Marvelous, absolutely marvelous!But we get the more complex life forms that sort of are a little independent. So always it is. divine Creators and Makers in the plural number, ( Job 35:10 ) ( Psalms 149:2 *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. This is the prime key to the works of every ancient author, if we can only discover it. We did not evolve from other lower forms of life. De Opificio, p. 16. On the words "in our image, after our likeness" modern commentators have correctly observed, that there is no foundation for the distinction drawn by the Greek, and after them by many of the Latin Fathers, between (imago) and (similitudo), the former of which they supposed to represent the physical aspect of the likeness to God, the latter the ethical; but that, on the contrary, the older Lutheran theologians were correct in stating that the two words are synonymous, and are merely combined to add intensity to the thought: "an image which is like Us" (Luther); since it is no more possible to discover a sharp or well-defined distinction in the ordinary use of the words between and , than between and . Marvelous accident! We are examining now the sixth day of creation, the day when man appeared upon the earth. The insufficiency of their resources had been proved. Somehow, the earth's orbit was changed around the sun, and now it is three hundred and sixty-five years, nine hours, fifty-six minutes, nine and four-hundredths of a second. The order here is from the lowest to the highest. But there is more than this, though this be of exceeding interest; because we see with equal certainty and clearness why Jehovah-Elohim is introduced not before but here, and why man's becoming a living soul by the inbreathing of God was said here and not in the first chapter. 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. Man, being created in the image of God was created a self-determinant being. But what came in immediately, and what is traced throughout the Bible, it may be noted, is the present consequence in the government of God. [Note: Waltke, Genesis, p. The appearance he presents to an eye suited to contemplate him is his image. That man's creation was a more signal and immediate act of divine wisdom and power than that of the other creatures. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness " It is the kinship of humanity to God Himself that shines in this, a conception that is launched here and is never diminished until the God-Man Himself, "The Lamb standing as though it had been slain" (Revelation 5:6), is seen in the very midst of the throne of God! But "Adam," it is said, "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image." And when the pinecone dries, it begins to pop open, and the little seed falls free. Who was God talking to? God made but one male and one female, that all the nations of men might know themselves to be made of one blood, descendants from one common stock, and might thereby be induced to love one another. If she possesses all along with Him, it is because of her union with Him, not intrinsically. 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. one that had ruined the glory of God, as far as it rested upon him. However this is merely by the way, for it is evidently a matter of no great importance in itself, save that we should hold the entire account of Paradise to be historical in the strictest and fullest sense. Notwithstanding in the midst of the scene of desolation we hear Adam calling his wife's name "Eve" (ver. Moral relationship? all the more because of the chaste simplicity of the style and words. If men, and men too of ability and learning, have tortured the signs of its very perfection into proofs of defective and clashing documents, ridiculously combined by a man who did not perceive that he was editing not fables only but inconsistent fables, what can believers do but wonder at human blindness, and adore divine grace ' For themselves, with glowing gratitude they receive it as the precious word of God, where His love and goodness and truth shine in a way beyond all comparison, and yet meeting the mind and heart in the least, no less than in the most serious, wants that each day brings here below. In the day that God created man." Proud member The next chapter (Genesis 8:1-22) shows God's remembrance of Noah and every living thing. * Consequently we find that as man had hearkened to the voice of the siren, and had eaten of the tree of which he was commanded not to eat, the ground was cursed for him. The creation of man does not take place through a word addressed by God to the earth, but as the result of the divine decree, "We will make man in Our image, after our likeness," which proclaims at the very outset the distinction and pre-eminence of man above all the other creatures of the earth. So God created man in His own image; in the image . And this we may safely say, That he by whom God made the worlds, not only the great world, but man the little world, formed the human body, at the first, according to the platform he designed for himself in the fulness of time. The first and fourth days refer principally to the darkness on the face of the deep; the second and fifth to the disorder and emptiness of the aerial and aqueous elements; and the third and sixth to the similar condition of the land. But it is the more important because, when it is a question of the guilt of taking man's life, the ground is that he was made in God's image. There wouldn't be room for it to grow, there wouldn't be enough light, and so the seed needs to get out away from the mother pine a bit. Chapter 1. I can choose what I want. Last week we finished looking at verse 21, the reasons for, and the value of, learning to submit to one another in our marriages. Up until this point, God had said, "Let there be". God made heaven and earth in six days: it is never said He created heaven and earth in six days. And it is this unity between male and female, and between humanity and God, that is destroyed in the Fall described in Genesis 3." over the tame creatures, either for food, or clothing, or If we did not see it at once, this was merely because of our dullness. This accordingly is the ground taken, to which I refer as an instance of the perfectness of scripture, but at the same time of the profound and practical power of the truth of God. "Image" is a word taken from sensible things, and denotes likeness in outward form, while the material may be different. It may be observed, that the plural number is used, "let I have this little system in my eyes with the vitreous jelly on the backside that is taking these little pictures at the rate of about eighteen per second and transmitting the vibrations on into the brain by which my eyes are interpreting the world around me and making it understandable as the vibrations are coming into my brain, and all of it's unscrambling and interpretation as these little flash vibrations are bounced in at eighteen per second. The Jews sometimes say, that Adam and Eve were created in the likeness of the holy blessed God, and his Shechinah h; and they also speak i of Adam Kadmon the ancient Adam, as the cause of causes, of whom it is said, "I was as one brought up with him (or an artificer with him), Proverbs 8:30 and to this ancient Adam he said, "let us make man in our image, after our likeness": and again, "let us make man"; to whom did he say this? 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. Then (Genesis 4:1-26) we have a new scene, which opens with a change in the name of God. The fish, the fowl, are beneath the domestic cattle. 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 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. The preservation of the creatures which required the ark. Hence, when notice is here taken of man's formation, it is described (as all else is) in a manner quite distinct from that of Genesis 1:1-31; but that distinctiveness self-evidently is because of the moral relationship which the Spirit of God is here bringing before the reader. No wonder that total ruin speedily ensues. 28 And God blessed them, and God 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 upon the earth. Man alone therefore has what is commonly called an immortal soul. Meaning of Genesis 1:26. 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. Some writers have called the image of God mans "spiritual personality." 2. What dispensation could there be? (s) God commanded the water and the earth to bring forth other creatures: but of man he says, Let us make signifying that God takes counsel with his wisdom and virtue purposing to make an excellent work above all the rest of his creation. I make sounds by the use of the throat and the tongue and the teeth, and the roof of the mouth and so forth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female . Genesis 1:26. All evil is due to this as its spring; it begins with God as the object attacked or undermined. This was acquired (have you never known, or have you forgotten, the solemn fact?) F8; and they also speak F9 of Adam Here he gave them, 1. An inspired author could not have expressed himself differently from Moses without impairing the perfect beauty and accuracy of the truth. III. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 2. The first verse is not a summary. This gives occasion to the manifestation of a great difference among Noah's sons, and to the solemn words which the father uttered in the spirit of prophecy. Others who deem themselves more acute, but are doubly infatuated, say that God spoke of himself in the plural number, according to the custom of princes. As with the rest of the Bible, the book of Genesis was written in the everyday language of the people of the time. The flood ensues. For the view that the image of God includes the body, see Jonathan F. Henry, "Man in Gods Image: What Does it Mean?" The fact declares itself. But here I stop for the present. Undoubtedly there is teaching of the Spirit of God founded on the facts of revelation. The others were caused to live by the simple fact that God organized them according to His own will; but in man's case there was this essential difference, that he alone became a living soul by the inbreathing of Jehovah-Elohim. That explains why humans can actually imitate God's personality. Such is the birth of civil life in the family of Cain, where we find the discovery and advance of the delights of man; but, along with the progress of art and science, the introduction of polygamy. God created the rest of the universe in the first five days, and, "Then God said". Here man is at sea; but where he does arrive at conclusions, this at least is the common consent, as far as I know, of all who have given their minds to the study, that there are three, and only three, divisions into which nations properly diverge. Carmen Memorial. The account of the six days work, therefore, is the counterpart of that verse. 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. He had described what she was rather than who; it was only when sin had come in, and when others, had there been any, would have called her naturally the parent of death, that Adam (by what seems to be the guidance of God in faith) calls her rather the mother of the living. ], One writer sought to retain six literal days of creation and to harmonize them with an old age earth model, allowing a long period of time (possibly billions of years) between Genesis 1:2-3. over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree. In due time the ark rests upon Ararat, and then follows the strikingly beautiful incident of the raven and the dove, which has been often before us, and from which therefore we may pass on. The book is the account of the beginning of the earth, mankind, and God's dealings with man. Those who enter on them had better be cautious, and well weigh alleged facts, and above all their own conclusions, or those of other men. Then we find the waters caused to bring forth abundantly "the moving creature that hath life." There is not a speech nor a language" (Psa 19:1-3). The Bible demonstrates this order of importance from the outset by fitting the story of creation into a mere week, into the opening page of a 1,000-page Bible.The Bible was never intended to be a scientific textbook. our For God passes rapidly over the early account and history of the globe I might almost say, hastening to that condition of the earth in which it was to be made the habitation of mankind; whereon also God was to display His moral dealings, and finally His own Son, with the fruitful consequences of that stupendous event, whether in rejection or in redemption. 9-54, for a discussion of the subject.]. a. (89) In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order. The wisdom of the inspired writer's silence will be evident to a spiritual mind, and the more, the more it is reflected on. This chapter is also to be read with wonder and adoration by man; as he finds himself to be constituted lord of the earth, next in rank under the Creator of all, formed in the image of his Maker, and therefore capable not only of studying the works of nature, but of contemplating and reverently communing with the Author of nature. Kisah ini pada pokoknya berasal dari tradisi Yahwista, kecuali Kej 26:34-35 (Para Imam). We can easily see the propriety of this. In his purity and rectitude. 27-27; Oswald Allis, God Spake by Moses, p. b. As a notice of God's covenant with the earth, I may just refer, in passing, to the establishment of the bow in the cloud as the sign of the mercy of Elohim (verses Genesis 9:12-17). The human relationship between man and woman thus reflects Gods own relationship with Himself. "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah-Elohim had not caused it to rain upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the ground. The heavens were in no such state of chaos: the earth was. Is it credible that animals may be killed but that man may not be killed because his stature is slightly different? By the blessing in Genesis 1:28, God not only confers upon man the power to multiply and fill the earth, as upon the beasts in Genesis 1:22, but also gives him dominion over the earth and every beast. [Note: Sailhamer, "Exegetical Notes . It is a mistake to include the world before that event in the time of dispensations. It may be observed, that the plural number is used, "let them", which shows that the name "man" is general in the preceding clause, and includes male and female, as we find by the following verse man was created: and over the cattle, and over all the earth; over the tame creatures, either for food, or clothing, or carriage, or for all of them, some of them for one thing, and some for another; and over all the wild beasts of the earth, which seem to be meant by the phrase, "over all the earth"; that is, over all the beasts of the earth, as appears by comparing it with Genesis 1:24 so as to keep them in awe, and keep them off from doing them any damage: and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; to make use of it as should seem convenient for them. The word of God presents to the simplest Christian the perfect account of the matter. Such was not the usual style of monarchs in the ancient East. The Second man, not the first, is the object of promise. Man was to be a creature different from all that had been hitherto made. On the first the darkness on the face of the earth is removed; on the fourth that on the face of the sky. over the 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). What does He do then? Man, as soon as he was made, had the whole visible creation before him, both to contemplate and to take the comfort of. Caesarius and Epiphanius held it to be the Danube, the Ganges, and the Indus, and that after an extraordinary course in the south it joined the ocean near Cadiz! Further, we now hear of the garden that was planted by Jehovah-Elohim eastward in Eden, where He put the man whom He had formed. "The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah-Elohim had made.". "And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon earth." It is the language of One who has special relationships with Noah and with his family. 2. Especially when associated with the singular "his" and "him" in verse 27. The distinction drawn between (in the image of God created He him) and (as man and woman created He them) must not be overlooked. Since the image of God had been destroyed in us by the fall, we may judge from its restoration what it originally had been. On the third the plants rooted in the soil are made; on the sixth the animals that move freely over it are brought into existence. Hi, this is Pastor Ken. Philosophy believes neither, in a vain effort to account for all by what is, or rather appears; for it knows nothing, not even the present, as it ought to know. 1 In the a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In conclusion, the food of both man and beast is pointed out in Genesis 1:29, Genesis 1:30, exclusively from the vegetable kingdom. God, and God alone, can communicate the truth. But "Elohim" is the plural tense for God. God could introduce him, and could leave the heart to feel the rightness of saying no more about him than was necessary. Christians, therefore, properly contend, from this testimony, that there exists a plurality of Persons in the Godhead. Each severally the man, the woman, the serpent stand evidently convicted by the presence of Jehovah-Elohim. 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. What God looks like; none of us know. As they stand, they are in exact harmony. 7. the cause of causes said to "`jod', he, `vau', he"; that is, to Jehovah, which is in the midst of the ten numerations. But the two trees, representing the two principles, which man is ever confounding or obliterating one for the other, are in the scripture as in truth wholly distinct. The sun, moon and stars, previously hidden, now became clearly visible. 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. Fifth, it is in keeping, as far as it goes, with the facts of botany, zoology, and ethnology. John 1:1, which affirms that the Word was God, and in the beginning with God, and that without Him there was nothing made that hath been made, supports the thought that both Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit (revealed in Genesis 1:2 as active in the creation) should be understood as included in "us" and "our" here. [Note: Hamilton, p. And it's not a very big kind of a computer. So with Cain here "and if thou doest not well;" and such was the fact. 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." 26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour and a favour to him. The image of God consists, therefore, in the spiritual personality of man, though not merely in unity of self-consciousness and self-determination, or in the fact that man was created a consciously free Ego; for personality is merely the basis and form of the divine likeness, not its real essence. God making me in His image has made me with this beautiful capacity to love. The Bible takes a different view. The three persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, consult about it and concur in it, because man, when he was made, was to be dedicated and devoted to Father, Son and Holy Ghost. (85). Unto God? And the same was in the beginning with God, and all things were made by Him"(Joh 1:1). The utmost possible care appears in the statement. The insertion of the substantive verb, as has been remarked, expresses no doubt a condition past as compared with what follows, but pointedly not said to be contemporaneous with what preceded, as would have been implied in its omission; but what interval lay between, or why such a desolation ensued, is not stated. 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." And the evening and the morning were the fifth day (Gen 1:15-23). Isaiah 6:8). The Fall obscured but did not obliterate the image of God in man. But, it doesn't seem to matter, cause a couple of weeks later, their kids take off and they fly right to Hawaii. our image, after our likeness": and again, "let us make man"; to I don't know. The text tells us he was the work of ELOHIM, the Divine Plurality, marked here more distinctly by the plural pronouns US and OUR; and to show that he was the masterpiece of God's creation, all the persons in the Godhead are represented as united in counsel and effort to produce this astonishing creature. 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. Again, let us note the confronting of the serpent, not with man, who always falls under Satan's power, but with Christ, who always conquers. 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. The following notes suggest one way in which scientific knowledge, far from causing us to doubt the Genesis creation story, may in fact give us a more meaningful view of it. United as one humanity, male and female are one with God and his heavenly court. Just as little ground is there for regarding the plural here and in other passages (Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:7; Isaiah 6:8; Isaiah 41:22) as reflective, an appeal to self; since the singular is employed in such cases as these, even where God Himself is preparing for any particular work (cf. 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. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel, and to his offering. This cannot be, because a plurality of qualities exists in everything, without at all leading to the application of the plural number to the individual, and because such a plurality does not warrant the expression, "let us make." The cheaper edition published in 2010 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language is the abridged concise edition. I know it's night because it's dark, but I don't see the moon, because there is a cloud cover that prohibits me seeing the moon or prohibits my seeing the sun.Now, this fog, cloud cover could have been removed on the fourth day, so that the "light holder" becomes visible. Ed. All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. "The tri-unity of God is found in the first verse of the Bible, "in the beginning God," the word in Hebrew is "Elohim". Its insertion forbids the thought, and to speak plainly, convicts those who so understand it either of ignorance, or at the least of inattention. Third, it is equally consistent with human science. 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! 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. You say, "oh, they remember the way they flew out. Chapter 13 Lot's choice and Abram's part. What can be more consistent? Those who often bring up Genesis 1:26 hope we will won't be able to provide a good answer. There it is plain that the writer gives a summary. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Not only giving me the capacity of choice, He also respects the choice that I make. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. If man can discover such facts by other means, be it so. - The relation of man to the creature is now stated. Genesis 1:26. On the first day light is. Give up the immortality of the soul, and you deny the ground of that relationship, man's special moral responsibility to God. And the surf would sort of cover it with sand, and it had enough water inside to support the roots until they could get deep enough to get their own water source. . This passage has intrigued Bible students for millennia. Alas! In fact any other thought (such as the law) is not only contrary to scripture, but when you closely and seriously think of it as a believer, it will be seen to be an impossible state of things then. It is said that the name of the first river is the Pison, and of the other the Gihon. 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. And I wouldn't mind the final chapter being written up there anyhow. [Note: See Tremper Longman III, Song of Songs, pp. The word of God is before them. He took then, it is said, "of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl." 1:24 ) so as to keep them in awe, and keep them off from Let them have dominion.The plural here shows that we have to do not with Adam and Eve, but with the human race generally. So the Holy Spirit, basically, is the author of all the scripture and who He was inspiring is of no import to us.So next week, we'll continue with chapter two. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. and why is thy countenance fallen? If mans physical being is in the image of God we would immediately wonder what, if any organs, God possesses. They build their nests, they lay the eggs, they hatch their young. But there is enough in man's amplification to point to what is stated here in a few simple words of truth. ], "Image" and "likeness" are essentially synonymous terms. It is not concerned with the sort of investigation that modern science is concerned with. In Assyrian the name for man is also adamu, or admu. Adam was not androgynous (i.e., two individuals joined physically like Siamese twins) or bisexual (i.e., one individual possessing both male and female sexual organs). Cyrus, "The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth" Ezra 1:2. 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