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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 — Overview
Genesis 1 is the very first chapter of the whole Bible. It tells us how God made everything — light and darkness, sky and sea, land and plants, sun and moon, fish and birds and animals — and last of all, people! Every…
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 1:1
God is the Creator of all things. Nothing exists that He did not make. He was there before the beginning — and He made it all. Memory phrase: God made everything. Talk about it: Can you imagine a time when there was…
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 1:2
Before God spoke creation into order, His Spirit was present over the chaos. This verse shows that God never abandons what He is about to make — He was already there, attentive and ready, before the first word of…
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 1:3
God is so powerful that He creates just by speaking. His words carry the power to bring life and light out of nothing — and He still speaks today through the Bible. Memory phrase: God spoke and light came. Talk about…
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 1:4
God evaluates His creation and declares it good — this is the first of seven times He does so in this chapter. Order and goodness come from God's hand; He brings beauty out of chaos. Memory phrase: God saw it was good.…
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…