創世記 2:18-20 RCUVTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:18-25

The true life of man. The commencement of human society. First we see man surrounded by cattle, fowl, and beast of the field, which were brought to him by God as to their lord and ruler, that he might name them as from himself. "What he called every living creature was the name thereof." Nothing could better represent the organization of the earthly life upon the basis of man's supremacy. But there is no helpmeet for man ("as before him ," the reflection of himself) in all the lower... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:19

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air. To allege that the Creator's purpose to provide a helpmeet for Adam seeks realization through the production of the animals (Kalisch, Alford) proceeds upon a misapprehension of the proper nexus which binds the thoughts of the historian, and a want of attention to the peculiar structure of Hebrew composition, besides exhibiting Jehovah Elohim in the character of an empiric who only tentatively... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:20

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. The portrait here delineated of the first man is something widely different from that of an infantile savage slowly groping his way towards the possession of articulate speech and intelligible language by imitation of the sounds of animals. Speech and language both spring full-formed, though not completely matured, from the primus homo of the Bible. As to the names that Adam gave the animals,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:18

- XIII. The Naming of the AnimalsHere man’s intellectual faculties proceed from the passive and receptive to the active and communicative stage. This advance is made in the review and designation of the various species of animals that frequent the land and skies.A new and final need of man is stated in Genesis 2:18. The Creator himself, in whose image he was made, had revealed himself to him in language. This, among many other effects, awakened the social affection. This affection was the index... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:19

Here, as in several previous instances Genesis 1:5; Genesis 2:4, Genesis 2:8-9, the narrative reverts to the earlier part of the sixth day. This is, therefore, another example of the connection according to thought overruling that according to time. The order of time, however, is restored, when we take in a sufficient portion of the narrative. We refer, therefore, to the fifth verse, which is the regulative sentence of the present passage. The second clause in the verse, however, which in the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:20

We find, however, there was another end served by this review of the animals. “There was not found a helpmeet for the man” - an equal, a companion, a sharer of his thoughts, his observations, his joys, his purposes, his enterprises. It was now evident, from actual survey, that none of these animals, not even the serpent, was possessed of reason, of moral and intellectual ideas, of the faculties of abstracting and naming, of the capacities of rational fellowship or worship. They might be... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:18

Genesis 2:18. God said Had said on the sixth day, when the woman was made. It is not good that man should be alone Though there was an upper world of angels and lower world of brutes, yet, there being none of the same rank of beings with himself, he might be truly said to be alone. It is not good: it was neither for man’s comfort, who was formed for society, and not for solitude nor for the accomplishment of God’s purpose in the increase of mankind. A help meet for him כנגדו , ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:19

Genesis 2:19. God brought all the beasts to Adam Either by the ministry of angels, or by a special instinct, that he might name them, and so might give a proof of his knowledge, the names he gave them being perfectly descriptive of their inmost nature. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4-25

2:4-4:26 EARLY HUMAN LIFELife in the Garden of Eden (2:4-25)From this point on, the story concentrates on the people God made, rather than on other features of the created universe. Again the Bible states that the world was not always as it is now, but was prepared stage by stage till it was suitable for human habitation. God created Adam (meaning ‘man’ or ‘mankind’) not out of nothing, but out of materials he had previously created. Like the other animals, Adam had his physical origins in the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:18

meet = as his counterpart. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 2:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 2:19

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:4-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:18

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