And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. This is God's own opinion and verdict of the entire work of creation as it was before Him at the end of the sixth day: "Good exceedingly. " There was not a single mistake, not even a flaw, in the perfection of God's work.
Verse Genesis 1:31. _AND, BEHOLD_, IT WAS _VERY GOOD_.] טוב מאד tob meod, _Superlatively_, or _only good_; as good as they could be. The plan wise, the work well executed, the different parts properl...
- VIII. The Sixth Day 24. בהמה _b__e__hēmâh_, “cattle; dumb, tame beasts.” רמשׂ _remeś_, “creeping (small or low) animals.” חוּה _chayâh_, “living thing; animal.” חוּת־חארץ
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth. The questio...
The sixth day is occupied with the creation of the land animals and of man. It is natural that a much fuller space than usual should be accorded to the latter. And the solemnity of the act is marked b...
GOD SAW EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD MADE AND IT WAS VERY GOOD. He contemplated it and pronounced his approval upon the entire finished creation. Nothing but what was good, unless perverted, could come from...
THE SIXTH DAY. Here, with Art. "the"; unlike the other five days. Six, the Number of man. See App-10....
Sixth Day: (_a_) Creation of the Land Animals (Genesis 1:24); (_b_) Creation of Man (Genesis 1:26); (_c_) The End of the Creation (Genesis 1:31),...
_and, behold, it was very good_ The work of the six days" Creation having been completed, God, as it were, contemplates the universe both in its details and in its entirety. That which He saw to be "g...
BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD— The separate productions are pronounced _good:_ but when the whole is perfected, and, as it were, surveyed by the Almighty Master, or Creator, the superlative particle is add...
PART SEVEN: THE LAST THREE DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:20-31 The heart of the Genesis Cosmogony is that all things have been brought into existence by the Supreme Creative Will, a...
Day Six: Land Animals, Man, Naming of the Animal Tribes, Woman (Genesis 1:24-31) And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of t...
_AND GOD SAW EVERY THING THAT HE HAD MADE, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SIXTH DAY._ Saw that it was very good. In the simple anthromorphic style of this his...
THE CREATION 'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everything that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
VERY GOOD] Certain systems of philosophy and morality, ancient and modern, have proceeded on the assumption that evil is inherent in matter, and therefore that God and the world are antagonistic. This...
Everything was truly very good. God himself said so. But after that time, evil things came into the world. The devil, who is called Satan, persuaded man and woman to do wrong things. (See Genesis 3:1-...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ ABOUT GENESIS Many people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other people probably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the words o...
BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD. — This final blessing of God’s completed work on the Friday must be compared with the final words of Christ spoken of the second creation, upon the same day of the week, when...
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM. Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3) the Deity is simply called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of _Eloah,...
וַ יַּ֤רְא אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN CREATION'S CROWN Genesis 1:20 Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal Power and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20. And all things and beings were mad...
The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. It is deserving our attention, that God's approbation of his work at the clo...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
_THE DIVINE VERDICT_ ‘And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.’ Genesis 1:31 No one can prove to us that God made the world; but faith, which is stronger than all ar...
31._And God saw everything _Once more, at the conclusion of the creation, Moses declares that God approved of everything which he had made. In speaking of God as _seeing_, he does it after the manner...
Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we have the creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centre and head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
AND GOD SAW EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD MADE,.... Either all that he had made on the several six days of the creation, he took a survey of them, looked over them again, as workmen do when they have finishe...
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Ver. 31. _Behold it was very good._] Or, extreme good, pleasant and prof...
_Behold, it was very good_ It had been said of each day's work, except the second, that it was _good_, but now, of every thing, that it was _very good._ For man, the master-piece of God's works, and h...
[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.] 1 The creation of Heauen and Earth, 3 of the light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth separated from the waters, 11 and made fruitfull, 14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE, AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
31 When we come to think about our works, we find, to our shame, that much has been very bad; but when God saw his work, all was very good. Good, for it was all just as the Creator would have it to b...
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There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the Holy Ghost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, in the essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
Genesis 1:31 God H430 saw H7200 (H8799) everything H834 made H6213 (H8804) very H3966 good H2896 evening...
‘And God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning a sixth day.' The world has been prepared for man and man can be satisfied because God...
Genesis 1 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
Genesis 1:31 No one can prove to us that God made the world; but faith, which is stronger than all arguments, makes us certain of it. I. All which God has made is good, as He is, and, therefore, if a...
Genesis 1:1. _In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth._ When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but i...
CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth for habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life. CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis 1:26 (See...
_And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good_ CREATION VERY GOOD I. Why was it very good? 1. It was the offspring of infinite wisdom and power and love. 2. Because guide...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:31 One final occurrence of BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD invites the reader to imagine seeing creation through God’s eyes. Despite the invasion of sin (ch. Genesi
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 1:29_ THE UNIVERSE GOD’S GIFT TO MAN I. The Gift. 1. _Extensive._ The Universe is a Divine gift to man. It was designed for the occupation of man. The ho...
EXPOSITION 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...
Now on the third day, God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
very good. Job 38:7 Psalms 19:1 Psalms 19:2 Psalms 104:24 Psalms 104:31...
THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...
CREATION SCENES Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command to t
We have here the approbation and conclusion of the whole work of creation. Observe, The review God took of his work, he saw every thing that he had made — So he doth still; all the works of his hands...