Genesis 3:16. We have here the sentence passed on the woman: she is condemned to a state ofsorrow and subjection:proper punishments of a sin in which she had gratified her pleasure and her pride.I will greatly multiply thy sorrow —In divers pains and infirmities peculiar to thy sex; an...
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 ...
Genesis 1:2. Theearth —When first called into existence,was without form and void: confusion and emptiness,as the same original words are rendered,Isaiah 34:11. It was without order, beauty, or even use, in its present state, and was surrounded on all sides with thick darkness, through ...
Perhaps we Christians ought to change the order of our Bible's contents, as Stanley suggests. WhenI recommend how others ought to read the Bible, I don't tell them to start with Genesis. Starting with Luke, who investigated the accounts would be a wonderful introduction to the Bible and t...
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 ...
With men it is impossible, but not with God, for with God all things are possible: Once again, the idea that humans—wealthy or otherwise—can enter the kingdom on their own merit is debunked. A subtle indication of the need for an atonement is suggested here. Relationship to Genesis 18...
–Genesis 15:6 (NASB) Abraham was considered righteous by God because of his faith, long before the Torah was given at Sinai and even before the commandment of circumcision as a sign of God’s covenant with Abraham. Thus it is faith that is the common denominator across all populations, ...
In another vein, amidst these verses we meet other possible connections to Hannah, mother of the prophet Samuel (see the introduction to chapter 1, section D; the Notes on 1:46–48; the Analysis on 1:5–25). They have to do with the presentation of a child. Only in the story of ...
23 Comm on Acts (V1) John Calvin hath after a certain sort revealed it unto them, (Genesis 8:22.) The same opinion must we have of the prophets; for it was their office to know those things which God did reveal. But we must be ignorant of the secret events of things, as ...
Yet by the time the "covering" (not the door/entrance as described in Genesis the sixth chapter refers to a different Hebrew word for "door" compared to "covering" mentioned in (Ge. 8:13). another three months before Noah removed the ark's covering to see that ...