Genesis 2:1
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. "which are now" (2 Peter 3:7), see Structure on p. 1. Hence without Hebrew Particle _'eth_. See note on Genesis 1:1 and Deuteronomy 4:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. "which are now" (2 Peter 3:7), see Structure on p. 1. Hence without Hebrew Particle _'eth_. See note on Genesis 1:1 and Deuteronomy 4:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVENTH. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "sixth", which is evidently correct. DAY. See on ch. Genesis 1:5. GOD ENDED. See on Genesis 1:1 and App-5. MADE. See note on Genesis 1:7. RESTED. From achievement; man rests from fatigue.... [ Continue Reading ]
CREATED. See note on Genesis 1:1. The Introduction (Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:3) is the summary: Genesis 2:4 gives the details of Genesis 1: Genesis 2:9 coming historically between verses: Genesis 1:12 and Genesis 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
GENERATIONS. Family history. For the 14 in Bible, see the structure of the Book as. whole (p. 1). These are the Divine divisions, in which there is no trace of the Elohistic and Jehovistic theories. It should be seen here if anywhere. But note: there is only one in which _Elohim_ is used (No. 1); on... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY PLANT, &C. This is an expansion of Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12, giving details. FOR. Three reasons why plants in ground "before they grew": (1) no rain; (2) no man; (3)no mist: see Genesis 2:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT. and. MIST. no mist... to water. The last of two or three negatives not necessary. Must be supplied by Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6. a), as in Deuteronomy 33:6; 1 Samuel 2:3.Psalms 9:18; Psalms 38:1; Psalms 75:5.Proverbs 24:12; Proverbs 25:27; Isaiah 38:18, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORMED. As. potter. Isaiah 64:8. MAN. Hebrew. _'eth- 'Ha'adham_ (with art. and particle. "this same man Adam". See App-14). BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah._ See App-16. of. Genitive of Apposition (App-17). "breath [that is] life". SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See "life", Genesis 1:20, and App-13. Compare... [ Continue Reading ]
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. GARDEN. This garden may be additional to Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:12; Genesis 2:4; Genesis 2:5 -. That creation concerns the "plants of _the field"_ (1st occ). This may have been. special planting, and lost when the garden and Eden were lost. Note th... [ Continue Reading ]
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 of life", John 6:48; John 6:51; John 6:53. MIDST. Compare Revelation 2:7. KNOWLEDGE. sense or perc... [ Continue Reading ]
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. RIVER. the Persian Gulf, known as such to the Accadians, in which the river became four mouths (or heads) at spots where they flowed into the source which received and fed them.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. PISON. the river W. of the Euphrates, called _Pallukat_ in reign of Nabonidos, last king of Babylonia, or the Pallakopas Canal. COMPASSETH. The Pallukat or Pison encircled the N. borders of the great sandy desert which stretched westward to the mou... [ Continue Reading ]
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. ONYX. Hebrew. _shoham,_ identified with Assyr. _samtu,_ from that region.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. GIHON. the river E. of the Tigris. The modern _Kerkhah,_ and ancient _Khoaspes,_ rising in the mountains of the _Kassi. Kas_ has been confused with the Heb, _Cush._ It is not the African Cush or Ethiopia, but the Accadian _kas._... [ Continue Reading ]
VERSES 8-14 Figure of speech _Parecbasis._ App-6. HIDDEKEL. Accadian for the Tigris, which was _Idiqla,_ or _Idiqlat =_ "the encircling". ASSYRIA. Hebrew. _Hashshur_ (_Asshur_). This is not Assyria, but the city of _Assur,_ the primitive capital of Assyria (which lay E. and W, of the Tigris). EUP... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MAN. Hebrew. _'eth_. _ha'adham_. this same man Adam. See App-14. KEEP. keep safe, preserve. Same Hebrew as Genesis 3:24; Genesis 17:9; Genesis 17:10; Genesis 18:19, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MAN. Hebrew. _ha'adham_ (with art.). the man Adam. See App-14. FREELY. Hebrew "Eating thou mayest eat". Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6) for emphasis (see note on Genesis 26:28). Here rightly marked by "freely". Toned down by Eve in Genesis 3:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
TREE. Note the three trees: "Knowledge" (Genesis 2:9), man's Ruin; "the Cross" (Acts 10:39; Acts 5:30; 1 Peter 2:24), man's Redemption; "the Tree of Life" (Genesis 2:9; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 22:2), man's Regeneration. GOOD AND EVIL. See on "knowledge", Genesis 2:9. Obedience proving what was "g... [ Continue Reading ]
MEET. as his counterpart.... [ Continue Reading ]
GROUND: giving the details of Genesis 1:24. CREATURE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See Genesis 1:20 and App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOMAN. Heb _'ishah,_ fem, of _'ish_ (App-14). female.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, &C, quoted Matthew 19:5, &c. 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAKED. Hebrew. _'arum,_. Homonym. The same spelling as word rendered "subtil" in Genesis 3:1.... [ Continue Reading ]