If they were not, it could not be said, in OUR image, and it does not appear from any part in the sacred writings that any creature but man was made in the image of God. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon , over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. 119. I'm so glad that I know Him. [Note: Hamilton, p. The superior trinity being Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the inferior trinity of man being body, soul and spirit. He contemplates the objects around him, marks their qualities and relations, conceives and resolves upon the end to be attained, and endeavors to make all things within his reach work together for its accomplishment. Both unite in this, that, as they were made of dust, to the dust they must return. In his place and authority: Let us make man in our image, and let him have dominion. When man in Paradise was forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he broke the command immediately as far as appears, the first day. Thus man was rich before he was born. - Man is a new species, essentially different from all other kinds on earth. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. All is consistent in revelation, and nowhere else. God was now producing a spirit, and a spirit, too, formed after the perfections of his own nature. Man will rise and live again. Meanwhile the earth was drying and land became visible. He begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. The word Adam, which we translate man, is intended to designate the species of animal, as chaitho, marks the wild beasts that live in general a solitary life; behemah, domestic or gregarious animals; and remes, all kinds of reptiles, from the largest snake to the microscopic eel. So designed, so constructed, that you can fly off of that page, and just the wide variety! 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. And let them have dominion (92) Here he commemorates that part of dignity with which he decreed to honor man, namely, that he should have authority over all living creatures. Now as we get into the creation of the animal-type of life in the fifth day, first of all, the life forms in the water, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly," and my, the teeming life forms in the water! But for that day we must wait, the day of eternity of "the new heavens and the new earth." He has made the sea his highway to the ends of the earth, the stars his pilots on the pathless ocean, the sun his bleacher and painter, the bowels of the earth the treasury from which he draws his precious and useful metals and much of his fuel, the steam his motive power, and the lightning his messenger. It is an awesome thing to realize that God does respect my choice.Now, He does speak to influence my choice because He loves me, and He knows what is best for me. This, as suggesting an external likeness, may refer to mans reason, free-will, self-consciousness, and so on. 1. Carmen Memorial. God's chief emotional attribute is love, so God created us with a capacity to love. This passage has intrigued Bible students for millennia. When God made Adam from the dust of the earth, he was the closing chord of God's magnificent symphony. As to how, when, and why it was, there is silence. You can study it yourself by clicking the Scripture itself then scrolling down page. The context determines which is the correct meaning in any . besides, the phrase itself shows that the second term was added for the sake of explanation, Let us make, he says, man in our image, according to our likeness, that is, that he may be like God, or may represent the image of God. The land also experienced this development of animal life, till it too became full of all kinds of creatures. the creation, and much less in the more noble part of it: nor are Check out this great listen on Audible.com. It was not barely as He who had created all, but the God that was in special relationship with man Jehovah. May one not say again who beforehand would have thought of ways so truly and self-evidently divine? Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.". ii. In any other book, in a book written by mere man, (need one hesitate to say?) 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. ), the Syriac rendering must be dismissed as nothing more than a conjecture, and the Masoretic text be understood in the following manner. It was impossible that such a ground could be rightly taken longer; but so Cain did not feel. Observe. "The earth was without form and void." 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. God constantly refused that man should make any kind of a likeness of Him. When God made man, when Jehovah-Elohim breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, man had no knowledge of things as right or wrong in themselves. God Himself has touched it but curtly. Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6). No such interval, however, could be absolutely necessary, as the Creator could as easily establish the luminous connection of the different orbs of heaven as summon into being the element of light itself. There is some disagreement among Old Testament scholars regarding what distinguishes biblical poetry from biblical prose. What is the ground of God's dealings now? Afterwards God tells Noah to come forth he and all the other creatures. It was addressed to the serpent. Isaiah 40:26 tells us that God made the stars and calls them by name. "Them" indicates this generic significance. Those who often bring up Genesis 1:26 hope we will won't be able to provide a good answer. (Genesis 1:6-7, 9, 11, 14-15). Another notion still more general, and only less gross, though certainly not so serious in what it involves, is that God created matter in the beginning according to verse 2, in a state of confusion or "chaos," as men say. But this made the want so much the more evident, of which Jehovah-Elohim takes notice, of a partner for Adam's affections and life, one that might be before him, as it is said: "And Jehovah-Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam.'' This elementary truth is of immense importance at the present moment. - The relation of man to the creature is now stated. There is not a speech nor a language" (Psa 19:1-3). When it says that God sits above the circle of the earth (Isaiah 40:22), it does not mean that he sits in space somewhere above the horizon, but that he is the sovereign Lord of the universe. And if you're expecting to see Him with shoulder-length hair and a beard, and all, you may be, you may not even recognize Him. We see why that ought to be. But it is an old story in this world, though a new thing for professing members and ministers of Christ, to take pride in putting scorn on divine revelation. b. He has appointed them rulers over the earthly creation (see 1:27-28).Without the image of God within them, people would not (according to the biblical definition) be human. Yet, that he often keeps his hand as if closed is to be imputed to our sins. "Come thou into the ark," says He; "for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." The more expensive edition published in 2013 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: Complete and Unabridged is the full version. 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. We pray, Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11), but we do not expect God to work instantaneously and drop food from heaven on to our plates. Others proceed with a little more subtlety, who, though they do not imagine God to be corporeal, yet maintain that the image of God is in the body of man, because his admirable workmanship there shines brightly; but this opinion, as we shall see, is by no means consonant with Scripture. In this new section accordingly it is written, "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created [going up to the first], in the day* [here the writer comes down] that Jehovah-Elohim made the earth and the heavens." All the delays of God now proceed on the fact that the first man is in sin. Hitherto God has been introduced simply as commanding; now, when he approaches the most excellent of all his works, he enters into consultation. There may be some significance . And so you have the "EPJ" or the "JEP" concepts of how many authors of Genesis, and somebody's even thrown in an "I" somewhere there. Almost every word gives evidence of it. Ed. And when the pinecone dries, it begins to pop open, and the little seed falls free. This apparently means that a relationship of close fellowship can exist between God and man that is unlike the relationship of God with the rest of his creation. The name of God, not just being "Elohim" as it is in chapter one, but more personal because we are dealing with more the creation of man, and we are being given details of the creation of man in chapter two. So, that seems to lend credence to the "gap theory" that the heavens and the earth were created in verse one, this is an account of re-creation.Now the fog cloud's removed and the sun and the moon becoming visible and are now used to mark off years and days and months; used as time indicators and the greater light to rule the day, the lesser light holder to rule the night. 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. 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. Scripture describes it, and mentions two rivers which unquestionably exist at the present day. In chapter 2, we have a flash-back and more explanation about the events on the sixth day. Now what did He set the seventh day apart for? Sermon Bible Commentary. co-workers with God in creation F7: and man being the principal On the contrary, we have all read these chapters in the Bible, and we may have read them as believers too, without seeing their immense scope and profound accuracy all at once. What can be more consistent? What was the ground of God's delays in the previous time? Man, the race, became simply outcasts morally nothing else from that day till after the flood. And those instinctive abilities in the birds!I'm always fascinated by that little bird in Hawaii that goes up into the Aleutian chain in order to mate. But, really, they're not following the same path, so that argument's sort of shot down, because, really, the parents decide to leave for Hawaii before the kids are able to fly that far. But I often wonder why God made such weird-looking fish, in such variety, and then the fabulous colors! The land, as understood by the ancient author, may be limited to that portion of the earths surface which was known to antediluvian man. First, It exhibits the consistency of the whole narrative in itself. What scripture gives here or elsewhere seems to me altogether at variance with such a thought. Men have fancied contradictions; they have fallen back on the old resource of opposed documents put together. I don't, I want God to leave me alone!" I don't want God around me! At first it sounds strange that a day of human self-exaltation should be equally characterised by as strong a desire to deny the special breath of God for his soul, and degrade him to the pedigree of an ape! 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. Our first father, Adam, was confined to one wife; and, if he had put her away, there was no other for him to marry, which plainly intimated that the bond of marriage was not to be dissolved at pleasure. She thought her first-born a great gain, for such is the meaning of the name "Cain." Finally, a literal interpretation seems not only contradictory to the rest of Scripture, and unlikely, but also inappropriate, Gardener aptly observed: But our anatomy and physiology is demanded by our terrestrial habitat, and quite inappropriate to the one who inhabits eternity. For these reasons, theologians have concluded that the statement in Genesis 1:26-28 must be metaphorical of mans spiritual or immaterial nature." The sun, moon and stars, previously hidden, now became clearly visible. All this is an added account. 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