Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. This Chapter is remarkable for the events recorded in it, which took place immediately after creation-work was finished. In it is contained, also, the first institution of the sabbath, the blessings God pronounced upon it, and... [ Continue Reading ]
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Deuteronomy 5:14. How beautiful is it to behold the first institution of the Patriarchal sabbath. God rested from his work. Not from fatigue, but complacency. Beholding... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, The LORD God made the earth etc. As this is the first verse in the Bible, in which we meet with the sacred name of LORD GOD, joined together; the Reader wou... [ Continue Reading ]
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 of obedience, in the original covenant of works. And the tree of knowledge of good and evil; perhap... [ Continue Reading ]
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 a figure of Him that was to come; doth it not suggest to us, that as the woman was formed out of th... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS MANY are the sweet reflections which are suggested to the Readers mind, from the perusal of this Chapter. Here is the first institution of the holy sabbath. And here we meet also with the first institution of the holy estate of marriage. Both of divine authority. Both sanctified by God h... [ Continue Reading ]