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Verse Genesis 1:2. _THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID_] The
original term תהו _tohu_ and בהו _bohu_, which we translate
_without_ _form and void_, are of uncertain etymology; but in this
place, and...
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- II. The Land
היה _hāyah_, “be.” It is to be noted, however, that the word
has three meanings, two of which now scarcely belong to our English
“be.”
1. “Be, as an event, start into being, begin to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), by which, in
the 34 verses of this Introduction, each one of 102 separate acts are
emphasized; and the important word "God" in Genesis 1:1 is car...
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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...
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_And the earth_, &c. Notice, in the present verse, (1) that "darkness"
exists which God is not said to have made: (2) that "waters" exist
before the formation of the seas: (3) that "the spirit of God...
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AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID— In its first state the
earth, or the whole of the terraqueous globe, was a mere confused
chaos, without any regular form, or without any of its present
furnit...
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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...
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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...
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_AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID; AND DARKNESS WAS UPON THE
FACE OF THE DEEP. AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE
WATERS._
And the earth was without form, and void. The relation...
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1:2 waste (b-5) See Isaiah 34:11 ; Isaiah 45:18 ....
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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...
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GOD] Heb. _EloMm_. The word probably signifies 'strength,' but the
etymology is obscure; cp. Arabic _Allah._ The Heb. word is plural in
form, but as a rule it is significantly followed by verbs in the...
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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...
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AND THE EARTH. — The conjunction “and” negatives the well-meant
attempt to harmonise geology and Scripture by taking Genesis 1:1 as a
mere heading; the two verses go together, and form a general summa...
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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,...
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וְ הָ אָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָ
בֹ֔הוּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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And the earth was (b) without form, and void; and (c) darkness [was]
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God (d) moved upon the
face of the waters.
(b) As an unformed lump and without any cr...
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Spirit of God, giving life, vigour, and motion to things, and
preparing the waters for the sacred office of baptism, in which, by
the institution of Jesus Christ, we must be born again; and, like
spir...
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Mark! what a resemblance there is between the empty void of nature,
before the lights of heaven were introduced into the creation, and
that of the human soul before the light of grace hath passed upon...
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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...
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2._And the earth was without form and void. _I shall not be very
solicitous about the exposition of these two epithets, תוהו,
(_tohu,_) and בוהו, (_bohu._) The Hebrews use them when they
designate any...
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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...
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AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID,.... It was not in the form
it now is, otherwise it must have a form, as all matter has; it was a
fluid matter, the watery parts were not separated from the ea...
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_And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters._
Ver. 2. _And the earth was without form and void,_]...
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Gen. 1:2. "The earth was without form and void." The first state of
the earth, or this lower world, shows what it was to be afterwards,
_viz. _ a world of confusion and emptiness, full of evil, vanity...
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The _earth_ 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...
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[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...
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And the earth was without form and void. The material substance of
which the earth consists was in a state of chaos, the various elements
being intermingled in utter disorder. AND DARKNESS WAS UPON TH...
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The Creation of Chaos and Light...
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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...
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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...
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1,2 The first verse of the Bible gives us a satisfying and useful
account of the origin of the earth and the heavens. The faith of
humble Christians understands this better than the fancy of the most...
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The same confused mass or heap is here called both
EARTH, from its most solid and substantial part; and the
DEEP, from its vast bulk and depth; and WATERS, from its outward face
and covering. See PS...
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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...
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‘And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the
waters.'
“AND THE EARTH” - the connecting ‘' (‘ _waw_ ') really
excl...
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WITHOUT FORM AND VOID;
(Jeremiah 4:23); (Isaiah 24:1); (Isaiah 45:18) clearly indicate that
the earth had undergone a cataclysmic change as the result of divine
judgment. The face of the earth bears...
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Genesis 1:2
We should be sure we understand both Nature and Scripture before we
pronounce certainly on their agreement or disagreement, and it can
hardly be said that either is quite understood. To at...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the
face of the deep_
GENESIS OF ORDER
I. EXPLANATION OF THE PASSAGE.
1. The primeval chaos.
(1) Origin of chaos. The direct issue o...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:1 Primeval History. Genesis 1:1 surveys
the history of the world before Abraham, while chs....
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 1:2 Before the first actual day of creation
(vv. Genesis 1:3), the EARTH was WITHOUT FORM AND VOID (compare...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 1:1. In the beginning] Or, “at first,” “originally,”
“to start with:” Sept. _en archê_ (εν αρχῃ) as in John
1:1. GOD] Heb. _’Elohim_ (אֱלֹהִים): w. ref. to this
frequent and...
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EXPOSITION
I. THAT this initial section is not _history _is apparent from the
circumstance that the occurrences it describes belong to a period of
time which antedates the dawn of history. That it is...
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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...
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without. Job 26:7 Isaiah 45:18 Jeremiah 4:23 Nahum 2:10 Spirit. Job
26:14...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Where we have an account of the first matter, and the first Mover. 1.
A chaos was the first matter. 'Tis here called the earth, (tho' the
earth, properly taken, was not made 'till the third day, Genes...