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Genesis 1 — Overview
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,…
Genesis 1 — Overview
Genesis 1:1, God creates heaven and earth; Genesis 1:3, the light; Genesis 1:6, the firmament; Genesis 1:9, separates the dry land; Genesis 1:14, forms the sun, moon, and stars; Genesis 1:20, fishes and fowls; Genesis…
Genesis 1 — Overview
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…
Genesis 1:1-2
In these verses we have the work of creation in its epitome and in its embryo. I. In its epitome, v. 1, where we find, to our comfort, the first article of our creed, that God the Father Almighty is the Maker of…
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, Bereshith, is neither "from eternity," as in John 1:1; nor "in wisdom" (Chaldee paraphrase), as if parallel with Proverbs 3:19 and Psalms 104:24; nor "by Christ," who, in Colossians 1:18, is…
Genesis 1:1
The visible universe. I. ONE, yet NOT SIMPLE. 1. One. In age, origin, and nature one, "the heavens and the earth" also constitute one vast system. Cohering physically through the force of gravitation, which, in its…
Genesis 1:1-2
EXPOSITION I. THAT this initial section is not history is apparent from the circumstance that the occurrences it describes belong to a period of time which antedates the dawn of history. That it is not science is…
Genesis 1:1
Numbers 1:21, Numbers 1:42, Numbers 2:28, Numbers 4:36, Numbers 7:17, Numbers 7:73, Numbers 10:14, Numbers 26:51, Numbers 31:32, Numbers 35:4; 2 Chronicles 9:1; Ezra 1:11; Ecclesiastes 11:1; Ezekiel 43:14; Deuteronomy…
Genesis 1:2
And the earth. Clearly the earth referred to in the preceding verse, the present terrestrial globe with its atmospheric firmament, and not simply "the land" as opposed to "the skies" (Murphy); certainly not "the…
Genesis 1:2
Chaos an emblem of the unrenewed soul. I. WITHOUT ORDER: existing in a state of spiritual ruin, and requiting a special process of rearrangement to evolve symmetry and beauty from its confusion (2혻Corinthians 5:16).…
Genesis 1:2
without: Job 26:7; Isaiah 45:18; Jeremiah 4:23; Nahum 2:10 Spirit: Job 26:14; Psalms 33:6, Psalms 104:30; Isaiah 40:12-14
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void,.... It was not in the form it now is, otherwise it must have a form, as all matter has; it was a fluid matter, the watery parts were not separated from the earthy ones; it was…
Genesis 1:3-5
We have here a further account of the first day's work, in which observe, 1. 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…
Genesis 1:3
God: Psalms 33:6, Psalms 33:9, Psalms 148:5; Matthew 8:3; John 11:43 Let: Job 36:30, Job 38:19; Psalms 97:11, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 118:27; Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 60:19; John 1:5, John 1:9; John 3:19; 2 Corinthians 4:6;…
Genesis 1:3
And God said,.... This phrase is used, nine times in this account of the creation; it is admired by Longinus the Heathen in his treatise "of the Sublime", as a noble instance of it; and it is most beautifully…
Genesis 1:4
that: Genesis 1:10, Genesis 1:12, Genesis 1:18, Genesis 1:25, Genesis 1:31; Ecclesiastes 2:13, Ecclesiastes 11:7 the light from the darkness: Heb. between the light and between the darkness
Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good,.... Very pleasant and delightful, useful and beneficial; that is, he foresaw it would be good, of great service, as Picherellus interprets it; for as yet there were no…
Genesis 1:5
and: Genesis 8:22; Psalms 19:2, Psalms 74:16, Psalms 104:20; Isaiah 45:7; Jeremiah 33:20; 1 Corinthians 3:13; Ephesians 5:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:5 And the evening and the morning were: Heb. And the evening was, and the…
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night,.... Either by the circulating motion of the above body of light, or by the rotation of the chaos on its own axis towards it, in the space of twenty four…
Genesis 1:6-8
We have here an account of the second day's work, the creation of the firmament, in which observe, 1. The command of God concerning it: Let there be a firmament, an expansion, so the Hebrew word signifies, like…
Genesis 1:6
Day two. The work of this day consisted in the formation of that immense gaseous ocean, called the atmosphere, by which the earth is encircled. And God said, Let there be a firmament (rakiya, an expand, from rakah, to…
Genesis 1:6-8
EXPOSITION
Genesis 1:6
Let there: Genesis 1:14, Genesis 1:20, Genesis 7:11-12; Job 26:7-8, Job 26:13, Job 37:11, Job 37:18, Job 38:22-26; Psalms 19:1, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 33:9; Psalms 104:2, Psalms 136:5-6, Psalms 148:4, Psalms 150:1;…
Genesis 1:6
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,.... On which the Spirit of God was sitting and moving, Ge 1:2 part of which were formed into clouds, and drawn up into heaven by the force of the body…