All Commentaries Videos Images Devotionals Other Translations Sermons Related Scriptures Podcasts Blogs. Genesis 1:26 Parallel Verses [ See commentary ] Genesis 1:26, NIV: Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' Genesis 1:26, ESV: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. The text we are studying for Sunday, September 16 is Genesis 1:26-31 + 2:4-7.This is that portion of the creation story or stories in Genesis 1 & 2 that deals with the creation of adam, which is variously translated (in the NRSV, anyway) as "humankind" (Genesis 1:26 & 27) and as "man" (Genesis 2:7).This means we're skipping over the institution of the Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3), and . It is not "And in the day." the words spoken after the manner of kings, as Saadiah, using the Free standard shipping with $35 orders. There was no dispensation, properly so called, before it. Hence the believer finds not the slightest difficulty. 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. It has nothing to do with moral relationships. 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 plant forms of course, are necessarily rooted. There was to be a mind in him, a spirit capable of the knowledge of God with the absence of all evil. "And God said, Let us " The plural word [~'Elohiym] is used here; and the most logical understanding of it is that of seeing in it a foreshadowing of the doctrine of the Trinity revealed ages afterward in the N.T. b. We might with interest pass through the account of the various days, and mark the wisdom of God in each; but I forbear to dwell on such details now, saying a word here and there on the goodness of God apparent throughout. What is the ground of God's dealings now? The last is Philo's explanation: ( equals angels). Not a word of this is in the first chapter. See Genesis 3:22. JANUARY 5 TODAY'S READING IN THE ONE YEAR BIBLE - GENESIS 11-13:4; MATTHEW 5:1-26; PSALM 5:1-12; PROVERBS 1:24-28 Commentary written and read by Pastor David K. MacAdam. The story is recorded as if someone were describing creation, not from somewhere in outer space, but from his dwelling place on earth. The third chapter is indeed a continuation of the second properly enough made into a separate chapter, but still its sequel simply. Paul says that we are transformed into the image of God by the gospel. And hence we infer what was the end for which all things were created; namely, that none of the conveniences and necessaries of life might be wanting to men. It put a waterproof husk around itself. Man alone, as deriving that which gave him the breath of life not from his body but from the breath of Jehovah-Elohim, gives an account to God. What was the ground of God's delays in the previous time? It is not, but rather of moral relationship. They leave room consequently for a state or states of the earth long before either man or time, as man measures it. The condition of man was altogether different then from what it became immediately after. Nor indeed is such dealing according to the revealed nature of God. There was no fear then. This sentence is not translated either in the French or Old English version. 1. The narrative of it is introduced with something of solemnity, and a manifest distinction from the rest. "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." A day in which we acknowledge the Creator; it's set apart for the recognition of the Creator, as He has so left such ample evidence of Himself in His creation.Now later on, as God calls a nation of people, a separate people to Himself, we will be, we will find Him giving them a law for the seventh day; a covenant between God and Israel forever. ], "Us" is probably a plural of intensification (see my comment on Genesis 1:1 above), though some regard it as a plural of self-deliberation (cf. 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). Why this was, how it was, God has not here explained. Being made in Gods image, human beings are unique in Gods creation. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so (Gen 1:9-11). If she possesses all along with Him, it is because of her union with Him, not intrinsically. The believer can readily understand how Noah was divinely led to pronounce a just malediction on Canaan. You cannot, as a rule, anticipate facts; you cannot discern the truth beforehand. 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. Genesis 26:1, ESV: Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham.And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. Flesh and spirit, heaven and earth, must be put together in him, and he must be allied to both worlds. And chapter one was written by the "Elohistic"; chapter two by the "Jehovistic." Unto whom? Although we are a "little lower than the angels" it is the angels who have the job of ministering to the people who will inherit salvation. And you just look around, God'll speak to you through the grass, through the vegetables, through the flowers, through the trees. By the application of the term "good" to everything that God made, and the repetition of the word with the emphasis "very" at the close of the whole creation, the existence of anything evil in the creation of God is absolutely denied, and the hypothesis entirely refuted, that the six days' work merely subdued and fettered an ungodly, evil principle, which had already forced its way into it. Since the image of God had been destroyed in us by the fall, we may judge from its restoration what it originally had been. 1:24 ) so as to keep them in awe, and keep them off from You've got something over me. And the common distinction is, that image exists in the substance, likeness in the accidents of anything. Unfortunately, this has not been made clear enough. And Elohim, it is said, "shall enlarge Japhet, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem." Cain, as it is said, went out from His presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod; a son is born in due time who builds a city called after his name. I merely use these scriptural facts to shew what seems to me the truth that "sin" here does not refer to the specific offering for it, but rather to that which was proved by evil conduct. Noah was undoubtedly; but it is not always, nor here, the aim to draw attention to what was special. If a promise to any, it was to the woman's Seed, the last Adam, not to the first, who was just sentenced with Eve. Being created after the image of God, God created me with a capacity to choose. The Spirit of God has acted quite otherwise. 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. The author passes on from the cattle to the entire earth, and embraces all the animal creation in the expression, "every moving thing () that moveth upon the earth," just as in Genesis 1:28, "every living thing upon the earth." It is the truth, and in such a form and depth as man himself could not have discerned. The water systems are all there, the animals, and now man to rule over it. are not of God's privy council, nor were concerned in any part of "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! The word light in Hebrew is "or". On the other hand, man has potential and it is unlimited in amount and variety. Thus it is seen at once that, instead of these wonderful communications being merely earlier and later legends put together by a still more modern editor, who tried to make something complete by stringing together what did not aptly fit, on the contrary, it is the Spirit of God who gives us various sides of the truth, each falling under the title and style suitable to God, according to that which was in hand. Chapter 13 Lot's choice and Abram's part. "And Jehovah-Elohim commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day," etc. "`aleph', he, `jod', he", that is, , "I am that I am, Exodus 3:14 and he that says let us make, is Jehovah; I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God: and three jods testify concerning him, that there is none above him, nor any below him, but he is in the middle: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air; that is, to catch them, and eat them; though in the after grant of food to man, no mention as yet is made of any other meat than the herbs and fruits of the earth; yet what can this dominion over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon them? At the same time, it was so far involved in the effects of the fall, that the natural decay of the different animals was changed into a painful death or violent end. It is not concerned with the sort of investigation that modern science is concerned with. Man is to eat of "every seed-bearing herb on the face of all the earth, and every tree on which there are fruits containing seed," consequently of the productions of both field and tree, in other words, of corn and fruit; the animals are to eat of "every green herb," i.e., of vegetables or green plants, and grass. It recognizes, as far as can be expected, the relative importance of the heavens and the earth, the existence of the heavenly bodies from the beginning of time, the total and then the partial absence of light from the face of the deep, as the local result of physical causes. Professor Davidson, On the plural form of the word Elohim. "Likeness" is a more general term, indicating resemblance in any quality, external or internal. "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 birds of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth upon the earth. By no means. Psalms 8:5. But nothing softened the roused and irritated spirit of Cain. What more important fact about God and man would be necessary if the covenant at Sinai were, in fact, to be a real relationship? III. Take, for instance, the way in which the book of Genesis opens. The Statement before us may look at first unaccountable; but when carefully weighed and reflected on, the propriety of it becomes manifest. 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. God speaks with the peculiar appropriateness which suits the new occasion, in contradistinction from what we have seen elsewhere. Man is the image of God by virtue of his spiritual nature. When we begin to enter into its real meaning, and hold fast that which is clearly the intended truth, the theory of Elohistic and Jehovistic annalists, with their redaction, vanishes into its own nothingness. The distinction drawn between (in the image of God created He him) and (as man and woman created He them) must not be overlooked. Thus it is that whether it be the Old Testament or New, one half (speaking now in a general way) consists of history. Marvelous is His creative genius as you really look at the various life forms.And the earth brought forth grass, and [vegetable or] herb-yielding seed after his kind, and tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. The more expensive edition published in 2013 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: Complete and Unabridged is the full version. Notwithstanding God maintained the place that belonged to the elder brother. They may want to, and may bring disaster upon themselves as a result (as seen in the story of their original disobedience; see notes on 2:8-17, 3:1-24 below), but they cannot destroy the image of God. All right, if He then doesn't leave me alone, He's not respecting my choice. His will complied readily and universally with the will of God, without reluctancy or resistance. "And Noah," it is written in verse Genesis 8:20, "builded an altar." Genesis 1:26-28. What part of the land was submerged when the new soil emerged from the waters, how far the shock of the plutonic or volcanic forces may have been felt, whether the alteration of level extended to the whole solid crust of the earth, or only to a certain region surrounding the cradle of mankind, the record before us does not determine. * If Canaan drew his father into the shameful exposure of Noah, all can see how just the sentence was. It was thus sufficiently intelligible to primeval man, and remains to this day intelligible to us, as soon as we divest ourselves of the narrowing preconceptions of our modern civilization. divine Creators and Makers in the plural number, ( Job 35:10 ) ( Psalms 149:2 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." Never was there a moment when man was verging more evidently towards apostacy from the truth, and that not merely as to redemption, but even as to creation, as to himself, and above all as to his relationship with God. He ceased His creative act on the seventh day. Angels were not made male and female, for they were not to propagate their kind (Luke 20:34-36); but man was made so, that the nature might be propagated and the race continued. which seem to be meant by the phrase, "over all the earth"; that (88) Synecdoche is the figure which puts a part for the whole, or the whole for a part. 98. There we have delight in the man who had found grace in His eyes. This is of immense importance. One sees the reason why man before this had not been punished by the judge; whereas after the flood there was government and judicial proceeding. There may be some significance . It is the special place in which he stood that was witnessed by the sacrifice thereon offered. The beautiful type of creation belonging to Christ is thus admirably preserved. There is next the associated fact of an utter desolation which befell not the heavens, but the earth. He begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. This honour indeed God has put upon the body of man, that the Word was made flesh, the Son of God was clothed with a body like ours and will shortly clothe ours with a glory like that of his. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. He is to be related to the Eternal Being himself. Creation and redemption bear witness to His glory, instead of communicating aught of His own dignity. It is not said in Genesis 1:27 that man and woman were created together; or that the woman was created directly, and not formed out of one of the man's ribs. But it is and will be of the deepest interest to trace these ways of God in earthly government from the first. It is no longer the test of creation, as God made it, and this accordingly is marked here. It is impossible thus to connect Eden with the fountainhead or sources of these rivers. No solid reason whatever appears why it should be so used here. The whole person is in Gods image. Man will rise and live again. But they cannot produce facts, for they have none. I only speak of what is good for man out of Paradise, and how God meets with and ministers to his state in His infinite grace. The last and greatest victory of all is over the wild animals, which are included under the class of creepers that are prone in their posture, and move in a creeping attitude over the land. United as one humanity, male and female are one with God and his heavenly court. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. God forbid that by indulging the body and the desires of it we should make ourselves like the beasts that perish! Now, not only may it be the simple fact that Elohim alone was used, but, further, on account of it, the historian would not introduce here the name of special relationship which the enemy was above all anxious to have if possible forgotten, and which the woman in fact did soon forget when she allowed one to work on her mind whose first aim was to sow distrust of God. Thirdly, it seems unlikely that mans dignity above the rest of the animals (Genesis 9:5 f.; James 3:7-9) is due to his slight physiological differences from them. Not so. Enoch brings both these lessons before us. A mirror can be in a sense a light holder, such as is the moon. The infinite God, who created this universe and all the life forms within it remains unformed in our own mind. And rather than trying to figure out who wrote it, it's better to find out what it says. Genesis 11:1-32 opens with the sin of man, which led to the division described in the preceding chapter, the moral reason of that fact, new then, but still in its substance going on, whatever the superficial changes among men in their lands, and tongues, and political distribution. , from , lit., a shadow, hence sketch, outline, differs no more from , likeness, portrait, copy, than the German words Umriss or Abriss (outline or sketch) from Bild or Abbild (likeness, copy). He was to represent God here below; besides this he was to be like God. In any other book, in a book written by mere man, (need one hesitate to say?) 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. The order here is from the lowest to the highest. ii. It was soon brought to issue. This is brought before us here. But this was not Adam's state, but simply made upright, with absence and ignorance of evil. If this appearance were actually the fact, it would be impossible to escape the conclusion that the text is faulty, and that has fallen out; so that the reading should be, "and over all the wild beasts of the earth," as the Syriac has it. Is this merely the conserving of the creature? Had the crime depended on man's retaining the likeness of God, murder might have been denied or justified, because if a man were not like God the unlikeness might be urged in extenuation of killing him. Alas! However, we should not use it as a formal proof of the Trinity since this reference by itself does not prove that one God exists in three persons. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel, and to his offering. 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. Even for Adam, innocent as he was, life did not depend on abstinence from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. On the first day light is. Accepting the whole as an inspired writing, I maintain that the same writer must have used this distinctive way of speaking of God in Genesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25, and that the notion of there being two or three writers is merely a want of real intelligence in scripture. But if God had such care for us before we existed, he will by no means leave us destitute of food and of other necessaries of life, now that we are placed in the world. Let them have dominion.The plural here shows that we have to do not with Adam and Eve, but with the human race generally. Ed. The image of God within them is what makes them human. The world, the universe has been created. After this he could estimate and know things himself as good or evil; whilst innocent this could not be. 2 He was in the beginning with God. Each severally the man, the woman, the serpent stand evidently convicted by the presence of Jehovah-Elohim. That angels could assist in a work of creation. And here we find the solemn truth, that not only did Jehovah-Elohim cause to grow every tree that is pleasant and good for food, but "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.". The Bible takes a different view. See also Bishop Patricks Commentary on this verse. The reason why persons have found such perplexities, for instance) in relation to our Lord's, as compared with the Jews taking the passover and with the crucifixion, is owing to their forgetting that the evening and the morning were the first day, the second day, or any other. I wonder how long the pine tree could have existed before it decided, "I need to get my seeds out further" and it developed the little wing on the seed.There are other seeds that when the pod dries out they explode. Who was God talking to? Such a glorious God, so wise; all of these created life forms. of food to man, no mention as yet is made of any other meat than The word , which indicates that God created the man and woman as two human beings, completely overthrows the idea that man was at first androgynous (cf. What dispensation or age was there here? introduced into it as into an house ready prepared and furnished That man's being evil was a ground for sending the flood we can all see; but what depth of grace in the declaration that God knew perfectly the ruined condition of man at the very time when He pledges His word that there shall come no more flood on the earth! And it's not a very big kind of a computer. Hence, wherever man enters he makes his sway to be felt. The Bible tells us that God is the one who did these things, and the scientist tells how he might have done them. Was it a state for a promise? 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 first group shows how God created the basic spheres of operation (light and dark; sea and sky; fertile land), the second how he created the features within each of those spheres (lights of day and night; creatures of sea and sky; creatures of the land).This simple creation story, though not intended to be a scientific account, is not in conflict with science. 26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[ a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.". However, the word for "let us make" (naaseh, ) which is plural, is translated as "let us make" () which is plural in the Greek as well. I do not think that the expression means a sin-offering, as is sometimes supposed; for it does not appear that there is ground for inferring that the truth of a sin-offering was understood in the slightest degree till long afterwards. and are also equally interchangeable, as we may see from a comparison of this verse with Genesis 5:1 and Genesis 5:3. 80.]. In the beginning God created everything the heavens and the earth. It has been gathered from the varying names of God, etc., by speculative minds that there must have been different documents joined together in this book. 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. Both appear to me natural and purposed. God is pleased when people study his creation and learn its wonders (Psalms 111:2). Hence we may see how fitting it is that, as man is about to be introduced on the earth for the first time, as the previous state had nothing whatever to do with his being here below, and indeed was altogether unfit for his dwelling on it, besides the fact that he was not yet created, days should appear only when it was a question of making the heavens and the earth as they are. (90) The two prefixes to the Hebrew words signifying image and likeness; the former of which is translated in, the latter after, or still more correctly, according to. What scripture gives here or elsewhere seems to me altogether at variance with such a thought. First, however, it was an insinuation infused and allowed against the true God. His quotation is from R. F. R. Gardener, Abortion: The Personal Dilemma. The Creation of the World. It is not man placed in his moral relationships, but man the head of this kingdom of creation, as they say; but still even so with remarkable dignity. 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