Genesis 1:20-30 KJV,ASV

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:20

Day five. The waters and the air, separated on the second day, are on this filled with their respective inhabitants. And God said. Nature never makes an onward movement, in the sense of an absolutely new departure, unless under the impulse of the word of Elohim. These words distinctly claim that the creatures of the sea and of the air, even if evolved from material elements, were produced in obedience to Divine command, and not spontaneously generated by the potentia vitae of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:20-22

The mystery of life. I. ITS ORIGIN . 1. Not dead matter . Scripture, equally with science, represents life as having a physical basis; but, unlike modern evolutionists, never confounds vital force with the material mechanism in which it resides, and through which it operates. Advanced biologists account for life by molecular arrangement, chemical combination, spontaneous generation, or some such equally insufficient hypothesis. The rigorous necessities of truth and logic,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:20-23

The fifth day. I. LIVE UNDER THE BLESSING OF GOD . 1. Abundance . Swarming waters, swarming air? preparing for the swarming earth. "Be fruitful, and multiply." The absence of all restraint because as yet the absence of sin. God's law is liberty. The law of life is the primary law. If there be in man's world a contradiction between the multiplication of life and the happiness of life, it is a sign of departure from the original order. 2. Growth , improvement,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

And God created ( bara , is in Genesis 1:1 , to indicate the introduction of an absolutely new thing, viz; the principle of animal life) great whales . Tanninim , from tanan ; Greek, τει ì νω ; Latin, tendo ; Sansc; tan , to stretch. These were the first of the two classes into which the sheretzim of the previous verse were divided. The word is used of serpents ( Exodus 7:9 ; Deuteronomy 32:33 ; Psalms 91:13 ; Jeremiah 51:34 ), of the crocodile ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

Day six . Like day three, this is distinguished by a double creative act, the production of the higher or land animals and the creation of man, of the latter of which it is perhaps permissible to see a mute prediction in the vegetation which closed the first half of the creative week. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind . In these words the land animals are generically characterized as nephesh chayyah , or animated beings; in the terms... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:23

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. If of the previous creative days geological science has only doubtful traces, of this it bears irrefragable witness. When the first animal life was Introduced upon our globe may be said to be as yet sub judice . Principal Dawson inclines to claim for the gigantic foraminifer, eozoon canadense , of the Laurentian rocks, the honor of being one of the first aquatic creatures that swarmed in terrestrial waters, though Professor Huxley... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:24-31

The sixth day. We pass from the sea and air to the earth. We are being led to man. Notice— I. THE PREPARATION IS COMPLETE . Before the earth receives the human being, it brings forth all the other creatures, and God sees that they are good—good in his sight, good for man. II. THE PURPOSE OF THE WORK IS BENEVOLENT . Cattle, creeping thing, beast of the earth. So man would see them distinguished—the wild from the domestic, the creeping from the roaming, the clean from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:25

And God made ( asah , not beta , the principle of life being not now introduced for the first time, as in Genesis 1:21 ) the beast of the earth (the chayyah ) after his kind, and cattle ( behemah ) after their kind, and every thing that creepeth on the earth (literally, every reraes of the ground) after his kind. The order of creation ( Genesis 1:25 ) differs from that in which they were summoned into existence ( Genesis 1:24 ). The latter may be the order of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:26

The importance assigned in the Biblical record to the creation of man is indicated by the manner in which it is introduced. And God said, Let us make man. Having already explained the significance of the term Elohim , as suggesting the fullness of the Divine personality, and foreshadowing the doctrine of the Trinity ( Genesis 1:1 ), other interpretations, such as that God takes counsel with the angels (Philo, Aben Ezra, Delitzsch), or with the earth (Maimonides, M . Gerumlius), or... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:26-27

The creation of man. Take it— I. As a revelation of God in his relation to man. II. As a revelation of man to himself. I. GOD IN RELATION TO MAN . 1. As the Father as well as Creator . As to the rest of creation, it is said, "Let be," and "it was." As to many "Let us make in our image." Closely kin by original nature, man is invited to intercourse with the Divine. 2. The spirituality of God's highest creature is the bond of union and fellowship. The... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:20-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:20-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:24-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:26-27

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