God made but one male and one female, that all the nations of men might know themselves to be made of one blood, descendants from one common stock, and might thereby be induced to love one another. The dry land was made to appear, and emerge out of the waters, and was called earth, and given to the children of men. The foundation of all religion being laid in our relation to God as our Creator, it was fit that the book of divine revelations which was intended to be the guide, support, and rule, of religion in the world, should begin, as it does, with a plain and full account of the creation of the world—in answer to that first enquiry of a good conscience, "Where is God my Maker?" Though God hath, in these last days, spoken to us by his Son, yet we are not therefore to think that what he spoke at sundry times and in divers manners to the fathers (Heb. We call it the holy book, because it was written by holy men, and indited by the Holy Ghost; it is perfectly pure from all falsehood and corrupt intention; and the manifest tendency of it is to promote holiness among men. 78:18; see Dan. Commentary on Genesis 4:25,26 (Read Genesis 4:25,26 ) Our first parents were comforted in their affliction by the birth of a son, whom they called Seth, that is, 'set,' 'settled,' or 'placed;' in his seed mankind should continue to the end of time, and from him the Messiah should descend. Trahit sua quemque voluptas—Every man that studies hath some beloved study, which is his delight above any other; and this is mine. 119:130. 4. There are exegetical commentaries, scholarly and technical commentaries, as well as commentaries that are easy to understand. Published by Bible-Commentaries.com Used with permission GENESIS A STUDY OF CREATION AND PARADISE The Book: The name “GENESIS” is the Greek word used in the Septuagint for the first book of the Pentateuch. Present provision was now made, by the immediate products of the upstart earth, which, in obedience to God’s command, was no sooner made than it became fruitful, and brought forth grass for the cattle and herb for the service of man. See Rom. In his purity and rectitude. And, as he framed the tabernacle, so he did the more excellent and durable fabric of this book, exactly according to the pattern shown him in the mount, into which it is better to resolve the certainty of the things herein contained than into any tradition which possibly might be handed down from Adam to Methuselah, from him to Shem, from him to Abraham, and so to the family of Jacob. 2 Tim. Gen 1:1. 6. . Known unto God are all his works, Acts 15:18. Written by well-known and popular theologians, Bible commentaries aid in the study of Scripture by providing explanation and interpretation of Biblical text. 3:9), nor do ill one to another (Gen. 9:6), and a good reason why we should not debase ourselves to the service of sin, and why we should devote ourselves to God’s service. 10:11), and Solomon’s exhortation speaketh unto us as unto sons. An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of. And there was a famine in the land . 11:3. Let us learn from Ps. (1.) 2. 136:9 the stars are mentioned as sharers in that government; The moon and stars to rule by night. Many helps, I know, we have of this kind in our own language, which we have a great deal of reason to value, and to be very thankful to God for: but the scripture is a subject that can never be exhausted. The best Genesis commentaries are listed below. Let us give to God the glory of his bounty to the inferior creatures, that all are fed, as it were, at his table, every day. He spoke, and it was done, done really, effectually, and for perpetuity, not in show only, and to serve a present turn, for he commanded, and it stood fast: with him it was dictum, factum—a word, and a world. 3. That which I aim at in the exposition is to give what I thought the genuine sense, and to make it as plain as I could to ordinary capacities, not troubling my readers with the different sentiments of expositors, which would have been to transcribe Mr. Pool’s Latin Synopsis, where this is done abundantly to our satisfaction and advantage. The sea was, the day before, replenished with its fish, and the air with its fowl; and this day were made the beasts of the earth, the cattle, and the creeping things that pertain to the earth. Provision was likewise made for time to come, by the perpetuating of the several kinds of vegetables, which are numerous, various, and all curious, and every one having its seed in itself after its kind, that, during the continuance of man upon the earth, food might be fetched out of the earth for his use and benefit. Though the vastness of its extent declares it to be the work of his arm stretched out, yet the admirable fineness of its constitution shows that it is a curious piece of art, the work of his fingers. God has thus divided time between light and darkness, because he would daily remind us that this is a world of mixtures and changes. Carnal hearts are apt to think themselves as good as they should be, because in some one matter they are not so bad as they have been. The book of Genesis, Γενεσις, has its name from the title it bears in the Septuagint, βιβλος Γενεσεως, (Genesis 2:4), which signifies the book of the Generation; but it is called in Hebrew בראשית Bereshith, "In the beginning," from its initial word. All his works, in all places of his dominion, do bless him; and, therefore, bless thou the Lord, O my soul! The creation of it. Though there is one kind of flesh of fishes, and another of birds, yet they were made together, and both out of the waters; for the power of the first Cause can produce very different effects from the same second causes. 1:7. 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. We have here an account of the second day’s work, the creation of the firmament, in which observe, 1. Noah was a just man seeking to please God and was blessed by Him with three sons. A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun. And yet he divided time between them, the day for light and the night for darkness, in a constant and regular succession to each other. The learned also in the arts of war have done great service in defending this garden of the Lord against the violent attacks of the powers of darkness, successfully pleading the cause of the sacred writings against the spiteful cavils of atheists, deists, and the profane scoffers of these latter days. The height of the heavens should remind us of God’s supremacy and the infinite distance there is between us and him; the brightness of the heavens and their purity should remind us of his glory, and majesty, and perfect holiness; the vastness of the heavens, their encompassing of the earth, and the influence they have upon it, should remind us of his immensity and universal providence. Good, for it is serviceable to man, whom God had appointed lord of the visible creation. 9:4), according as the duty of every day requires. 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. 119:59. These are absurdities which, being once granted, thousands follow, as we see by sad experience. The world of God (that is, his will and the good pleasure of it) is quick and powerful. Man, as soon as he was made, had the whole visible creation before him, both to contemplate and to take the comfort of. The great things of God’s law and gospel are here written to us, that they might be reduced to a greater certainty, might spread further, remain longer, and be transmitted to distant places and ages more pure and entire than possibly they could be by report and tradition: and we shall have a great deal to answer for if these things which belong to our peace, being thus committed to us in black and white, be neglected by us as a strange and foreign thing, Hos. Expounding the scriptures was the most usual way of preaching in the first and purest ages of the church. He also did the work; he made them all after their kind, not only of divers shapes, but of divers natures, manners, food, and fashions—some to be tame about the house, others to be wild in the fields—some living upon grass and herbs, others upon flesh—some harmless, and others ravenous—some bold, and others timorous—some for man’s service, and not his sustenance, as the horse—others for his sustenance, and not his service, as the sheep—others for both, as the ox—and some for neither, as the wild beasts. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him--He entered fully into Rebekah's feelings, and the burden of his parting counsel to his son was to avoid a marriage alliance with any but the Mesopotamian branch of the family.At the same time he gave him a solemn blessing--pronounced before unwittingly, now designedly, and with a cordial spirit. The express notice here taken of the whale, above all the rest, seems sufficient to determine what animal is meant by the Leviathan, Job 41:1. That faith without which it is impossible to please God, cannot come to any perfection by seeing the works of God, but it must come by hearing the word of God, Rom. II. 26:5. He that made all sees all; he that made us sees us, Ps. That divine revelation is necessary to true religion, to the being and support of it. And as atheists, so deists, notwithstanding their vain-glorious pretensions to reason, as if wisdom must die with them, run themselves upon the grossest and most dishonourable absurdities imaginable; for, if the scriptures be not the word of God, then there is no divine revelation now in the world, no discovery at all of God’s mind concerning our duty and happiness: so that, let a man be ever so desirous and solicitous to do his Maker’s will, he must, without remedy, perish in the ignorance of it, since there is no book but this that will undertake to tell him what it is, a consequence which can by no means be reconciled to the idea we have of the divine goodness. It is true, the Jews, who had the benefit of divine revelation, lapsed sometimes into idolatry, and admitted very gross corruptions; yet, with the help of the law and the prophets, they recovered and reformed: whereas the best and most admired philosophy of the heathen could never do any thing toward the cure of the vulgar idolatry, or so much as offered to remove any of those barbarous and ridiculous rites of their religion, which were the scandal and reproach of the human nature. 2. Let him rule man who said, Let us make man. Observe. 42:7; 69:2, 14, 15. The darkness of the evening was before the light of the morning, that it might serve for a foil to it, to set it off, and make it shine the brighter. Life is a wasting thing. Particulars about the creation. Though Adam had dominion given him over fish and fowl, yet God confined him, in his food, to herbs and fruits; and he never complained of it. 74:16. 4:24; Col. 3:10. He did not pronounce it good till he had seen it so, to teach us not to answer a matter before we hear it. Omniscience cannot be separated from omnipotence. We burn our Master’s candles, but do not mind our Master’s work. The works of Satan and his servants are works of darkness; but he that doeth truth, and doeth good, cometh to the light, and coveteth it, that his deeds may be made manifest, Jn. Semper habet aliquid relegentibus—However frequently we read it, we shall always meet with something new. But he did it in six days, that he might show himself a free-agent, doing his own work both in his own way and in his own time,—that his wisdom, power, and goodness, might appear to us, and be meditated upon by us, the more distinctly,—and that he might set us an example of working six days and resting the seventh; it is therefore made the reason of the fourth commandment. 139:1–16. How ungrateful and inexcusable are we, if, when God has set up these lights for us to work by, we sleep, or play, or trifle away the time of business, and neglect the great work we were sent into the world about! II. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible. The sun is the greatest light of all, more than a million times greater than the earth, and the most glorious and useful of all the lamps of heaven, a noble instance of the Creator’s wisdom, power, and goodness, and an invaluable blessing to the creatures of this lower world. If God give us food for our lives, let us not, with murmuring Israel, ask food for our lusts, Ps. Lord, open our eyes, that we may see the wondrous things both of thy law and gospel! 14:13; 65:9, 10. That all scripture is given by inspiration of God, (2 Tim. VI. 1:9; 9:5. V. That the holy scriptures were not only designed for our learning, but are the settled standing rule of our faith and practice, by which we must be governed now and judged shortly: it is not only a book of general use (so the writings of good and wise men may be), but it is of sovereign and commanding authority, the statute-book of God’s kingdom, which our oath of allegiance to him, as our supreme Lord, binds us to the observance of. 2. In the writings of the prophets we meet with more of the plain and express promises of the Messiah, and the grace of the gospel; but here, in the books of Moses, we find more of the types, both real and personal figures of him that was to come—shadows, of which the substance is Christ, Rom. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which. His thoughts were easily brought and fixed to the best subjects, and there was no vanity nor ungovernableness in them. 3:16) and that holy men spake and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, (2 Pt. The command given concerning them: Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. Man was to be a creature different from all that had been hitherto made. The evening and the morning were the first day. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light; not that by it he himself might see to work (for the darkness and light are both alike to him), but that by it we might see his works and his glory in them, and might work our works while it is day. Study Genesis 2 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. 12:3), but this was not sufficient to give light to the earth; and perhaps for this reason it is not expressly said of the second day’s work, in which the firmament was made, that it was good, because, till it was adorned with these lights on the fourth day, it had not become serviceable to man. And now, as God reviewed his work, let us review our meditations upon it, and we shall find them very lame and defective, and our praises low and flat; let us therefore stir up ourselves, and all that is within us, to worship him that made the heaven, earth, and sea, and the fountains of waters, according to the tenour of the everlasting gospel, which is preached to every nation, Rev. 1:26), for he has prepared it in the heavens; the heavens therefore are said to rule, Dan. . Being fully persuaded therefore of these things, I conclude that whatever help is offered to good Christians in searching the scriptures is real service done to the glory of God, and to the interests of his kingdom among men; and it is this that hath drawn me into this undertaking, which I have gone about in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling (1 Co. 2:3), lest I should be found exercising myself in things to high for me, and so laudable an undertaking should suffer damage by an unskilful management. No more is meant than that they give light, Jer. The first sabbath. 1. That divine revelation is not now to be found nor expected any where but in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament; and there it is. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 104:14. Access the Download Library Job 38:4. 145:10); and, lastly, to be a probationer for a better state. The complacency God took in his work. This dominion is very much diminished and lost by the fall; yet God’s providence continues so much of it to the children of men as is necessary to the safety and support of their lives, and God’s grace has given to the saints a new and better title to the creature than that which was forfeited by sin; for all is ours if we are Christ’s, 1 Co. 3:22.
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