George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Genesis 1:22
Blessed them, or enabled them to produce others. --- Multiply: the immense numbers and variety of fishes and fowls is truly astonishing.
Blessed them, or enabled them to produce others. --- Multiply: the immense numbers and variety of fishes and fowls is truly astonishing.
Verse Genesis 1:22. _LET FOWL MULTIPLY IN THE EARTH_.] It is truly astonishing with what care, wisdom, and minute skill God has formed the different genera and species of birds, whether intended to l...
- VII. The Fifth Day 20. שׁרץ _shārats_, “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own or a like signification. נפשׁ _nephesh_, “breath, soul,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CREATION ACCOUNT The manner in which the book of Genesis begins leaves no doubt that it is the revelation of God. The creation account is historical truth. The questio...
On the fifth day were created the denizens of the water and the atmosphere; the creatures that move in swarms in the water, all winged creatures, including insects, and the sea monsters, especially, p...
BLESSED. See on Genesis 1:1. Note the threefold blessing at Creation (Genesis 1:22; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 2:3)....
The Fifth Day. The Creation of Water Animals and Flying Animals 20. _Let the waters … life_ The rendering, "bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life," fails to give the full meaning o...
_God blessed them_ With the creation of the living animals of the water and the air is introduced the mention of a new Divine act, that of blessing. It is connected with the gift of life (see note on...
AND GOD BLESSED THEM, &C.— Not only their being, but the continuance of it is provided for. Life is a fleeting thing; succession is needful. God hath commanded it shall be, and, in virtue of his bless...
Day Five: the Water and Air Species (Genesis 1:20-23) And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God cre...
PART SEVEN: THE LAST THREE DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:20-31 The heart of the Genesis Cosmogony is that all things have been brought into existence by the Supreme Creative Will, a...
_AND GOD BLESSED THEM, SAYING, BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY, AND FILL THE WATERS IN THE SEAS, AND LET FOWL MULTIPLY IN THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
BLESSED THEM] As animate creatures they received a divine blessing, which suggests God's pleasure in the creation of beings capable of conscious enjoyment. 24-31. Sixth day:—Creation of animals and m...
THE CREATION 'The foundation of foundations and pillar of all wisdom is to know that the First Being is, and that He giveth existence to everything that exists! 'Thus wrote Moses Maimonides, a Jewish...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ ABOUT GENESIS Many people think that Moses wrote Genesis. If he did, other people probably helped him. And if he did, he may have used some of the words o...
EXCURSUS B: ON THE NAMES ELOHIM AND JEHOVAH-ELOHIM. Throughout the first account of creation (Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3) the Deity is simply called _Elohim._ This word is strictly a plural of _Eloah,...
BE FRUITFUL, AND MULTIPLY. — This blessing shows that the earth was replenished with animal life from a limited number of progenitors, and probably from a small number of centres, both for the flora a...
וַ יְבָ֧רֶךְ אֹתָ֛ם אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֵ אמֹ֑ר פְּר֣ו
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN CREATION'S CROWN Genesis 1:20 Creation reveals God's nature, as the picture the artist. His eternal Power and Godhead are visible in His works. See Romans 1:20. And all things and beings were mad...
The opening sentence of the Book of Genesis is an interpretation of the fact "that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear" Hebrews 11:3), and accounts for the things which are s...
"GOD CREATED" It should be noted the writer of this account is not concerned with science. However, no proven fact of science contradicts any scripture. The expression "and God" is used 28 times in Ge...
And God (r) blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. (r) That is, by the virtue of his word he gave power to his creatures...
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
22._And God blessed them _What is the force of this benediction he soon declares. For God does not, after the manner of men, pray that we may be blessed; but, by the bare intimation of his purpose, ef...
Let us examine then the contents of this book in order. First, we have the creation creation in which man is found placed on earth as centre and head. We have first the WORK of God, and then the REST...
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 God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth._ Ver. 22. _Be fruitful and multiply._] By bidding them do so, he made th...
_God blessed them_ Behold the cause of the continuance in existence, and of the fruitfulness and multiplication, of the sundry kinds of creatures! It is owing to this word only that, though thousands...
[THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.] 1 The creation of Heauen and Earth, 3 of the light, 6 of the firmament, 9 of the earth separated from the waters, 11 and made fruitfull, 14 of the Sunne, Moone, and...
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. As animate beings both the marine animals and those that inhabit the air r...
The Creation of Marine Animals and Birds...
THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD AND OF THE PRIMITIVE TIME OF THE HUMAN RACE, AS THE GENESIS OF THE PRIMITIVE RELIGION UNTIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEATHENDOM, AND OF ITS ANTITHESIS IN THE GERMINATING PATRIARCHAL...
In our human nature is a thirst to know about origins. God has given us this nature and God supplies the answer to our desire simply and decisively in the first statement of His own revelation to mank...
20-25 God commanded the fish and fowl to be produced. This command he himself executed. Insects, which are more numerous than the birds and beasts, and as curious, seem to have been part of this day's...
He gave them power of procreation and fruitfulness, which is justly mentioned as a great blessing, PSALMS 128:3. FILL THE WATERS IN THE SEAS; and consequently in the rivers, which come from the sea,...
There is something peculiarly striking in the manner in which the Holy Ghost opens this sublime book. He introduces us, at once, to God, in the essential fullness of His Being, and the solitariness of...
Genesis 1:22 God H430 blessed H1288 (H8762) saying H559 (H8800) fruitful H6509 (H8798) multiply H7235 ...
‘And God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heaven”. And God created the great sea mons...
Genesis 1 It is possible that God made at first only one kind of matter, the germ of all the universe. Indeed, Scripture seems to hint this in the sublime record of the origin of light: "And God said...
Genesis 1:1. _In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth._ When that «beginning» was, we cannot tell. It may have been long ages before God fitted up this world for the abode of man, but i...
CONTENTS: Original creation and the renovating of earth for habitation of man. Creation of animal and human life. CHARACTERS: God, Genesis 1:1. Spirit, Genesis 1:2. Christ, Genesis 1:26 (See...
_And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply_ GOD’S BLESSING ABUNDANT At the close of this day the Lord does what He has not done on any of the other four days; He blesses that which He h...
_Let the waters bring forth abundantly_ FISH AND FOWL I. THAT LIFE IS THE IMMEDIATE CREATION OF GOD. 1. Life was not an education. 2. It was not the result of combination. 3. It was a miraculous g...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:20 This section, on day 5, describes how the WATERS and the EXPANSE OF THE HEAVENS are filled with various kinds of creatures....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:26. Man] Heb. _’âdhâm_ (Adam). The reader of the Heb. can scarcely resist the impression that a close connection was meant to be seen between _’âdhâm_ “man,” and, _adhâmâh_...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 1:20. Creature] Here, and in Genesis 1:21; Genesis 1:24, “creature” stands for Heb. _nephesh_ (Sept. _psychê_), and in...
EXPOSITION 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 t...
Now on the third day, God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering to...
Genesis 1:28 Genesis 8:17 Genesis 9:1 Genesis 30:27 Genesis 30:30...
CREATION SCENES Genesis 1:11; Genesis 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 1:12, we find the story of God's command to t