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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:14

And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven ,.... In the upper part of it, commonly called the starry heaven: some writers, both Jewish and Christian, and even modern astronomers, understand this only of the appearance of them, and not of the formation of them; they suppose they were made on the first day, but did not appear or shine out so clearly and visibly as now on the fourth day: but it seems rather, that the body of fire and light produced on the first day was now... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:15

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven ,.... To continue there as luminous bodies; as enlighteners, as the word signifies, causing light, or as being the instruments of conveying it, particularly to the earth, as follows: to give light upon the earth ; and the inhabitants of it, when formed: and it was so : these lights were formed and placed in the firmament of the heaven for such uses, and served such purposes as God willed and ordered they should. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:16

And God made two great lights ,.... This was his own work which he himself did, and not by another; and may be particularly observed to express the folly of idolaters in worshipping these luminaries which were the creations of God, and were placed by him in the heaven to serve some purposes on earth beneficial to men, but not to be worshipped. These two "great lights" are the sun and the moon; and they may well be called great, especially the former, for the diameter of the sun is reckoned... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:17

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven ,.... He not only ordered that there they should be, and made them that there they might be, but he placed them there with his own hands; and they are placed, particularly the sun, at such a particular distance as to be beneficial and not hurtful: had it been set nearer to the earth, its heat would have been intolerable; and had it been further off it would have been of no use; in the one case we should have been scorched with its heat, and in... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:18

And to rule over the day, and over the night ,.... The one, namely the sun, or greater light, to rule over the day, and the moon and stars, the lesser lights, to rule over the night: this is repeated from Genesis 1:16 to show the certainty of it, and that the proper uses of these lights might be observed, and that a just value might be put upon them, but not carried beyond due bounds: and to divide the light from the darkness ; as the day from the night, which is done by the sun, ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:19

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Made by the rotation of the earth on its own axis, in the space of twenty four hours: this according to Capellus was the twenty first of April, and according to Bishop Usher the twenty sixth of October; or, as others, the fourth of September: and thus, as on the fourth day of the creation the sun was made, or appeared, so in the fourth millennium the sun of righteousness arose on our earth. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:20

And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly ,.... The waters gathered together in one place, the waters of the ocean, and those in rivers, pools and lakes, and which, before their collection into those places, had been sat on, moved, and impregnated by the Spirit of God; so that they could, as they did, by the divine order accompanied with his power, bring forth abundance of creatures, next mentioned: the moving creature that hath life : an animal life, of which sort of creatures... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:21

And God created great whales ,.... Which the Targums of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of the Leviathan and its mate, concerning which the Jews have many fabulous things: large fishes are undoubtedly meant, and the whale being of the largest sort, the word is so rendered. Aelianus, from various writers, relates many things of the extraordinary size of whales; of one in the Indian sea five times bigger than the largest elephant, one of its ribs being twenty cubits F18 Hist. Animal. l. 16.... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:22

And God blessed them ,.... With a power to procreate their kind, and continue their species, as it is interpreted in the next clause, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas : and these creatures do multiply exceedingly, and vast quantities there are of them in the mighty waters, though the consumption of some sorts of them is very great. Our English word "fish" is derived from the Hebrew word פוש , "fush", which signifies to multiply and increase: and let... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:23

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day before, having gone round the earth, or the earth about that, in the space of twenty four hours; and according to Capellus this was the twenty second of April; or, as others, the fifth of September; and according to Bishop Usher the twenty seventh of October. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 1:23

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