- The Seventh Day 1. צבא _tsābā'_ “a host in marching order,” a company of persons or things in the order of their nature and the progressive discharge of their functions. Hence, it is applied to the starry host Deuteronomy 4:19, to the angelic host 1 Kings 22:19, to the host of Israel Exodus 12:... [ Continue Reading ]
- Part II. The development - Section II - The Man - X. The Field 4. תולדות _tôl__e__dôt_ “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the child from the parent, the record of which is history. יהוה _y__e__hovâh_. This word occurs about six thousand times in Scrip... [ Continue Reading ]
- 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. פישׁון _pı̂yshôn_ Pishon; related: “flow over, spread, leap.” חוילה _chăvı̂ylâh_ Chavilah. חול _chôl_ “sand.” חבל... [ Continue Reading ]
- XII. The Command 15. נוּח _nûach_ “rest, dwell.” עבד _‛__ābad_ “work, till, serve.” שׁמר _shāmar_ “keep, guard.” We have here the education of man summed up in a single sentence. Let us endeavor to unfold the great lessons that are here taught. Genesis 2:15 THE LORD GOD TOOK THE MAN. - The s... [ Continue Reading ]
- XIII. The Naming of the Animals Here man’s intellectual faculties proceed from the passive and receptive to the active and communicative stage. This advance is made in the review and designation of the various species of animals that frequent the land and skies. A new and final need of man is sta... [ Continue Reading ]
Here, as in several previous instances Genesis 1:5; Genesis 2:4, Genesis 2:8, the narrative reverts to the earlier part of the sixth day. This is, therefore, another example of the connection according to thought overruling that according to time. The order of time, however, is restored, when we tak... [ Continue Reading ]
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, his purposes, his enterprises. It was now evident, from actual survey, that none of these animals,... [ Continue Reading ]
- XIV. The Woman 21. תרדמה _tardēmâh_, “deep sleep,” ἔκστασις _ekstasis_, Septuagint. צלע _tsēlā‛_, “rib, side, wing of a building.” 23. פעם _pa‛am_, “beat, stroke, tread, anvil.” אישׁ _'ı̂ysh_, “man,” vir. אשׁה _'āshah_, “be firm, as a foundation;” ישׁה _yāshah_, “be firm as a substance;”... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether the primeval man was conscious of the change in himself, and of the work of the Supreme Being while it was going on, or received supernatural information of the event when he awoke, does not appear. But he is perfectly aware of the nature of her who now for the first time appears before his... [ Continue Reading ]
These might be the words of the first man Genesis 2:24. As he thoroughly understood the relation between himself and the woman, there is no new difficulty in conceiving him to become acquainted at the same time with the relationship of son to father and mother, which was in fact only another form of... [ Continue Reading ]
This is corroborated by the statement contained in Genesis 2:25. “They were both naked, and were not ashamed.” Of nakedness in our sense of the term they had as yet no conception. On the contrary, they were conscious of being sufficiently clothed in a physical sense by nature’s covering, the skin -... [ Continue Reading ]