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Verse Genesis 1:26. _AND GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN_] It is evident
that God intends to impress the mind of man with a sense of something
extraordinary in the formation of his body and soul, when he
i...
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- VIII. The Sixth Day
24. בהמה _b__e__hēmâh_, “cattle; dumb, tame beasts.”
רמשׂ _remeś_, “creeping (small or low) animals.”
חוּה _chayâh_, “living thing; animal.”
חוּת־חארץ
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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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The sixth day is occupied with the creation of the land animals and of
man. It is natural that a much fuller space than usual should be
accorded to the latter. And the solemnity of the act is marked b...
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THE BEGINNING. -- Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:1-3.
GOLDEN TEXT. --_ In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth._ -- Genesis 1:1. TIME. --Unknown. Placed by Usher B. C. 4004.
PLACE. --Ede
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LET US. The Divine _purpose_ is here stated. The Divine _act_ not
described till Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:21.
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_ (no Art.). mankind.
IMAGE... LIKENESS. Figure of speech _Hendiadys._ A...
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_Let us make_, &c. The creation of man, although taking place on the
same day with that of the land animals, is a completely separate
creative act. It constitutes the climax and the crown of Creation....
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_Let us make_ LXX ποιήσωμεν, Lat. _faciamus_. The use of the
1st pers. plur. is a well-known _crux_of interpretation. How are we to
explain its occurrence in the utterance of the Almighty? The only
ot...
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Sixth Day:
(_a_) Creation of the Land Animals (Genesis 1:24);
(_b_) Creation of Man (Genesis 1:26);
(_c_) The End of the Creation (Genesis 1:31),...
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LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE— Behold the finishing stroke of the
Divine Creator, Man, the last and greatest work of God. Animal life
was produced: but now at last the crown of creation is brought fort...
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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...
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Day Six: Land Animals, Man, Naming of the Animal Tribes, Woman
(Genesis 1:24-31)
And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their
kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of t...
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_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 OVE...
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1:26 man (c-7) Or 'men,' 'mankind.' _ adam_ , earthy....
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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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LET US MAKE MAN] the crowning work of creation and its highest
development. The plural form 'us,' which occurs again Genesis 3:22;
Genesis 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8, has been interpreted of the Holy Trinity...
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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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People are images of God. This does not mean that man’s body is like
God. Man’s body is like an animal. But man’s spirit is like God.
And so man can know God.
God said, ‘Let us make people.’ He did n...
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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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LET US MAKE MAN. — Comp. Genesis 11:7. The making of man is so
ushered in as to show that at length the work of creation had reached
its perfection and ultimate goal. As regards the use of the plural...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה
אָדָ֛ם בְּ צ
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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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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...
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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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MAN IS DIFFERENT
Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was
different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the
earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
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And God said, (s) Let us make man in our (t) 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,...
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Let us make man to our image. This image of God in man, is not in the
body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with
understanding and free-will. God speaketh here in the plural nu...
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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...
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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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_THE DIVINE IMAGE IN MAN_
‘And God said, Let us make man in our image.’
Genesis 1:26
It is not too much to say that redemption itself, with all its graces
and all its glories, finds its explanation...
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26._Let us make man _(83) Although the tense here used is the future,
all must acknowledge that this is the language of one apparently
deliberating. Hitherto God has been introduced simply as _command...
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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 GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS,....
These words are directed not to the earth, out of which man was made,
as consulting with it, and to be assisting in the formation of...
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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...
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_God said, Let us make man_ We have here another and still more
important part of the sixth day's work, the creation of man. Having
prepared a fit habitation for man, and furnished it with all things...
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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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The Creation and Blessing of Man...
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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 eve...
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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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26-28 Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honour
and a favour to him. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts
were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and whi...
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God had now prepared all things necessary for man's use and comfort.
The plurals US and OUR afford an evident proof of a plurality of
persons in the Godhead. It is plain from many other texts, as well...
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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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‘Then 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
birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and...
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MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE
Man. (Genesis 1:26); (Genesis 1:27); gives the general, (Genesis
2:7); (Genesis 2:21) the particular account of th
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Genesis 1:26
It is not too much to say that redemption, with all its graces and all
its glories, finds its explanation and its reason in creation. He who
thought it worth while to create, foreseeing c...
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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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_Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness_
THE CREATION OF MAN
I. THAT THE CREATION OF MAN WAS PRECEDED BY A DIVINE CONSULTATION.
1. This consultation was Divine. Held by the Three Persons...
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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 1:26 LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE. Some have
suggested that God may be addressing the members of his heavenly
court, whom the OT elsewhere calls “sons of God” (e.g.,...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 1:24_
THE ANIMAL WORLD
I. That the Animal World was created by God. All the creeping things
of the earth are created by God. The cattle upon a thousand hil...
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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_...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 1:21
_Day_ _six_._ _Like day three, this is distinguished by a double
creative act, the production of the higher or land animals and the
creation of man, of the latter of which it...
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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...
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Let us. Genesis 3:22 Genesis 11:7 Job 35:10 Psalms 100:3 Psalms 149:2...
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THE BEGINNING AND THE BEGINNING AGAIN
Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the
Bible, and in its opening Chapter s we have the...
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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
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We have here the second part of the sixth day's work, the creation of
man, which we are in a special manner concerned to take notice of.
Observe, That man was made last of all the creatures, which was...
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Why does the Bible use the plural “us” when God refers to Himself?
PROBLEM: Orthodox Christian and Jewish scholars maintain that God is
one. In fact, the historic confession of the faith of Israel is...