim made the earth and the heavens." The rest of the world exists through the word of God; man through His own peculiar breath. 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. Today we will be continuing to make our way through Ephesians Chapter 5, verses 21 through 33. V. That God gave to man, when he had made him, a dominion over the inferior creatures, over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air. Being made in Gods image, human beings are unique in Gods creation. 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. The geometric patterns and design.And so, of all of the millions of people, there may be some who look somewhat alike, and yet, you know, when you get to know twins, you'll be able to tell them apart at sight, because there's just enough difference between everybody. That is why, when God created man and He created the garden for man to dwell in, that He put in that Garden a tree of knowledge of good and evil and said to man, "Don't eat that". "In the image of God male and female created he them " This means that woman also is made in the image of God. I'm so glad that I know Him. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And it is able to take out of the soil just the necessary chemicals to support that particular plant; able to tell the difference between the chemicals, knows just the chemicals that it needs out of the soil to feed the particular plant that it's coming from, to bring the moisture up out of the soil and all. I only speak of what is good for man out of Paradise, and how God meets with and ministers to his state in His infinite grace. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth. divine Creators and Makers in the plural number, ( Job 35:10 ) ( Psalms 149:2 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 30:1 (March 1987):67, 66. It is a mistake to include the world before that event in the time of dispensations. Man will rise and live again. But it is evident that dispensation, in the true sense of the word, there was none. Notwithstanding in the midst of the scene of desolation we hear Adam calling his wife's name "Eve" (ver. The change of designation springs from distinct truths, not from different fabulists and a sorry compiler who could not even assimilate them. Believers have constantly called it a "promise;" but it is not uninstructive to see that scripture never does. 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. fowl of the air; [Note: See James Jordan, "Rebellion, Tyranny, and Dominion in the Book of Genesis," Christianity and Civilization 3 (Summer 1983):38-80. 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. For in laying hold of the three faculties of the soul enumerated by Aristotle, the intellect, the memory, and the will, he afterwards out of one Trinity derives many. "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Was it a state for a promise? 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. Now God is honored when I follow Him, and I love as He loves. But in that trinity of His nature, He said "let us make man after our image" and thus he made man after His image, a trinity of nature. This verse states God intends for people to rule over fish, birds, and animals. The text we are studying for Sunday, September 16 is Genesis 1:26-31 + 2:4-7.This is that portion of the creation story or stories in Genesis 1 & 2 that deals with the creation of adam, which is variously translated (in the NRSV, anyway) as "humankind" (Genesis 1:26 & 27) and as "man" (Genesis 2:7).This means we're skipping over the institution of the Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3), and . But nothing softened the roused and irritated spirit of Cain. Each severally the man, the woman, the serpent stand evidently convicted by the presence of Jehovah-Elohim. This is of immense importance. Observe, in the beginning of the word of God, the sources of all things. What dispensation could there be? Yet in Genesis 1:29, God states that human beings are only permitted a plant-based diet. *How this agrees with the dispensational dealings of God with Israel needs no argument. But while this question of who was God talking to may seem impossible to answer. Science may investigate the physical world and suggest how something happened, but it cannot say who made it happen. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. , over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Many commentators opine that these words, "image" and "likeness," are essentially synonymous in Hebrewmeaning that human beings generally look like Godbut doing so limits God's creativity to the merely physical. To God's appeal he answers with no less hardness and audacity than falsehood, "I know not." 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. It is the soul which gives the unity, and which accounts for the personal identity. "So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. (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. Such a glorious God, so wise; all of these created life forms. Hence, we are forced to conclude that the plural pronoun indicates a plurality of persons or hypostases in the Divine Being. *Some have wondered why the serpent and Eve should be represented as saying Elohim ("God") in the temptation, seeing that everywhere else in the section the name employed is Jehovah-Elohim. You will, of course, recognize how important that is. 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. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. He designed a little wing on that seed. Read reviews and buy Genesis 11:27-50:26, 1 - (New American Commentary) by Kenneth Mathews (Hardcover) at Target. The soul of man, considered in its three noble faculties, understanding, will, and active power, is perhaps the brightest clearest looking-glass in nature, wherein to see God. And Jehovah speaks to him once more. There is no real courage with a bad conscience, and guile will soon be apparent where God brings His own light and makes guilt manifest. The word , which indicates that God created the man and woman as two human beings, completely overthrows the idea that man was at first androgynous (cf. [Note: Sailhamer, "Exegetical Notes . 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. God, and God alone, can communicate the truth. Those who often bring up Genesis 1:26 hope we will won't be able to provide a good answer. 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. And God rested on the seventh day from His work of creation.Now as we get into chapter two, we find a recapitulation that will emphasize the creation of man, because of this recapitulation we have now, because man is being emphasized. It is not as if it were a new thing for man to deny the immortality of his own soul. 98. Genesis 1:26-28. The sons of God chose the daughters of men. What scripture gives here or elsewhere seems to me altogether at variance with such a thought. The days that follow I see no ground for interpreting save in their simple and natural import. 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. Christ only is the express image of God's person, as the Son of his Father, having the same nature. The world was living in harmony with God, and thus in harmony with each other.And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. 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. But "Adam," it is said, "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image." God produces life, whether it be for the fish that people the sea, for the birds of the air, or for the beasts, cattle, or reptiles, on the dry land. You've got something over me. For when Moses afterwards repeats the same things he passes over the likeness, and contents himself with mentioning the image. 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. This does not mean simply that certain parts of human beings such as their spiritual, moral or mental capacities reflect the divine nature. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Man takes a special place in creation. He makes every snowflake different. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Could any person have conceived such wisdom beforehand? The Eternal Being is essentially self-manifesting. This you can, if you will, verify in various occasions where scripture furnishes examples of the summary; as, for instance, in the beginning of Genesis 5:1-32, "This is the book of the generations of Adam." For as we have on the sixth day the lower creation for the earth, so finally man himself the crown of all. (84) For the various opinions of Jewish writers on this subject, see Pooles Synopsis in loco. Who else could have told us how and when the earth was thus divided? Such was not the usual style of monarchs in the ancient East. Philosophy believes neither, in a vain effort to account for all by what is, or rather appears; for it knows nothing, not even the present, as it ought to know. In short Enoch is the witness of the heavenly family, as Noah is of the earthly people of God. God Himself has touched it but curtly. Hence, wherever man enters he makes his sway to be felt. Afterwards God tells Noah to come forth he and all the other creatures. 56. - Man is a new species, essentially different from all other kinds on earth. with ( Genesis Every one of them is a perfect geometrical pattern, but no two snowflakes alike. The Heir of all things is the Second man, and not the bride. By beginning the words rendered Wisdom and Power with capitals, it would appear that the second and third Persons of the Trinity were in the mind of the writer when the passage was written. God is pleased when people study his creation and learn its wonders (Psalms 111:2). Undoubtedly "day" may be used, as it often is, in a figurative sense. This then may suffice. We saw at the close of verse 2 the introduction of the Spirit of God on the scene. Genesis 11:7; Psalms 2:3). Another divine, but an infidel, regards the knowledge of good and evil as the image of God by creation. Hence, when notice is here taken of man's formation, it is described (as all else is) in a manner quite distinct from that of Genesis 1:1-31; but that distinctiveness self-evidently is because of the moral relationship which the Spirit of God is here bringing before the reader. 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. Genesis 1:24). 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. Sin needed more. But here the question is respecting that glory of God which peculiarly shines forth in human nature, where the mind, the will, and all the senses, represent the Divine order. Finally, a literal interpretation seems not only contradictory to the rest of Scripture, and unlikely, but also inappropriate, Gardener aptly observed: But our anatomy and physiology is demanded by our terrestrial habitat, and quite inappropriate to the one who inhabits eternity. For these reasons, theologians have concluded that the statement in Genesis 1:26-28 must be metaphorical of mans spiritual or immaterial nature." It appears to me beyond reasonable doubt that the other two rivers are by no means impossible to trace; and it is remarkable, as showing that the Spirit of God takes an interest, and furnishes a thread to help us in the fact, that the two less notorious rivers are described more fully than the rivers which are so commonly known. In any case it was mercy to confine the curse certainly earned by Ham within the narrowest limits, instead of extending it to all his posterity. No solid reason whatever appears why it should be so used here. If this appearance were actually the fact, it would be impossible to escape the conclusion that the text is faulty, and that has fallen out; so that the reading should be, "and over all the wild beasts of the earth," as the Syriac has it. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. It is no longer the test of creation, as God made it, and this accordingly is marked here. There was no dispensation, properly so called, before it. 2. Where all was bright and good around man in innocency the scope for labour would not have its place. ", 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). Such an interpretation should be rejected for at least four reasons. Genesis 2:18; Psalm 12:5; Isaiah 33:10). let them be for lights in the firmament in the heavens to give light upon the earth: and it was so. Caesarius and Epiphanius held it to be the Danube, the Ganges, and the Indus, and that after an extraordinary course in the south it joined the ocean near Cadiz! 1. So again the woman has her portion, of which we need not say more than to point out what a clue it is to her lot in the history of the race. God created (cf. Mankind was the only form of life created "after our likeness" and The image and likeness must necessarily be intellectual; his mind, his soul, must have been formed after the nature and perfections of his God. But what man would have thought it, or said it, if he had not been inspired? That man's creation was a more signal and immediate act of divine wisdom and power than that of the other creatures. The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in And man eat too, not deceived, but with open eyes, and therefore so much the more guilty swayed, no doubt, by his affections; bold, however, in yielding to them, for he ought rather to have been her guard and guide, certainly not to have followed her, even if he had failed to keep her safely in the path of good. Not "El", but "Elohim" created the heavens and the earth.And the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, moved over the face of the waters. "And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God* said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? For God passes rapidly over the early account and history of the globe I might almost say, hastening to that condition of the earth in which it was to be made the habitation of mankind; whereon also God was to display His moral dealings, and finally His own Son, with the fruitful consequences of that stupendous event, whether in rejection or in redemption. 1. Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . Yes, Jehovah is in question. 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. *Is it not the more captiousness of criticism to set the general phrase "the day," etc., against the precision of the six days in the previous section? So the Holy Spirit, basically, is the author of all the scripture and who He was inspiring is of no import to us.So next week, we'll continue with chapter two. (f) Vet. (Genesis 2:1-3). We did not evolve from other lower forms of life. If mans physical being is in the image of God we would immediately wonder what, if any organs, God possesses. God does not give such knowledge by direct revelation. 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. There is a day coming when the ground of God's action will be neither innocence nor sin, but righteousness. Then we find the waters caused to bring forth abundantly "the moving creature that hath life." 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. Any one who is acquainted with the chief writings of the old idolatrous world, of the Greeks and Romans especially, will see that what God has veiled in this brief statement, which passes calmly over that of which more had better not be spoken, is what they have amplified into the Titans and the giants and their greater deities. Man was formed especially from the ground and given the breath of life from God. (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 God saw that it was good. This is brought before us here. "Likeness" is a more general term, indicating resemblance in any quality, external or internal. What is important for us to know is what did God say. Adam on the very first day of his life, even before Eve was formed, gave the animals their names, and God Himself sanctioned what their head uttered. I make sounds by the use of the throat and the tongue and the teeth, and the roof of the mouth and so forth. But this divine statement, in connection with man's moral relationship with God, here calmly and clearly stated, is the true key. Ed.
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