genesis 1:26 explanation
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. And God set them in the heavens [the firmament, in the limitless space of heaven, the rachowq of heaven] to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. preceding clause, and includes male and female, as we find by the (Colossians 3:10, and Ephesians 4:23.) Neither would have suited the chapter; both are perfectly in season in Genesis 2:1-25. Man will rise and live again. I merely use these scriptural facts to shew what seems to me the truth that "sin" here does not refer to the specific offering for it, but rather to that which was proved by evil conduct. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. ), God created man male and female as an expression of His own plurality: "Let us make man. This explains why adherents of the Abraham religions express a spiritual craving for God or . Lyra. This indeed is the invariable truth of scripture, and runs through it to the last. No, but in judging the serpent there comes out the revealed purpose of God, not a promise to Adam in sin, but the revelation of One who would crush the serpent's head the first sinner and too successful tempter to sin. In this too God's own glory is brought before us, and so much the more because there is not the smallest effort. Let them have dominion.The plural here shows that we have to do not with Adam and Eve, but with the human race generally. This precludes all pantheistic notions of the origin of man. Here then we only hear of pairs which enter. So God is a superior trinity. ], "Us" is probably a plural of intensification (see my comment on Genesis 1:1 above), though some regard it as a plural of self-deliberation (cf. Genesis 1:9-13 9 Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. In conclusion, the Sabbath day, which God* sanctified, closes the great week of God's forming the earth for man, the lord of it. last, and beside me there is no God: and three jods (yyy) testify concerning him, that In the Pentateuch the Hebrew term "image" occurs also in Genesis 5:3 and in Numbers 33:22. The sun, moon, and stars, would certainly have been first introduced, had man simply pursued the workings of his own mind, or those of observation and experience. There can be no doubt that the Euphrates and the Tigris or Hiddekel, here named, are the same two rivers similarly called to this moment. It is unfounded to say that in the second narrative the present world is supposed to be brought forth at once. We come at length to him in whom God brings in wholly new principles in His own grace to meet a new and monstrous evil idolatry. Cain looked at Him in the place merely of a Creator, and there was his wrong. These words are directed not to the earth, out of which man was The argument his accusers used was that the Bible says the earth remains still and the sun rises and sets upon it (1 Chronicles 16:30; Ecclesiastes 1:5). Carmen Memorial. This breath is the seal and pledge of our relation to God, of our godlike dignity; whereas the breath breathed into the animals is nothing but the common breath, the life-wind of nature, which is moving everywhere, and only appears in the animal fixed and bound into a certain independence and individuality, so that the animal soul is nothing but a nature-soul individualized into certain, though still material spirituality." For it is a day when all things are in question, even the surest. There is no record of previous populations that sometimes are alleged from what is written here to have existed prior to humanity. It is all well, and a desirable service of love, if a Christian can happily and with God-given wisdom meet the difficulties of others; but hold you the truth yourselves. 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. 1:24 ) so as to keep them in awe, and keep them off from But still it is well to take note that we have thus a grand basis of things as they really are a divine communication to us of facts of the utmost moment, and, at the same time, of the deepest interest to the children of God. The word "meor" is a light holder. numerations. They are a waste of your time and my time. God, having introduced His own Son, has won the victory, the fruits of which He gives to us by faith before our possession is displayed by and-by. ], As a husband and wife demonstrate oneness in their marriage they reflect the unity of the Godhead. The very absurdity that God is a sexual being renders this interpretation highly unlikely. The great Christian doctrines of the Incarnation and the Virgin Birth are part and parcel of this. Each severally the man, the woman, the serpent stand evidently convicted by the presence of Jehovah-Elohim. Now comes in the shadow of what God would do fully another day. He begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. Now, when God created our bodies, He created ears so that we could hear, designed them so that they would pick up sound vibrations that would bounce or vibrate the little incus stapes, and bones in there and send these vibrations into the brain that my brain would interpret as words and sounds and make it intelligible to me. set up by Josephus and a crowd of Greek and Latin fathers, the Nile according to Jarchi and other Rabbis, the Indus of late reasserted by Ewald, more than one of the fathers considering it to be the Danube! The whole person is in Gods image. And the same was in the beginning with God, and all things were made by Him"(Joh 1:1). It is another statement added to what had just preceded, and by the Hebrew idiom not connected with it in time. Their goal is to alter our beliefs and cause us to align with them. So that, they are for signs, for times, for seasons and so forth; and so this becomes very interesting.Now, if this is a process of "re-creation," then it would mean that on the fourth day, actually God did not create the sun and the moon on the fourth day, but He had now allowed them to be in their present, current positions in their relationship to the Earth, and he removed the shroud of fog, and all, from the Earth so that you can finally see the sun and the moon.Now, we have evening and mornings, where we don't see the sun, cloudy days, cloudy all day long. A person is held out the Seed of the woman; for the manner most expressly bespeaks the tender mercy of God. In the day that God created man." It is true that objections have been raised by natural historians to this testimony of Scripture, but without scientific ground. These again are of less importance than the land, which man tills and renders fruitful in all that can gratify his appetite or his taste. 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. Thus, as God appeared to man in the Old Testament, there was no form, so that man would not think of God in the terms of a form and try to carve out a form that would represent God.The likeness of God we see in Jesus Christ; the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwells in Christ. 145.] "And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded.". God, and God alone, can communicate the truth. He made man the master over the earth. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah. Yet it was both an honour and a favour to him that he was made last: an honour, for the method of the creation was to advance from that which was less perfect to that which was more so; and a favour, for it was not fit he should be lodged in the palace designed for him till it was completely fitted up and furnished for his reception. Genesis 1:26-28. As Christ came into our world without sin, his true rank therefore was that of Adam, as God had created Adam, and before the Fall. (91) Innuit in homine esse imaginem Dei, sed imperfectam et qualem umbrae. Oleaster in Poli Synopsi. That any one is capable of meeting the character of God in an unfallen state is another matter. I'm made in the image of God, who is a self-determinant being.Now, if God created me with a capacity of choice, it would be totally meaningless unless He gave me a choice. "Where is Abel thy brother?" There was a famine in the land: Though Isaac lived in the land God promised to his father Abraham and his descendants, it did not mean that life in the land would be without trouble or challenge. If man can discover such facts by other means, be it so. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the earth. See Notes 2 and 5, at page 75. *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. Now, if they would drop straight down under the pine tree, they would probably never survive very long because the mother pine would be taking too much of the nutrients from the soil. "El" is God in Hebrew, singular. Countless years ago God, by his sovereign power and will, created the universe. Thus it is that whether it be the Old Testament or New, one half (speaking now in a general way) consists of history. If, in consequence of the curse pronounced upon the earth after the sin of man, who was appointed head and lord of nature, the whole creation was subjected to vanity and the bondage of corruption (Romans 8:20. co-workers with God in creation F7: and man being the principal 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. p. 108. apud Wagenseil. Had it been spoken of in the first chapter, there might have been grave exception taken whether such an account could have been inspired; but, coming in as it does, it is exactly as it ought to be. This elementary truth is of immense importance at the present moment. But in Genesis 6:1-22 we have a very solemn statement the apostacy of the ancient world. Now there is not really the very least ground for such an assumption. 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. They sprout out a little parachute on top of the seed and they just wait for the wind to come along, and the wind comes and lifts the seed. This truly is some portion, though very small, of the image of God. Observe, in the beginning of the word of God, the sources of all things. THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Now, He created also the mammals, the great whales. And as we suggested last Thursday night, it is possible that He'll be the only handicapped person in there. This point will suffice to indicate their chief guilt in thus traversing the boundaries which God had appointed for His creatures. So we find what shows the folly of this yet more in what follows: "And they that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Jehovah shut him in." Every subject that comes before us is dealt with in a new point of view suitably to the new name given to God the name of God as a moral governor, no longer simply as a creator. Men, the wisest those of whom the world has most boasted, never had even the least adequate thought of such a state of things; yet enough of tradition remained even among heathens to witness to the truth. With this the legends of the heathen world respecting the golden age of the past, and its return at the end of time, also correspond (cf. This was made in the image and likeness of God. "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Does he have the form of a man, or of a woman, or both? 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 . We see God's tender care and parental solicitude for the comfort and well-being of this masterpiece of his workmanship, in creating the world previously to the creation of man. That angels could assist in a work of creation. "The image is found in the type of relationship that was designed to exist between male and female human beings, a relationship where the characteristics of each sex are valued and used to form a oneness in their identity and purpose. If you're not saying that already, you'll be saying it before you sit in too many gas lines. And rather than trying to figure out who wrote it, it's better to find out what it says. How infinite His wisdom! This is the divine ethnology. It is the issue of that probationary trial which was proposed there. When Genesis 1:26 reveals that God made man in God's image, that means He gave man a will, emotion, and intelligence. Then the various species of land animals and birds are brought forward to see what Adam would call them; not when Eve was formed, but before. It doesn't mean that God was now exhausted, but it means that the creative works were completed. But into the proof of this we cannot now pause to enter. The thing indeed is true; but I do not think that anything of the kind entered the mind of Moses. The cheaper edition published in 2010 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language is the abridged concise edition. But this was not Adam's state, but simply made upright, with absence and ignorance of evil. 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. that says let us make, is Jehovah; I am the first, and I am the It has nothing to do with moral relationships. Oneness involves being in agreement with Gods will and purposes. Yet none did or could anticipate it. Man was to be a creature different from all that had been hitherto made. "By ruling as one, male and female fulfill the purpose of God for which they were created. Free standard shipping with $35 orders. there is none above him, nor any below him, but he is in the 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. If so, the shift to poetry may emphasize human beings as Gods image bearers. 2. In all pretended revelations it is not so. United as one humanity, male and female are one with God and his heavenly court. This does not mean simply that certain parts of human beings such as their spiritual, moral or mental capacities reflect the divine nature. By speech we make certain easy and sensible acts of our own the signs of the various objects of our contemplative faculties to ourselves and others. It was impossible that such a ground could be rightly taken longer; but so Cain did not feel. And you just look around, God'll speak to you through the grass, through the vegetables, through the flowers, through the trees. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (not from the Old Testament, but from the New), of a person. *We may judge how little the LXX. what disappointment and grief, both of the most poignant kind, followed ere long For Abel too was born; and in process of time it came to pass that they brought their offerings unto "Jehovah" a term, I may observe, that is here in admirable keeping. He rested just from His creation. For this, as for other reasons, it is manifest that Genesis 2:1-25 ought to begin with the verse which stands fourth in the common English Bible. "Man" refers to mankind, not Adam individually (Genesis 1:27). Angels were created, but they are spirits, lacking potential. As they lost further density, the surrounding clouds of vapour gradually rose from the earth, producing a clear distinction between the oceans surface below and the ceiling of heavy cloud overhead (6-8; second day). First of all (verse 3) light is caused to be or act. The end of this chapter shows that the man in whose person the principle of human government was set up could not govern himself. Other seeds surround themselves with a luscious tasting juice and all, and a little bit of meaty stuff, and so you eat, or the bear eats the berries, then later on he propagates the seeds in other areas.The way that seeds are designed to propagate themselves are fascinating indeed. It is said that the name of the first river is the Pison, and of the other the Gihon. And here in a secondary sense of the word is the propriety of the phrase "created" in verse 21; and we shall see it also when a new action comes before us in imparting not animal life but a rational soul. At first the earth was featureless and in darkness because of the mass of surrounding water, but as the thick clouds of water vapour began to lose their density, a hazy light came by day from the invisible sun (1:1-5; first day). The Bible speaks of the heavens and the earth as ordinary people see them from their standpoint on earth. introduced into it as into an house ready prepared and furnished "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us," says Genesis 1:26 in the NLT. *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? Therein is the choice that man was given, because having been created with the capacity of choice, it is no value unless there is something to choose.But again, in honoring and respecting my choice, if I choose that I don't want to know God, I don't want to serve God, I don't want to love God, then it would be manifestly wrong for Him to force me to go to heaven where I would have to love Him, and have to be with Him, and have to serve Him. But God does communicate in such a way as at once meets the heart, and mind, and conscience. 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. Human lusts and passions were not yet in question, but they soon followed the desire of having what God had forbidden. 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. As to the manner in which God made man in His image, it is significant that man himself is a trinity - having mind, spirit, and body. This is that form of God in which he has created man, and condescends to communicate with him. To the end of the third verse of that chapter it was always God (Elohim) as such. with ( Genesis Tela ignea, vol. 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. (h) Tikkune Zohar, correct. The grand question to be tried we have afterwards. "And they (, a generic term for men) shall have dominion over the fish," etc. But they cannot produce facts, for they have none. 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. 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. It is the beauty and the blessedness of scripture that it is as much above man's science as above his ignorance. And Jehovah speaks to him thus "Why art thou wroth? Nebuchadnezzar, "I have dreamed" Daniel 2:3. May we seek to be taught more and more His truth, leaning on His grace! He will withhold no good from those who walk uprightly; and there is no other way than Jesus Christ our Lord. God is holy, just, wise, good, and perfect; so must the soul be that sprang from him: there could be in it nothing impure, unjust, ignorant, evil, low, base, mean, or vile. With us saying and doing are two things; but they are not so with God. Man feels that this is exactly what is appropriate to God. It is the present result. 56. "Replenish the earth " This does not envision a re-population of the earth, but the spread of mankind throughout all the world. Gods plurality anticipated mans plurality. And here we find the solemn truth, that not only did Jehovah-Elohim cause to grow every tree that is pleasant and good for food, but "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.". Although in the animal kingdom, as it at present exists, many varieties are so organized that they live exclusively upon the flesh of other animals, which they kill and devour; this by no means necessitates the conclusion, that the carnivorous beasts of prey were created after the fall, or the assumption that they were originally intended to feed upon flesh, and organized accordingly. * "Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be." His condition was that of a sinner, and he looked not out of himself to God. If its language were that of modern science, people in former ages would not have understood it, and people in future ages would find it out of date. This is to rule on a limited scale. When it is no question of these, creating, making, and forming may be freely used, as in Isaiah 45:18. More than that: it is the conviction of all men, and men worthy to be listened to, that not more surely are they divided into three grand lines than that these three lines had a common origin. Some . "`aleph', he, `jod', him), ( Proverbs And, in the second place, the interpretation now given claims acceptance on the ground of its internal and external consistency with truth. Where is anything like it in all the known ways of God? The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in The image of God within them is what makes them human. As Apostolic's we can in fact give solid biblical answers as to why God may have used a plural form. It is the language of One who has special relationships with Noah and with his family. Leave out the fall; fail to keep it before you and test all with that in mind, and you will be wrong about every result. God and man share a likeness that is not shared by other creatures. If you are speaking in the intimacies of the family, you do not adopt the same language towards your parents, wife, child, or servant, still less towards a stranger outside. What can be more consistent? His understanding saw divine things clearly and truly, and there were no errors nor mistakes in his knowledge. This word involves "in germ" the doctrine of the Trinity. Through His creation, as you look at the wisdom, as you study it, as God has designed the leaves to take and turn the sunrays into energy and, and all, and the photosynthesis processes by which the sun is turned into energy to feed the tree and all. "In our image, after our likeness." he", that is, (hyha) , "I But there is enough in man's amplification to point to what is stated here in a few simple words of truth. We see introduced, without more delay upon the scene, one too well and yet too little known, the active, audacious, most subtle adversary of God and man, the serpent from whom sin and misery result, as the Bible witnesses from the beginning to the end who is here first brought in a few quiet words before us. And it is this unity between male and female, and between humanity and God, that is destroyed in the Fall described in Genesis 3." By what formal test was he proved outside? "In the beginning God created." In every way it proves itself the word not of men, but as it is in truth of God, which effectually works in them that believe. In the remarkable list, which is pursued down to Noah, we have another great truth set forth in the most simple and beautiful way the power of life which exempts from the reign of death, and not only that, but the witness to heaven as a place for man. b. (84) The earth, forsooth, was a most excellent adviser! [Note: See Ross, Creation and . the angels, as the Targum of Jonathan, Jarchi, and others, who That is why human beings, in spite of the dignity and status given them by God, cannot exist independently of God. Here then we enter on an entirely new state of things, and a truth of capital importance for everybody to consider who has not already made it his own. And of course a little coconut tree would come up and then he would begin to propagate across the South Pacific islands.Fruit bearing seeds, vegetable-bearing seeds, grass bearing seeds, after their kind. Now the first three verses of chapter two belong to chapter one.Thus were the heavens of the earth were finished, and all [of] the host of them (Gen 2:1). 119. 1 In the a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. God created the rest of the universe in the first five days, and, "Then God said". But He will still be bearing the marks of His cross, and may be the only malformed body in heaven.So, "God making man in His own image and after His own likeness" is speaking of that spiritual nature and those capacities of God: self-determination, love, those capacities that He has given to me.And God blessed them, and he said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth over the earth (Gen 1:28). Such is the way in which God puts His truth, and this in the earliest part of His word. Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. 2. 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. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27; . Chapter 12:1-21:34 Abraham, the father of all believers (Romans 4) a. "Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus". [Note: E.g., Claus Westermann, Genesis 1-11 : A Commentary, p. And knowing me and loving me, and knowing what is best, He seeks to influence my choice and to direct my choice, but I always have the right to say, "bug off, God, I don't want to follow you." All this is an added account. Of the trillions of snowflakes that fall every year, God just likes variety so much. Here indeed the principle of reserve does apply, not in withholding from man's soul the deepest blessing of grace for his deepest wants, but in furnishing no more than that which was suitable for man to learn about the matter. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 53:3 (September 2010):601-17.]. He is to be related to the Eternal Being himself. The details are of the highest interest, more especially when compared with the predicted results in the latter day, where we see the same countries and nations re-appear for judgment in the day of Jehovah. 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