God created, i.e. produced out of most unfit matter, as if a man should out of a stone make bread, which requires as great a power as that which is properly called creation. Great whales; those vast sea monsters known by that name, though elsewhere this word be applied to great dragons of the earth. After his kind; in such manner as is declared in the first note upon Genesis 1:20. See Poole on "Genesis 1:20". read more
He gave them power of procreation and fruitfulness, which is justly mentioned as a great blessing, Psalms 128:3-4. Fill the waters in the seas; and consequently in the rivers, which come from the sea, and return into it. Let fowl multiply in the earth, where they shall commonly have their habitation, though they had their original from the waters; of which see Poole on "Genesis 1:20". read more
1. Those living creatures hereafter mentioned, whose original is from the earth, and whose habitation is in it. 2. Those tame beasts which are most familiar with and useful to men for food, clothing, or other service. 3. Creeping thing; to wit, of the earth, of a differing kind from those creeping things of the water, Genesis 1:20. 4. The wild beast, as the Hebrew word commonly signifies, and as appears further, because they are distinguished from the tame beasts, here called cattle. read more
God had now prepared all things necessary for man’s use and comfort. The plurals us and our afford an evident proof of a plurality of persons in the Godhead. It is plain from many other texts, as well as from the nature and reason of the thing, that God alone is man’s Creator: the angels rejoiced at the work of creation, but only God wrought it, Job 38:4-7. And it is no less plain from this text, and from divers other places, that man had more Creators than one person: see Job 35:10; John... read more
Not both together, as some of the Jews have fabled, but successively, the woman after and out of the man, as is more particularly related, Genesis 2:21, &c., which is here mentioned by anticipation. Albeit the woman also seems to have been made upon the sixth day, as is here related, and as the following blessing showeth, which is common to both of them, though the particular history of it is brought in afterwards, Genesis 2:1-25, by way of recapitulation or repetition. read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 1:1. In the beginning] Or, “at first,” “originally,” “to start with:” Sept. en archê (εν αρχῃ) as in John 1:1. God] Heb. ’Elohim (אֱלֹהִים): w. ref. to this frequent and interesting Divine Name, note (1.) its radical conception—that of POWER; (2.) its form—PLURAL, either “of excellence” (Ges. and others), or “of abstraction,” as in “lordship” for “lord” in English (B. Davies); (3.) its construction—gen. w. SING. VERS, AND PRONOUN, as here w. bârâʾ (בָרָא), he... read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 1:3. And God said] Better (because of the strong waw, and position of verb): “Then said God” = “the state of things being as just described.” From this point the drama is unfolded to the eye. Light] The orig. is indeed inimitable: Yehi’ôr, wá-yehi ʼôr. The nearest approach in Eng. is perh: “Exist, light!—then exists light” Genesis 1:4. Good] Also: “fair,” “fine,” “beautiful;” Sept. Kalon. Genesis 1:5. And the e. and the m. were] A dull rendering. The Heb. marks sequence,... read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 1:6. Firmament] Or: “expanse;” prop. “something beaten out.” “expanded.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 1:6-8THE ATMOSPHEREThe word here translated “firmament” more properly means expanse; it comes from a Hebrew verb meaning “to spread out.” It is literally “Let there be something spread out between the waters” Let us review the uses of the atmosphere. I. It is necessary to the possibility of human life. Had not the waters been divided by the atmosphere, human... read more
CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 1:11. Kind] Prop. “form” or “shape,” hence “species,” “kind.” Comp. 1 Corinthians 15:38, where note the aorist tense = “as it (originally) pleased him:”—a hint on “the perpetuity of species.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 1:9-13THE SEA AND THE DRY LANDI. The Sea. “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place.” 1. The method of their location. The great waters which covered the earth were swept into one place, and were... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:20
The moving creature, or, creeping thing. A word which belongs to all those living creatures who move with their bellies close to the element they move in. Hence it is used both of birds which fly in the air, Leviticus 11:20, and of things creeping upon the earth, as Genesis 1:24, and of fishes that swim in the sea, as here. And fowl that may fly above the earth. The particle that or which is oft wanting, and to be understood in the Hebrew language, as Genesis 39:4; Job 41:1; Isaiah 6:6;... read more