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. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our. for him; a consultation is held among the divine Persons about They may want to, and may bring disaster upon themselves as a result (as seen in the story of their original disobedience; see notes on 2:8-17, 3:1-24 below), but they cannot destroy the image of God. 38. Do you not understand that this was the very essence of the trial? If men, and men too of ability and learning, have tortured the signs of its very perfection into proofs of defective and clashing documents, ridiculously combined by a man who did not perceive that he was editing not fables only but inconsistent fables, what can believers do but wonder at human blindness, and adore divine grace ' For themselves, with glowing gratitude they receive it as the precious word of God, where His love and goodness and truth shine in a way beyond all comparison, and yet meeting the mind and heart in the least, no less than in the most serious, wants that each day brings here below. 119. On the other hand, man has potential and it is unlimited in amount and variety. over the plural number as expressive of honour and majesty; since such a How remarkably this has been made good in the providential history of the world I need not stay to prove, how Jehovah God connected His name with Shem, to the humiliation of Canaan, and how Elohim enlarged Japhet, who would spread himself not merely in his own destined lot, but even dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan humbled there too. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. But it is the word of God, and nothing can be more suitable to God, gracious to man, or just to the enemy. She thought her first-born a great gain, for such is the meaning of the name "Cain." Scripture does not say more, and we must hold to scripture. He pronounces a . The real worth of God's promises cannot be lessened to a believer by any cross providences that . After this he could estimate and know things himself as good or evil; whilst innocent this could not be. And you just look around, God'll speak to you through the grass, through the vegetables, through the flowers, through the trees. 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. I have no hesitation in saying that it is a mistaken interpretation, however prevalent. The story is recorded as if someone were describing creation, not from somewhere in outer space, but from his dwelling place on earth. A numerous lasting family, to enjoy this inheritance, pronouncing a blessing upon them, in virtue of which their posterity should extend to the utmost corners of the earth and continue to the utmost period of time. Yet, the NIV Study Bible also writes in its commentary on Genesis 1:26, Us . Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Who was God talking to? But the chapter does not close until we find Seth, whom God* substituted (for this is the meaning of the name), or "appointed," as it is said, "instead of Abel, whom Cain slew." Lyra. This does not mean simply that certain parts of human beings such as their spiritual, moral or mental capacities reflect the divine nature. . 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. 80.]. I do not think that the expression means a sin-offering, as is sometimes supposed; for it does not appear that there is ground for inferring that the truth of a sin-offering was understood in the slightest degree till long afterwards. It is the truth, and in such a form and depth as man himself could not have discerned. By none whatever. It is not in this connection "created," it will be observed, but "made" them. Thus in Genesis 6:1-22 it is said that "the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." He is called "Jehovah;" He is not designated by the former mingled or compound term "Jehovah-Elohim," but by "Jehovah" simply; and this is found afterwards, either "Elohim" alone or "Jehovah in the other names of special character, as we shall see," until the call of Israel, when we have an appropriate modification in the expression of His name. And Jehovah speaks to him thus "Why art thou wroth? Then the earth is described as void and waste, and (not as succeeding, but accompanying it) darkness upon the face of the deep, contemporaneously with which the Spirit of God broods upon the face of the waters. Those who made the Pison to be the Ganges regarded the Gihon as the Nile. It may be well to glance at it just to show the importance of heeding the word of God, and all His word. He directs the ark to be made. 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. Countless years ago God, by his sovereign power and will, created the universe. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.". 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. The intention of Almighty God in the creation of man is revealed to have been the placement of man over the earth and all that is in it, an intention frustrated in part by man's rebellion in Eden, but finally realized despite all hindrances and delays in the era of the "new heavens and the new earth." Let him rule man who said, Let us make man. Tirinus. But this seems to me indefensible, though there may be difficulty in reconciling what I regard as the truth with an unusual force of one or two words. To the end of the third verse of that chapter it was always God (Elohim) as such. In our image, after our likeness What is said above refers only to the body of man, what is here said refers to his soul. The plant forms of course, are necessarily rooted. I advise none to embark too confidently in the pursuit of such studies. *It seems almost too trivial to notice what Dr. Davidson and Bishop Colenso (or their German sources) say of Genesis 2:5-6, as if inconsistent with Genesis 1:9-10. The same principle applies in other fields of science. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so (Gen 1:9-11). But what man would have thought it, or said it, if he had not been inspired? I do not venture on any opinion as to this. Noah might have been enabled to shut himself in; but how much more blessed that Jehovah should do it! ** And Jehovah-Elohim formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.". he", that is, (hyha) , "I F6, which is wretchedly stupid; nor to But this made the want so much the more evident, of which Jehovah-Elohim takes notice, of a partner for Adam's affections and life, one that might be before him, as it is said: "And Jehovah-Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.'' Is this merely the conserving of the creature? The language is invariably used in the most perfect manner. And God said, let us make man in our image, after . That's gonna worry you, isn't it?But, oh, how marvelous is our God! Six years they may go into slavery, the seventh year they are set free. That any one is capable of meeting the character of God in an unfallen state is another matter. The world has been established now. "Male and female" has to do in itself with the constitution of the creature, nothing whatever necessarily with moral relationship. We can easily see the propriety of this. The environmental conditions have been placed here for man, the trees, the vegetables have been placed here for his food. And, in the second place, the interpretation now given claims acceptance on the ground of its internal and external consistency with truth. 64. fol. The sun, moon and stars, previously hidden, now became clearly visible. Not a word of this is in the first chapter. Genesis 1:25-26 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the . 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. Oneness in marriage is essential if husband and wife are to fulfill Gods purposes for humankind. An inspired author could not have expressed himself differently from Moses without impairing the perfect beauty and accuracy of the truth. Verse Genesis 1:26. We were . There is not a speech nor a language" (Psa 19:1-3). Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. And therefore God himself not only undertakes to make him, but is pleased so to express himself as if he called a council to consider of the making of him: Let us make man. Infidelity takes increasingly an apostate form, and those that used to revere both Old Testament and New are abandoning the truth of God for the dreamy but mischievous romances of so-called modern science. Humans were created in God's image, with the ability to cultivate and manifest qualities that God possesses, such as love, empathy, and justice. should be made not in the likeness of any of the creatures Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 30:1 (March 1987):67, 66. Some writers have called the image of God mans "spiritual personality." 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. Six years they are to plant their fields, the seventh year they are to let their fields rest. 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. can claim credit for accuracy from their inattention to this difference in the Greek version. Though man provides for neither, he has power over both, much more over every living thing that moveth upon the earth, which are more under his care and within his reach. If His servant bids others behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, how much more does God Himself behold Christ and His sacrifice! Gregory Nyssen has very properly observed that the superiority of man to all other parts of creation is seen in this, that all other creatures are represented as the effect of God's word, but man is represented as the work of God, according to plan and consideration: Let US make MAN in our IMAGE, after our LIKENESS. The word of God is always right. No wonder that total ruin speedily ensues. Observe. The author passes on from the cattle to the entire earth, and embraces all the animal creation in the expression, "every moving thing () that moveth upon the earth," just as in Genesis 1:28, "every living thing upon the earth." So let there be the "light holders" in the heavensto divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years (Gen 1:14): And so our time is calculated by the sun and the moon, and it is generally thought that the Earth's rotation around the sun was a three hundred and sixty-day year. What value is it then for me to have a choice if He doesn't respect it? When men reason instead of receiving the revealed light of the Bible, I care not who or what they may be, they only mistake God and even man. Yet his government of himself by the freedom of his will has in it more of God's image than his government of the creatures. Simpler forms of life then began to appear. It is unfounded to say that in the second narrative the present world is supposed to be brought forth at once. The greater part, and nearly all, conceive that the word image is to be distinguished from likeness. 9-54, for a discussion of the subject.]. The word light in Hebrew is "or". Both were weakened and defiled by the fall, but were still retained in a greater or less degree. Genesis 1:26 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] Genesis 1:26, NIV: Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' Genesis 1:26, ESV: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. God said, Let us make man, and immediately it follows, So God created man; he performed what he resolved. Then another state of things is mentioned in verse 2, not for the heaven, but for the earth. Does not Moses directly exclude all creatures in express terms, when he declares that Adam was created after the image of God? Science may tell us more about Gods creation, but it does so from a viewpoint that is different from that of the Bible. Most wisely all such details awaited the unfolding of another day. Even scholars bring in their western notions from the familiar habit of counting the day from the morning to the evening It is the same thing with the account of the resurrection. In reading the Bible we must understand not only what the Bible says but also what it means. #1 "Then God said,". 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. Pharaoh says, "I have dreamed a dream" Genesis 41:15. Does he have sexual organs, and if so, which? But God does communicate in such a way as at once meets the heart, and mind, and conscience. 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 . a. Expect More. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (not from the Old Testament, but from the New), of a person. Where is anything like it in all the known ways of God? 2 The earth was b without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. 119. Oh, you helped it propagate itself.There are other seeds that develop a quick-drying glue. (Colossians 3:10, and Ephesians 4:23.) Man.Hebrew, Adam. Consequently the attempt of man's mind by what is now to judge of what was then always ends in the merest confusion and total failure. There is next the associated fact of an utter desolation which befell not the heavens, but the earth. 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. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (versesGenesis 11:8-9; Genesis 11:8-9). The impact of this point on the remainder of the Pentateuch and the authors view of Sinai is clear: through Abraham, Israel and the covenant this blessing is to be restored to all mankind." It outlines how he brought the universe through various stages till his creative activity reached its climax in Adam and Eve. Then that isn't' free choice. What caused the change? I have this little system in my eyes with the vitreous jelly on the backside that is taking these little pictures at the rate of about eighteen per second and transmitting the vibrations on into the brain by which my eyes are interpreting the world around me and making it understandable as the vibrations are coming into my brain, and all of it's unscrambling and interpretation as these little flash vibrations are bounced in at eighteen per second. Here then we only hear of pairs which enter. "And God said". (85) Ut certe aeterna ejus sapientia et virtus in ipso resident. The expression is ambiguous; but the French translation renders it, Comme a la verite, sa Sapience eternelle, et Vertu reside en luy; which translation is here followed. In looking into the meaning of these verses we are attempting to discover the nature of man. he followed her, as he has often since, into the broad way of evil. She listened, she looked, she took of the fruit; she ate, and was fallen. It would fit with the Hebrew word "meor". Even we ourselves, who came by natural processes of birth, are said to be formed out of clay and made from the dust of the earth (Job 10:9; Ecclesiastes 3:20). 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. But it is evident that dispensation, in the true sense of the word, there was none. Its insertion forbids the thought, and to speak plainly, convicts those who so understand it either of ignorance, or at the least of inattention. Some . made, as consulting with it, and to be assisting in the formation The order here is from the lowest to the highest. There was no longer trial in Paradise, because man was turned out. When God made man, when Jehovah-Elohim breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, man had no knowledge of things as right or wrong in themselves. Human beings are its main concern, for they alone are made in Gods image. See Genesis 3:22. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." (Genesis 1:26); (Genesis 1:27); gives the general, (Genesis 2:7); (Genesis 2:21) the particular account of th. But here comes a striking difference. Adam did not preserve the place in which God had set him. But the blessing pronounced is omitted, the author hastening to the account of the creation of man, in which the work of creation culminated. 3. *How this agrees with the dispensational dealings of God with Israel needs no argument. How small are the remains of it, and how great the ruins of it! ." An innocent man could not have had the knowledge of good and evil; it pertains necessarily to a fallen one. Certainly this is not mere creation in view, but special dealings of a moral sort. This act of creation, too, like all that precede it, is shown by the divine word "good" to be in accordance with the will of God. It should seem as if this were the work which he longed to be at; as if he had said, "Having at last settled the preliminaries, let us now apply ourselves to the business, Let us make man." Thus we see how the simple truth is after all the deepest wisdom. They were chosen to be the public vessel of divine government on the earth. The Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us. They are a waste of your time and my time. They were all merged in one; and hence it is that we find that Job's friends, though guilty in the Lord's sight, yet alike with him offer burnt-offerings. 133.]. some for another; and over all the wild beasts of the earth, I still know it's daytime, because there's light, but yet I don't see the sun. Believers have constantly called it a "promise;" but it is not uninstructive to see that scripture never does. (87) I answer, is not in the original, but is taken from the French translation. We all have a nose, we all have eyes, we all have eyebrows, we all have---well, we, most of us, have you know, some hair at least. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and the fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. We have here the second part of the sixth day's work, the creation of man, which we are, in a special manner, concerned to take notice of, that we may know ourselves. But then, pretty soon, as the glue dries completely, it falls off and it has propagated itself. From Genesis 1:1 to 2:4, the Bible briefly relates the steps that God took in creating the earth and all living things on it, including the first man and woman.After this general outline, the Bible gives a more detailed account of the creation of man and woman. In all pretended revelations it is not so. The atmosphere has been created to sustain his life. How the various organs of the human body function, for example, is a problem for medical science to solve, not the Bible. The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in the likeness of the holy blessed God, and his Shechinah h; and they also speak i of Adam Kadmon the ancient Adam, as the cause of causes, of whom it is said, "I was as one brought up with him (or an artificer with him), Proverbs 8:30 and to this ancient Adam he said, "let us make man in our image, after our likeness": and again, "let us make man"; to whom did he say this? It is not, but rather of moral relationship. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and while he is in the body, he inhabits the same earth with them. I'm so glad that I serve Him. 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. The most vaulting pride always has the deepest fall. Was it a state for a promise? The notion that intelligible speech is a mere growth from the gradual putting together of elements is a dream of ingenious speculation, which may exercise men's wits, but has no foundation whatever. But they were different from all other animals and were given power over them; for they alone, of all Gods creatures, were made in Gods image (24-31; sixth day). It is God that does all, whether it be for the earth, the air, or the waters. 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. Angels were not made male and female, for they were not to propagate their kind (Luke 20:34-36); but man was made so, that the nature might be propagated and the race continued. In closing the interpretation of this chapter, it is proper to refer to certain first principles of hermeneutical science. 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. They have conceived that, coupling the second verse with the first, it suggests the notion that when God created the earth it was in the state described in the second verse. This completes, then, the restoration of that order and fullness the absence of which is described in the second verse. Yes, Jehovah is in question. The elevation of an extensive tract of land, the subsidence of the overlying waters into the comparative hollows, the clarifying of the atmosphere, the creation of a fresh supply of plants and animals on the newly-formed continent, compose a series of changes which meet the geologist again and again in prosecuting his researches into the bowels of the earth. THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Again, let us note the confronting of the serpent, not with man, who always falls under Satan's power, but with Christ, who always conquers. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'. There was the whole matter. But "Adam," it is said, "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image." In male and female God acts according to His rights and wisdom in creation; and consequently there it is said, "as Elohim commanded him." If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?" If in the first chapter the true God shows Himself in creative power and glory, and in the perfect beneficence which marks too that which He had made; if in the second special relations display yet more His moral way and will, so the serpent does not fail to manifest his actual condition and aim not of course the condition in which he was made, but that to which sin had reduced him. But it is well that their canine wickedness has been joined with a stupidity so great, that they betray their folly to children. God created people to rule over creation. Then we have the further fact stated of the state into which the earth was plunged to which it was reduced. He created the animals, the domesticated-type animals, all after their own kind.And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Noah was undoubtedly; but it is not always, nor here, the aim to draw attention to what was special. In his original estate man was created in God's image, but he had not the knowledge of good and evil. 1. g De confusione Ling. "Man" refers to mankind, not Adam individually (Genesis 1:27). Had it been merely said that Elohim shut him in, it would have simply suggested the Creator's care of every creature; but Jehovah's shutting him in points to special relationship, and the interest taken in that righteous man. The earth is only a very small part of Gods creation, but the creation story in the Bible is concerned mainly with the earth and mentions other features only in relation to the earth.The Genesis account is concerned with showing that God made everything out of nothing, that he worked from the formless to the formed, from the simple to the complex. God has the capacity to reason, so He created us with the ability to reason. The history supposes man thenceforward allowed to act without external law or government to control though God did not fail to work in His merciful goodness in His own sovereignty. Hence the believer finds not the slightest difficulty. 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