Genesis 2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished when God created man in His own image. Then the universe was what He designed it to be; then He could look, not upon a portion of it, but upon the whole of it, and say, "It is very good." I. We are told: (1) "God made man in His own image; male an... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:3 I. Whether the patriarchs were or were not commanded to keep the Sabbath is a thing which we can never know; it is no safe foundation for our thinking ourselves bound to keep it, that the patriarchs kept it before the Law was given, and that the commandment had existed before the time of... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:7 I. We see from this text that it was the will of God that there should be between man and the other creatures He had formed an enormous gulf; that men were intended to be raised above the beasts altogether in kind; that they were to be not merely superior but different, as having a like... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:8 _(with Genesis 3:22)_ I. Our first parents are discovered in a state of innocence, beauty, and blessedness, which is broken up utterly by the transgression of the Divine command. (1) To Eden, as the first condition of human existence, all hearts bear witness. Two hymns are babbled by th... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:9 In the second of the three accounts of the creation we have an answer to the questions which would naturally be put by an inquiring mind, as to man's present moral state and original moral constitution. Man, though created sinless, was, from the very fact of his creaturely existence, not... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:10 Attempts have been made to find out what rivers are here spoken of by Moses, and where they are to be found. But the description in Genesis was purposely intended to baffle and defy any geographical identification. Paradise was never meant to be trampled by the feet of them that travel... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:12 I. If men so willed, gold might be won and no soul lost. And therefore we must take care to distinguish between gold and the thirst for gold. Gold is like the rest of God's gifts, a good thing or a bad thing, according to the use made of it. And so it is no wonder that Scripture has re... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:17 These words comprehend the whole of humanity in their application; every man and woman that ever has existed or shall exist on the face of the earth. This was not a positive law, but a negative one; the law of which Adam and Eve were transgressors was a prohibition, and to that prohibi... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:24 I. The gift of speech to Adam was in itself a sublime prophecy that man was not to remain alone and without a companion in the garden where God had placed him. Glorious as man's condition was, there was yet a want the shadow of some yearning hung upon his brow. The sleep that fell upon... [ Continue Reading ]