d. According to its kind: This phrase appears ten times in Genesis chapter 1. It means God allows variation within a kind, but something of one kind will never develop into something of another kind. e. And God saw that it was good: God knows what is good. He is not some vague mor...
This chapter presents a commentary on Let us make man in our Image after our likeness (Genesis 1:26). After the Holy Oneblessed be Hehad created the whole worldthe upper heavens, the angels and all the servants of His glory, the earth, the firmament and the waters, the trees, the ...
The word (bara, in Hebrew) does not necessarily mean that, but its peculiar use in this chapter suggests that it means that here. It occurs three times, here in (Genesis 1:1, at the introduction of life on the fifth day, and at the creation of man on the sixth day. Elsewhere, whe...
The initial chapter deals with introductory issues and Blenkinsopp comes to fairly standard historical critical conclusions. He views Genesis 1–11 as basically the combination of P and J and its genre as myth (with no pejorative sense intended). The plot was taken over from Atrahasis but ...
15 Comm on Acts (V1) John Calvin COMMENTARY UPON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER 1 Acts 1:1-2 1. The former speech truly have we had, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and teach, 2. Even until that day, wherein, after he had given commandment by the Holy ...
On the sixth day of the week, God made man in his image to rule as God rules. The refrain of God’s judgments in Genesis 1 is, “and God saw that it was good.” The eyes are instruments of judgment, discerning between good and evil. In John 9, we meet a man born blind who ...
Genesis 3 The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. In the foregoing chapters we have had the pleasant view of the holiness and happiness of our first parents, the grace and favour of God, and the peace and beauty ...
the "Arians" and the Parable of Humanity's Creation: A Syriac Fragment of Theodore of Mopsuestia's Commentary on Genesis 1.26 For many historians and theologians, there are primarily two things that come to mind at the mention of Theodore of Mopsuestia: his relationship to the christo...
Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Verse 6.-And it repented the Lord.Yinnahem; fromnaham, to pant, to groan; Niph., to lament, to grieve bemuse of the misery of others, also because of one's own actions...
(Genesis 39:9, BSB). It’s a strange reply, especially to an Egyptian woman who might have thought: “God? Which god are you talking about?” Yet Joseph apparently had been taught and believed that none of us are ever really alone. God is always there, and God always sees. “The ...