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Verse Genesis 2:20. _AND ADAM GAVE NAMES TO ALL CATTLE_] Two things
God appears to have had in view by causing man to name all the cattle,
c. 1. To show him with what comprehensive powers of mind his...
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We find, however, there was another end served by this review of the
animals. “There was not found a helpmeet for the man” - an equal,
a companion, a sharer of his thoughts, his observations, his joys...
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II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
Man in Innocency before the Fall
Genesis 2:4-45
_ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_
2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7)
3. The garden of Eden...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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_the man gave names_ We have here the exercise of man's powers of
discrimination and classification. This is the birth of science. Man's
first use of speech is in the naming of animals. The names desc...
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The Creation of Animals and of Woman
18. _It is not good_, &c. Man is created a social animal. His full
powers cannot be developed by physical and mental work alone; nor his
moral being by self-discip...
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PART NINE: THE BEGINNING OF SOCIETY
(Genesis 2:8-25)
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put
the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to
grow ev...
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_AND ADAM GAVE NAMES TO ALL CATTLE, AND TO THE FOWL OF THE AIR, AND TO
EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD; BUT FOR ADAM THERE WAS NOT FOUND AN HELP
MEET FOR HIM._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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2:20 like. (h-31) Or 'counterpart.'...
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LET THE WATERS] render, 'let the waters swarm with swarms of living
creatures,' animalculæ, insects, fish, etc. FOWL THAT MAY FLY] RV
'let fowl fly.'...
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PARADISE AND THE FALL
In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual
teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is
evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
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‘Adam’ is a *Hebrew word that means ‘a man’. It is also the
name of the first man.
None of the animals was a suitable helper because they are not like
man. God made man as an image of himself. Man is...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 2
GOD RESTS
V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in
them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
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EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their
original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
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AND ADAM GAVE NAMES. — Throughout this chapter Adam is but once
mentioned as a proper name; and the regular phrase in the Hebrew is
_the adam,_ that is, the man, except in the last clause of this vers...
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וַ יִּקְרָ֨א הָֽ אָדָ֜ם שֵׁמֹ֗ות לְ
כָל
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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...
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MAN AND WOMAN, TEMPTATION
Genesis 2:18; Genesis 3:1
Human love is God's best gift to man. Without it even Eden would not
be Paradise. That Adam was able to name the animals, affixing a title
suggeste...
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This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct
movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account.
First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed"
su...
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A HELP SUITED TO MAN
Everything had been good until man was created. Then God observed, "It
is not good that man should be alone" (2:18). God planned to make a
helper (aid) "corresponding to him" or...
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_Names, probably in the Hebrew language, in which the names of things,
frequently designate their nature and quality. See Bochart. ---
(Calmet)_...
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And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
1 Timothy 2:13; Ephesians 5:31. As the apostle speaks of this as a
figure, and we know that Adam was...
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In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion
as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a
creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
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AND ADAM GAVE NAMES TO ALL CATTLE, AND TO THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, AND TO
EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD,.... As they came before him, and passed by
him, paying as it were their homage to him, their lord and o...
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And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help
meet for him.
Ver. 20. _Adam gave names._] A sign of his sover...
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1 The first Sabbath.
4 The maner of the creation.
8 The planting of the garden of Eden,
10 and the riuer thereof.
17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the
creatures.
21 T...
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The Lack of Companionship for Man...
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And Adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help
meet for him. This is a parenthetical remark, preparing for the n...
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SECOND SECTION
_Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical
Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._
GENESIS 2:4-25.
A. The Earth waiting for Man.
4These are the generations [genealogies]...
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THE SEVENTH DAY
The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1.
"Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were
finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
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GAVE:
_ Heb._ called...
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18-25 Power over the creatures was given to man, and as a proof of
this he named them all. It also shows his insight into the works of
God. But though he was lord of the creatures, yet nothing in thi...
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But though, in giving them names, he considered their several natures
and perfections, it was evident to himself, as well as to the Lord,
that none of them was an help meet for him....
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The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely,
"the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special
attention.
There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
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Genesis 2:20 Adam H120 gave H7121 (H8799) names H8034 cattle H929
birds H5775 air H8064 beast H2416 field...
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‘And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone.
I will make him a helper who is suitable for him (literally ‘as in
front of him')”. And out of the ground the Lord God formed (or had...
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THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4).
‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant
(siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of
the field had yet sp...
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MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II.
Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God
is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
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CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27
explained. The Edenic covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve.
CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real
man i...
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Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought,
but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6.
Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan
Pentateuch reads, the si...
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_I will make him an help meet for him_
THE CREATION OF WOMAN
I. WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN IN ORDER THAT SHE MIGHT RELIEVE HIS
SOLITUDE BY INTELLIGENT COMPANIONSHIP.
II. WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO MAN THAT...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:20 THE MAN GAVE NAMES. By naming the
animals, the man demonstrates his authority over all the other
creatures. ADAM. See note on 5:1–2....
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered
initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis
1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 2:18. Help meet] Prob. “according to his front” (Dav.) or
“corresponding to him” (Ges., Fürst, Dav.).
GENESIS 2:19. TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD CALL THEM] Or: “that he [Adam]
might...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 2:18
In anticipation of the ensuing narrative of the temptation and the
fall, the historian, having depicted man's settlement in Eden,
advances to complete his _dramatis personae _...
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
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THE FIRST WOMAN
Genesis 2:20; Genesis 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
When we enter into the Bible story of creation there is something that
makes it all seem so real, so definite, and so certain. Evolution...
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ADAM AND EVE
Genesis 2:19
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Genesis is the Book of beginnings. The only thing, so far as man is
concerned, before Genesis, is God. Revelation is the Book of the
beginning again. We...