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Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:14-19
In the fourth day's work, the creation of the sun, moon, and stars is accounted for. All these are the works of God. The stars are spoken of as they appear to our eyes, without telling their number, nature, place, size,…
The Creation. (b. c. 4004.)
THE CREATION. (B. C. 4004.) This is the history of the fourth day's work, the creating of the sun, moon, and stars, which are here accounted for, not as they are in themselves and in their own nature, to satisfy the cur…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:14-19
EXPOSITION Genesis 1:14, Genesis 1:15 Day four. With this day begins the second half of the creative week, whose works have a striking correspondence with the labors of the first. Having perfected the main structural ar…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:14-19
The fourth day. Notice?? I. GOD PREPARES HEAVEN AND EARTH FOR MAN. Light needed for the vegetable world. But when the higher life is introduced, then there is an order which implies intelligence and active rational exis…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:16
The celestial luminaries. I. Display the DIVINE WISDOM. "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Psalms 19:1). M. Comte believed they declared no other glory than that of Hipparchus, Kepler, Newton, and their successors.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights. Perhaps no part of the material universe more irresistibly demands a supreme Intelligence as its only proper origin and cause. "Elegantissima haecce solis, planetarum et cometarum compages…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:19
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. The Scripture references to this day's work are both numerous and instructive. The Hebrew writers supply no information as to the astronomical theories which were pre…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:20-25
God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and as curious, seem to have been part of this day's work. The Creator's wisd…
The Creation. (b. c. 4004.)
THE CREATION. (B. C. 4004.) Each day, hitherto, has produced very noble and excellent beings, which we can never sufficiently admire; but we do not read of the creation of any living creature till the fifth day, of whic…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:20-23
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:20
Day five. The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this filled with their respective inhabitants. And God said. Nature never makes an onward movement, in the sense of an absolutely new departure, unle…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:20-22
The mystery of life. I. ITS ORIGIN. 1. Not dead matter. Scripture, equally with science, represents life as having a physical basis; but, unlike modern evolutionists, never confounds vital force with the material mechan…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:20-23
The fifth day. I. LIVE UNDER THE BLESSING OF GOD. 1. Abundance. Swarming waters, swarming air? preparing for the swarming earth. "Be fruitful, and multiply." The absence of all restraint because as yet the absence of si…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:21
Day six. Like day three, this is distinguished by a double creative act, the production of the higher or land animals and the creation of man, of the latter of which it is perhaps permissible to see a mute prediction in…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:21
And God created (bara, is in Genesis 1:1, to indicate the introduction of an absolutely new thing, viz; the principle of animal life) great whales. Tanninim, from tanan; Greek, ?琯菅챙 館?; Latin, tendo; Sansc; tan, to stre…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:23
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. If of the previous creative days geological science has only doubtful traces, of this it bears irrefragable witness. When the first animal life was Introduced upon our…
The Creation. (b. c. 4004.)
THE CREATION. (B. C. 4004.) We have here the first part of the sixth day's work. 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 cat…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:24-31
The sixth day. We pass from the sea and air to the earth. We are being led to man. Notice?? I. THE PREPARATION IS COMPLETE. Before the earth receives the human being, it brings forth all the other creatures, and God see…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:24-31
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:25
And God made (asah, not beta, the principle of life being not now introduced for the first time, as in Genesis 1:21) the beast of the earth (the chayyah) after his kind, and cattle (behemah) after their kind, and every…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 1:26-28
Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour and a favour to him. 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 i…
The Creation. (b. c. 4004.)
THE CREATION. (B. C. 4004.) 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. Observe, I. That man was…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:26
The importance assigned in the Biblical record to the creation of man is indicated by the manner in which it is introduced. And God said, Let us make man. Having already explained the significance of the term Elohim, as…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 1:27
So (or and) God created (bara, as in Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:21, q.v.) man (literally; the Adam referred to in Genesis 1:26) in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. The thre…