Truly the light is sweet (Eccl. Those lights were to be in the firmament of heaven, that vast expanse which encloses the earth, and is conspicuous to all; for no man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it under a bushel, but on a candlestick (Lu. 1:7. 2. 2:20), in whom both these sides of this blessed building meet and are united: they were those ancient records of the Jewish church which Christ and his apostles so oft referred to, so oft appealed to, and commanded us to search and to take heed to. The blessing of them, in order to their continuance. Lord, give what thou commandest, and then command what thou pleasest. O the power of the word of God! God said, Let it be so, and it was so; no sooner said than done. 2 Tim. He is a great housekeeper, a very rich and bountiful one, that satisfies the desire of every living thing. I have now nothing more to add than to recommend myself to the prayers of my friends, and them to the grace of the Lord Jesus; and so rest an unworthy dependent upon that grace, and, through that, an expectant of the glory to be revealed. The scriptures, or writings of the several inspired penmen, from Moses down to St. John, in which divine light, like that of the morning, shone gradually (the sacred canon being now completed), are all put together in this blessed Bible, which, thanks be to God, we have in our hands, and they make as perfect a day as we are to expect on this side of heaven. Fruitfulness and increase depend upon the blessing of God: Obed-edom had eight sons, for God blessed him, 1 Chr. Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible. Neh. Food provided for the beasts, v. 30. The world of God (that is, his will and the good pleasure of it) is quick and powerful. Therefore judge nothing before the time. 8:8. It is true, there were religion and divine revelation before there was any written word; but to argue from thence, that the scriptures are not now necessary, it as absurd as it would be to argue that the world might do well enough without the sun, because in the creation the world had light three days before the sun was made. The learned in the languages and in ancient usages have been very serviceable to the church (the blessed occupant of this field), by their curious and elaborate searches into its various products, their anatomies of its plants, and the entertaining lectures they have read upon them. His affections were all regular, and he had no inordinate appetites or passions. 2. Here is. The planting of the garden of Eden. Good, for it answers the end of its creation, and is fit for the purpose for which it was designed. They must be for the distinction of times, of day and night, summer and winter, which are interchanged by the motion of the sun, whose rising makes day, his setting night, his approach towards our tropic summer, his recess to the other winter: and thus, under the sun, there is a season to every purpose, Eccl. The entrance into God’s word gives this light, Ps. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been exerted and employed about the upper part of the visible word; the light of heaven was kindled, and the firmament of heaven fixed: but now he descends to this lower world, the earth, which was designed for the children of men, designed both for their habitation and for their maintenance; and here we have an account of the fitting of it for both, and building of their house and the spreading of their table. 1:17), and who dwells in inaccessible light, 1 Tim. In addition to these text commentaries, you can review the available audio and video commentaries. 2. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. It signifies the original, or generation: fitly is this book so called, for it is a history of originals—the creation of the world, the entrance of sin and death into it, the invention of arts, the rise of nations, and especially the planting of the church, and the state of it in its early days. This book, in the Hebrew copies of the Bible, and by the Jewish writers, is generally called Bereshith, which signifies "in the beginning", being the first word of it; as the other four books of Moses are also called from their initial words. 119:130. 119:59. The earth, it seems, was in being before; but it was of no use, because it was under water. This firmament is not a wall of partition, but a way of intercourse. God’s image upon man consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, Eph. The best Genesis commentaries are listed below. The making of the fish and fowl, at first, v. 20, 21. 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. Our own reason shows us the wound, but nothing short of a divine revelation can discover to us a remedy to be confided in. The waters which had covered the earth were ordered to retire, and to gather into one place, namely, those hollows which were fitted and appointed for their reception and rest. This includes all that is visible above the earth, between it and the third heavens: the air, its higher, middle, and lower, regions—the celestial globe, and all the spheres and orbs of light above: it reaches as high as the place where the stars are fixed, for that is called here the firmament of heaven (v. 14, 15), and as low as the place where the birds fly, for that also is called the firmament of heaven, v. 20. See the difference between these two carefully observed, Deu. The narrative of it is introduced with something of solemnity, and a manifest distinction from the rest. Gen 1:1. Though afterwards he coveted forbidden fruit, for the sake of the wisdom and knowledge he promised himself from it, yet we never read that he coveted forbidden flesh. He has also treasures, or magazines, of snow and hail, which he hath reserved against the day of battle and war, Job 38:22, 23. And as the plain and practical expositors would not, for a world, say of the learned critics, There is no need of them; so, it is hoped, those eyes and heads will not say to the hands and feet, There is no need of you, 1 Co. 12:21. The waters, thus cleared, thus collected, and thus lodged, in their proper place, he called seas. Job 38:4. We have here the approbation and conclusion of the whole work of creation. Ps. These five books were, for aught we know, the first that ever were written; for we have not the least mention of any writing in all the book of Genesis, nor till God bade Moses write (Ex. but they complain that the well is deep, and they have nothing to draw with; how then shall they come by this living water? 1:5), and the Father of lights (Jam. It is owing to this blessing, which God commanded at first, that the race of mankind is still in being, and that as one generation passeth away another cometh. No more is meant than that they give light, Jer. 6. 17:14); and some think Moses himself never learned to write till God set him his copy in the writing of the ten Commandments upon the tables of stone. It is he that hears the heavens when they hear the earth, Hos. All the inferior powers were subject to the dictates and directions of the superior, without any mutiny or rebellion. If the light is good, how good is he that is the fountain of light, from whom we receive it, and to whom we owe all praise for it and all the services we do by it! 1:19), and a dark place indeed the world would be without the Bible. 7:29. The letter, either of law or gospel, profits little without the Spirit. That man was made in God’s image and after his likeness, two words to express the same thing and making each other the more expressive; image and likeness denote the likest image, the nearest resemblance of any of the visible creatures. Chapter 6. It is only some of God’s honour that is put upon man, who is God’s image only as the shadow in the glass, or the king’s impress upon the coin. In our Saviour’s distribution of the books of the Old Testament into the law, the prophets, and the psalms, or Hagiographa, these are the law; for they contain not only the laws given to Israel, in the last four, but the laws given to Adam, to Noah, and to Abraham, in the first. There is meat that endures to everlasting life; the Lord evermore give us this. Such as these stand in the posts of honour, and their praise is in all the churches: yet the labours of the vine-dressers and the husbandmen (2 Ki. Life is a wasting thing. This was not only the first day of the world, but the first day of the week. The dry land was made to appear, and emerge out of the waters, and was called earth, and given to the children of men. (2.) Study Genesis 2 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. 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. 7:1. Fruitfulness is the effect of God’s blessing and must be ascribed to it; the multiplying of the fish and fowl, from year to year, is still the fruit of this blessing. Of each day’s work (except the second) it was said that it was good, but now, it is very good. II. Enquiries of this kind I have here aimed to answer. 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. . 1:1) is of no use to us, or that the Old Testament is an almanac out of date; no, we are built upon the foundation of the prophets, as well as of the apostles, Christ himself being the corner-stone (Eph. Lord, open our eyes, that we may see the wondrous things both of thy law and gospel! His thoughts were easily brought and fixed to the best subjects, and there was no vanity nor ungovernableness in them. 16:2, 3. 10:17. 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. 14:26), that thus we may have some good word or other at hand for our use in our addresses to God and in our converse with men, in our resistance of Satan and in communing with our own hearts, and may be able, with the good householder, to bring out of this treasury things new and old, for the entertainment and edification both of ourselves and others. Davis, John D. Genesis and Semitic Tradition. In the new creation, the first thing wrought in the soul is light: the blessed Spirit captives the will and affections by enlightening the understanding, so coming into the heart by the door, like the good shepherd whose own the sheep are, while sin and Satan, like thieves and robbers, climb up some other way. 11:9), and work (Jn. He that made all sees all; he that made us sees us, Ps. 139:1–16. 5. Observe here, 1. If any thing will make a man of God perfect in this world, will complete both a Christian and a minister, and thoroughly furnish him for every good work, it must be this. III. Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister, Mt. These are the labours to which, according to my ability, I have here set my hand. The naming of it: He called the firmament heaven. The best and most honourable way of ruling is by giving light and doing good: those command respect that live a useful life, and so shine as lights. Genesis is a name borrowed from the Greek. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise. Semper habet aliquid relegentibus—However frequently we read it, we shall always meet with something new. 11:7); it rejoiceth the heart, Prov. God has, in the firmament of his power, chambers, store-chambers, whence he watereth the earth, Ps. The third day’s work is related in these verses—the forming of the sea and the dry land, and the making of the earth fruitful. It is the declared purpose of the Eternal Mind, in all the operations both of providence and grace, to magnify the law and to make it honourable (Isa. 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. To expound the term "beginning", of Christ, is altogether frivolous. For, (1.) 22. 2:23), and think of it, Ps. The “Top 10” list is based on aggregate reviews.. Thus many of God’s gifts are received in vain, because they are buried; make them to appear, and they become serviceable. 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. Commentary on Genesis 12:4,5 (Read Genesis 12:4,5) Expounding the scriptures was the most usual way of preaching in the first and purest ages of the church. 4:2. Observe, 1. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible. It was exactly as he designed it, and it was fit to answer the end for which he designed it. (2.) 1:21) we are sure; but who dare pretend to describe that inspiration? 8:16), and a stately golden candlestick the firmament of heaven is, from which these candles give light to all that are in the house. That the light which God willed, when it was produced, he approved of: God saw the light that it was good. 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. After six days, God ceased from all works of creation... View the entire commentary. Free Online Bible Commentaries on all Books of the Bible. The end is effectually obtained; such things are plainly supposed and taken for granted, and such things are expressly revealed and made known, as, being all put together, sufficiently inform us of all the truths and laws of the holy religion we are to believe, and be governed by. Like the first-born, it does, of all visible beings, most resemble its great Parent in purity and power, brightness and beneficence; it is of great affinity with a spirit, and is next to it; though by it we see other things, and are sure that it is, yet we know not its nature, nor can describe what it is, or by what way the light is parted, Job 38:19, 24. Man was to be a creature different from all that had been hitherto made. They are the stock on which the Christian church is grafted. 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. COVENANT. He had an habitual conformity of all his natural powers to the whole will of God. Good, for it is all agreeable to the mind of the Creator, just as he would have it to be; when the transcript came to be compared with the great original, it was found to be exact, no errata in it, not one misplaced stroke. 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. IV. The work of creation was a very good work. It was useful and profitable; the world, which now is a palace, would have been a dungeon without it. I. "In the beginning." It concerns us also to be mighty in the scriptures, as Apollos was (Acts 18:24), that is, to be thoroughly acquainted with the true intent and meaning of them, that we may understand what we read, and may not misinterpret or misapply it, but by the conduct of the blessed Spirit may be led into all truth (Jn. Commentary on Genesis 1:29,30 (Read Genesis 1:29,30) Herbs and fruits must be man's food, including corn, and all the products of the earth. Observe, The lights of heaven are the sun, moon, and stars; and all these are the work of God’s hands. 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. 74:16. While I was thus employing myself came out Mr. Burkitt’s Exposition, of the Gospels first, and afterwards of the Act and the Epistles, which met with very good acceptance among serious people, and no doubt, by the blessing of God, will continue to do great service to the church. 2:21, 22. (1.) The duty and wisdom of daily worshipping that God who made all these things, and made them to be that to us which they are. None knows the way of the Spirit, nor how the thoughts were formed in the heart of him that was inspired, any more than we know the way of the soul into the body, or how the bones are formed in the womb or her that is with child, Eccles. See Deu. That the scriptures of the Old and New Testament were purposely designed for our learning. His will complied readily and universally with the will of God, without reluctancy or resistance. Notice is here taken of the various sorts of fish and fowl, each after their kind, and of the great numbers of both that were produced, for the waters brought forth abundantly; and particular mention if made of great whales, the largest of fishes, whose bulk and strength, exceeding that of any other animal, are remarkable proofs of the power and greatness of the Creator. That which should make us thankful. 5:14. How may we accommodate it to some of the purposes of that divine and heavenly life which, by the grace of God, we are resolved to live? (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3). 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. . (3.) They then were accountable for no more light than they had; and we now are accountable for that greater light which we have in the gospel, by the help of which we may find much more of Christ in the Old Testament than they could. Natural light, no doubt, is of excellent use, as far as it goes; but it is necessary that there be a divine revelation, to rectify its mistakes, and make up its deficiencies, to help us out where the light of nature leaves us quite at a loss, especially in the way and method of man’s recovery from his lapsed state, and his restoration to his Maker’s favour; which he cannot but be conscious to himself of the loss of, finding, by sad experience, his own present state to be sinful and miserable. It should seem that of the rest of the creatures God made many couples, but of man did not he make one? This command he himself executed: God created great whales, etc. How Sin Came In Eden Lost and Restored. I. The lively faith of humble Christians understands this matter better than the elevated fancy of the greatest wits, Heb. The power of God’s providence preserves all things, as at first his creating power produced them. God said, Let us make man, and immediately it follows, So God created man; he performed what he resolved. 14:6, 7. Man, as soon as he was made, had the whole visible creation before him, both to contemplate and to take the comfort of. The glory and goodness, the beauty and harmony, of God’s works, both of providence and grace, as this of creation, will best appear when they are perfected. We have three things in this chapter:—I. We have before us that part of the Old Testament which we call the Pentateuch, or five books of Moses, that servant of the Lord who excelled all the other prophets, and typified the great prophet. I have therefore all along been brief upon that which is there most largely discussed, and have industriously declined, as much as I could, what is to be found there; for I would not actum agere—do what is done; nor (if I may be allowed to borrow the apostle’s words) boast of things made ready to our hand, 2 Co. 10:16. This, in a particular manner, we search the scriptures for—to find what they testify of Christ and eternal life, Jn. The Lord renew it upon our souls by his sanctifying grace! Noah was a just man seeking to please God and was blessed by Him with three sons. 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." Even the oldest books in the Bible refer to it (forexample, Exodus 3:15; Job 28:25-29). The earth was emptiness (v. 2), but now, by a word’s speaking, it has become full of God’s riches, and his they are still—his corn and his wine, his wool and his flax, Hos. 26:5. God’s own people are not exempted from these in this world; but it is their comfort that they are only waters under the heaven (there are none in heaven), and that they are all in the place that God has appointed them and within the bounds that he has set for them. Here, as before, 1. And, if he have leisure, he will find it of use to him to turn to the scriptures which are sometimes only referred to for brevity’s sake, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 4:19. How small are the remains of it, and how great the ruins of it! Particulars about the creation. That man was made last of all the creatures, that it might not be suspected that he had been, any way, a helper to God in the creation of the world: that question must be for ever humbling and mortifying to him, Where wast thou, or any of thy kind, when I laid the foundations of the earth? 3:4. 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. Well, let us give to God the glory of the continuance of these creatures to this day for the benefit of man. Good, for it is all for God’s glory; there is that in the whole visible creation which is a demonstration of God’s being and perfections, and which tends to beget, in the soul of man, a religious regard to him and veneration of him.
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