Gen. 2:2. "And on the seventh day God ended all his works." The [Hebrew] word translated _work_, which comes from [the Hebrew word for] _angel _ or _messenger_, and therefore most properly signifies _a work done in the execution of some function to which the workman is appointed, as the angel, messe... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 2:3. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, etc." It is rendered very probable by Bedford in his Scripture Chronology,"[1730 folio. - G.] that this first Sabbath being the first day of Adam's life, and so the first day from whence he began to reckon time, was the first day of his... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 2:5. "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." This seems to be observed to teach that all the life that is in the creation is imme... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 2:9 (and Genesis 3:22; Genesis 3:23; Genesis 3:24). _Concerning the Tree of Life._ This tree seems manifestly to have been designed for a seal of Adam's confirmation in life, in case he had stood, for two reasons: 1st, because its distinguishing name is the tree of life; and 2nd, because by... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 2:17. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt die." This expression denotes not only the certainty of death, but the extremity of it. Thou shalt die, in the superlative and to the utmost degree; and so it properly extends to the second death, the death of the soul; for damnation... [ Continue Reading ]
Gen. 2:21. "Adam received Eve as he awaked out of a deep sleep;" so Christ receives his church as he rises from the dead. Dr. Goodwin speaks of this deep sleep of Adam as a type of Christ's death, 1st vol. of his Works, part 3, p.58.... [ Continue Reading ]