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Genesis 1:3-4
God made light because it would be necessary later. Later, he made plants. Plants cannot grow if there is no light. Later, he made animals and men. They cannot see if there is no light.
God made light because it would be necessary later. Later, he made plants. Plants cannot grow if there is no light. Later, he made animals and men. They cannot see if there is no light.
Verse Genesis 1:3. _AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT_] הי אור ויהי אור YEHI OR, _vaihi or_. Nothing can be conceived more dignified than this form of expression. It argues at once uncontrollable auth...
- III. The First Day 3. אמר _'āmar_, “say, bid.” After this verb comes the thing said in the words of the speaker, or an equivalent expression. In this respect it corresponds with our English “say.”...
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...
A. THE PRIESTLY STORY OF CREATION. This section belongs to the Priestly Document (P). This is shown by the use of several of its characteristic terms, by the constant repetition of the formulæ, and by...
Since the formula These are the generations of is usually placed by P at the beginning of a section, whereas here it occurs at the end (Genesis 2:4_a_), it is thought by many that its present position...
GOD SAID (occurs 10 times in Introduction). This begins each day: 3rd day twice; 6th day four times. The second act is also of God (1 Peter 1:23). App-5. BE LIGHT. become light (as in Genesis 1:2), n...
The First Day 3. _And God said_ Observe here that the spoken Word is the only means employed throughout the six days" Creation, cf. Psalms 33:6; Psalms 33:9, "By the word of the Lord were the heavens...
The Beginning of all Things, and the First Creation Day 1. _In the beginning B'rêshîth_: LXX ἐν ἀρχῇ : Lat. _in principio_. This opening word expresses the idea of the earliest time imaginable. It co...
AND GOD SAID— _To speak_ and _to will,_ with the Almighty, is to _command._ His word is with power. Struck with the grandeur of this passage, the celebrated Grecian critic Longinus produces it as an i...
Day One: Energy-Matter, Motion, Light (Genesis 1:2-5) _And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters_. 1. The w...
PART SIX: THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE COSMIC WEEK OF BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:2-19 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The verb _bara,_ translated create, writes Skinner (ICC, 15) is u...
_AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT: AND THERE WAS LIGHT._ Let there be light, х_ YªHIY_ (H1961) _ 'OWR_ (H216)]. It is deserving of particular notice that the substantive verb is used here, and not ei...
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...
AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT] A sublime sentence! 'By the word of the Lord were the heavens made.' Light and darkness are regarded as two objects, each occupying a place of its own (Job 38:19). Li...
THE CREATIVE DAYS. (3) AND GOD SAID. — Voice and sound there could be none, nor was there any person to whom God addressed this word of power. The phrase, then, is metaphorical, and means that God ena...
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,...
וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י אֹ֑ור וַֽ יְהִי
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...
BEGINNINGS Genesis 1:1 All beginnings must begin with God. Always put God first. The first stone in every building, our first thought every morning, the first aim and purpose of all activity. Begin t...
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 said, Let there be light: and there was (e) light. (e) The light was made before either Sun or Moon was created: therefore we must not attribute that to the creatures that are God's instrumen...
. Light. The sun was made on the fourth day, and placed in the firmament to distinguish the seasons, &c.; but the particles of fire were created on the first day, and by their, or the earth's motion,...
2 Corinthians 4:6. Is it not a sweet thought, that the same Spirit which gave light to the old creation gives light to the new....
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...
_‘ALL THE BLESSINGS OF THE LIGHT’_ “And God said, Let there be light.’ Genesis 1:3 I. WE HAVE REASON EVERY DAY THAT WE LIVE TO THANK GOD FOR LIFE AND HEALTH, FOR COUNTLESS BLESSINGS. And not least...
3._And God said _Moses now, for the first time, introduces God in the act of _speaking_, as if he had created the mass of heaven and earth without the Word. (48) Yet John testifies that ‘without him...
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 SAID,.... This phrase is used, nine times in this account of the creation; it is admired by Longinus the Heathen in his treatise "of the Sublime", as a noble instance of it; and it is most bea...
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Ver. 3. _And God saith, Let there, &c._] He commanded the "light to shine out of darkness." 2Co 4:6 "He spake the word, and it was done." Psalms...
_God said_ Not by an articulate voice; for to whom should he speak? but in his own eternal mind. He willed that the effect here mentioned should be produced, and it was produced. This act of his almig...
[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 said, Let there be light; and there was light. God spoke; the almighty Word of God is here introduced, the second person of the Godhead, John 1:3. The creation of the world is a work of the Tr...
The Creation of Chaos and Light...
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...
3-5 God said, Let there be light; he willed it, and at once there was light. Oh, the power of the word of God! And in the new creation, the first thing that is wrought in the soul is light: the bless...
HE COMMANDED, not by such a word or speech as we use, which agreeth not with the spiritual nature of God; but either by an act of his powerful will, called the word of his power, HEBREWS 1:3 or, by hi...
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 1:3 God H430 said H559 (H8799) be H1961 (H8799) light H216 was H1961 light H216 Earth - 3's...
‘And God said, “Let there be light”, and there was light.' This is God's first ‘action'. Here was a ‘big bang' indeed. The writer is brief and to the point. God speaks and light is. That which was wit...
LET THERE BE LIGHT Neither here nor in (Genesis 1:14) is an original creative act implied. A different word is used. The sense is, made to appear; made visible. The sun and moon were created "in the...
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...
_Let there be light_ THE CREATION OF LIGHT I. DIVINELY PRODUCED. 1. For the protection of life. Plants could not live without light; without it, the flowers would soon wither. Even in a brief night...
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 1:3 AND GOD SAID. God’s absolute power is seen in that he merely speaks and things are created. Each new section of ch. Genesis 1:1 is introduced by
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 u...
Shall we now turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter one, verse one? The word Genesis in Hebrew means "beginning." And so, it is "the book of the beginnings", and in Genesis we find the beginning of the...
God. Psalms 33:6 Psalms 33:9 Psalms 148:5 Matthew 8:3 John 11:43 Let....
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Genesis 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have a very interesting study to set before you today. Most of us realize how vital a part the Holy Spirit plays in our own exp...
IN THE BEGINNING GOD Genesis 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In these days of humanizing God, we need to give more time to the study of God's eternity. The Bible opens with the expression, "In the beginning...
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF CREATION Genesis 1:1; _Revelation 21:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. The Book of Genesis is commonly known as the Book of beginnings. It is there t...
We have here a farther account of the first day's work. In which observe, 1. That the first of all visible beings which God created was light, the great beauty and blessing of the universe: like the f...