E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 1:30
life = soul. Hebrew. nephesh. Compare Genesis 1:20 ; Genesis 2:7 and App-18 . I have given. Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 . a) correctly supplied from Genesis 1:29 . read more
創世記 1:29-30 Rcuvts
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 1:29-31
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food: and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:29
Genesis 1:29. It shall be for meat— It is evident from this grant of food to man, in the present verse, and from that to the brute animals in the next, that the use of flesh in the beginning was allowed to neither: and, consequently, that the now carnivorous animals then fed upon grass, &c. as the tame ones amongst us do at present. The ancients mention this as one characteristic of the golden age: "Not so the golden age, who fed on fruit, Nor durst with bloody meals their hands pollute." read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 1:3-31
3. The six days of creation 1:3-31Cosmic order consists of clearly demarcating the various elements of the universe. God divided light and darkness, waters and dry land, the world above from the world below. Likewise people should maintain the other divisions in the universe. [Note: See Mathews, p. 124.] In three "days" God made the uninhabitable earth productive, and in three more "days" He filled the uninhabited earth with life. The process of creation, as Moses described it, typically... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 1:24-31
The sixth day 1:24-31 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 1:29-31
God gave man authority and responsibility to regulate nature and to advance civilization. Nature was to serve man, not vice versa. This does not give man the right to abuse nature, however. [Note: See Gina Hens-Piazza, "A Theology of Ecology: God’s Image and the Natural World," Biblical Theology Bulletin 13:4 (October 1983):107-110.] Neither does it justify giving animals and plants the "rights" of human beings."Man is the climax of creation, and instead of man providing the gods with food, God... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:1-31
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 scholar of the 12th cent, a.d., concerning whom the Jewish proverb runs: 'From Moses to Moses there arose none like Moses.' He had in his mind the opening chapter of the Bible, the object of which is to lay this foundation; to declare the existence of the One God; to teach that the Universe was... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 1:1-31
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, which is used as the name of God only in poetry, or in late books like those of Nehemiah and Daniel. It is there an Aramaism, God in Syriac being Aloho, in Ohaldee Ellah, and in Arabic Allahu—all of which are merely dialectic varieties of the Hebrew Eloah, and are used constantly in the singular... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 1:29
(29) Every herb bearing seed . . . every tree.—Of the three classes of plants enumerated in Genesis 1:11, the two most perfect kinds are given to man for his food; while in Genesis 1:30 the birds and animals have not merely the cryptogamous plants of the first class, but every green herb granted to them for their sustenance. We are not to suppose that they did not eat seeds and fruits, but that the fundamental supply for the maintenance of animal life was the blade and leaf, and that of human... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 1:29
bearing seed . . . yielding seed. Heb, "seeding seed". Figure of speech Polyptoton ( App-6 ) for emph. for meat. Not flesh till after the Flood (Genesis 9:3 ). read more