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Genesis 2:9
We do not know much about these two special trees. (See Genesis 3:22 and the comment.)
We do not know much about these two special trees. (See Genesis 3:22 and the comment.)
Verse Genesis 2:9. _EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT, C._] If we take up these expressions literally, they may bear the following interpretation: the tree pleasant to the sight may mean every...
- XI. The Garden 8. גן _gan_ “garden, park,” παράδεισος _paradeisos_, “an enclosed piece of ground.” עדן _‛__ēden_ “Eden, delight.” קדם _qedem_ “fore-place, east; foretime.” 11....
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...
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...
The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
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...
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. TREE OF LIFE. Genitive of cause (App-17). the Tree supporting and continuing the life which had been imparted. Compare Genesis 3:22. Hence "the bread...
_And out of the ground_, &c. The characteristic feature of the "garden," or "enclosure," is not its flowers, but its trees. This evident, also, from the traditional belief as to the Garden, which is r...
The Garden in Eden 8. _a garden_ More strictly "an enclosure." LXX παράδεισον, Lat. _paradisum_, a word borrowed from the Persian, and meaning "a park-like enclosure." Its use here has given rise to t...
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...
_AND OUT OF THE GROUND MADE THE LORD GOD TO GROW EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT AND GOOD FOR_ _ AND OUT OF THE GROUND MADE THE LORD GOD TO GROW EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT, AND...
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...
EVERY TREE] The garden was planted with trees, like a king's pleasure park. The trees are specially mentioned, partly because they were to provide man's food, and partly because attention is directed...
EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT, AND GOOD FOR FOOD. — It has often been noticed that while the ancients do not seem to have had much taste for the beauty of the landscape, they greatly admire...
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...
וַ יַּצְמַ֞ח יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהִים֙ מִן ־הָ֣ אֲדָמ
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 IN EDEN, INNOCENCE Genesis 2:1 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion,...
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...
MAN IS DIFFERENT Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the (g) tree of life also in the midst of the garden, (h) and the tree of knowledge of good...
The tree of life. So called, because it had that quality, that by eating of the fruit of it, man would have been preserved in a constant state of health, vigour, and strength, and would not have died...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
_THE TREE OF DESTINY_ ‘The tree of knowledge of good and evil.’ Genesis 2:9 I. WE CALL THE SCRIPTURES A REVELATION; in other words, _ an unveiling_. The Bible records were given to us to take away...
9_And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow _The production here spoken of belongs to the third day of the creation. But Moses expressly declares the place to have been richly replenished with e...
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...
AND OUT OF THE GROUND MADE THE LORD GOD TO GROW EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT, AND GOOD FOR FOOD,.... That is, out of the ground of the garden of Eden; and this was done on the third day, w...
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evi...
Genesis 2:9 (and Genesis 3:22; Genesis 3:23; Genesis 3:24). _Concerning the Tree of Life._ This tree seems manifestly to have been designed for a seal of Adam'
_Every tree pleasant to the sight_ That was calculated to render this garden the most beautiful place on earth; _and good for food_ That is, agreeable to the taste and useful to the body. So that both...
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...
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil....
The Garden of Eden...
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]...
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...
8-14 The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but a garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we seek things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approac...
THE TREE OF LIFE; so called, either symbolically, and sacramentally, because it was a sign and seal of that life which man had received from God, and of his continual enjoyment of it upon condition of...
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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‘And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowing good and evil.' H...
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
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...
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...
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 E...
Genesis 2:1. 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 whi...
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...
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...
_The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden_ THE GARDEN OF EDEN I. IN THIS GARDEN PROVISION WAS MADE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF MAN. 1. The garden was beautiful. 2. The garden was fruitful. 3. The...
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
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:8 God provides a suitable environment for the man by planting a GARDEN IN EDEN, IN THE EAST. The name “Eden” suggests luxury and pleasure. It probably refers to a region much...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.” wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst). GENESIS 2:17. SURELY DIE] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in Genesis 2:16...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 2:8 In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition, the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place of rest, now reverts to a point of ti...
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...
every. Ezekiel 31:8 Ezekiel 31:9 Ezekiel 31:16 Ezekiel 31:18 tree of life....
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...