Genesis 1:26-28,Colossians 3:1-17

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 1:26-31

The Beginning and the Beginning Again Genesis 1:26-31 ; Genesis 2:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The word Genesis means the "beginning." It is the first Book of the Bible, and in its opening chapters we have the story of the beginning of the original creation, of the earth renewed and blessed, of the creation of man and of woman, of the vision of the Garden of Eden, of the entrance of sin and Satan, of the pronunciation of the curse, etc. The Book of Revelation is the Book of the "new beginning."... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:26

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 and its reason in creation. Mystery, indeed, besets us on every side. There is one insoluble mystery—the entrance, the existence of evil. It might have been fatal, whencesoever derived, whithersoever traceable, to the regard of God for the work of His own hands. He might have turned away with disgust... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:26

‘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 over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth”.’ “Let us make man.” The thought is intimate and personal, and carefully considered. Here will be one who has connections with the infinite, and Heaven is called on to consider this special act of creation, and indeed to participate in it to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:27

‘So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.’ Now man’s privilege is stressed. He is created in God’s own image. Notice the stress on the fact that he is ‘created’, deliberately repeated three times in the verse. Three represents completeness. Again this is something totally new which does not come from what existed before. While his body is of the earth, his essential being is made in the likeness of God and the angels. However the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:28

‘And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the face of the earth”.’ Like the living creatures man is ‘blessed’. They are to produce children and populate the earth. This again brings out that sexual functions, rightly used, are blessed by God. The verb ‘subdue’ is strong, as is ‘have dominion’. The latter means... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:1-31

Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4 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 the formal arrangement. P’ s interest in the origin of religious institutions is displayed in the explanation of the origin of the Sabbath. The lofty monotheism of the section is also characteristic of his theological position.The story rests upon a much older... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:24-31

Genesis 1:24-Obadiah : . 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 by the formula of deliberation, “ Let us make man.” The plural has been variously explained. Setting aside as beyond the range of the OT the view that the Father addresses the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the view that God speaks of Himself in the plural since He is the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:26

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 as from the nature and reason of the thing, that God alone is man’s Creator: the angels rejoiced at the work of creation, but only God wrought it, Job 38:4-7. And it is no less plain from this text, and from divers other places, that man had more Creators than one person: see Job 35:10; John... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:27

Not both together, as some of the Jews have fabled, but successively, the woman after and out of the man, as is more particularly related, Genesis 2:21, &c., which is here mentioned by anticipation. Albeit the woman also seems to have been made upon the sixth day, as is here related, and as the following blessing showeth, which is common to both of them, though the particular history of it is brought in afterwards, Genesis 2:1-25, by way of recapitulation or repetition. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:28

Having blessed them with excellent natures, and heavenly gifts and graces, he further blesseth them with a special and temporal blessing expressed in the following words. Replenish the earth, with inhabitants to be begotten by you. Question. Whether this be a command obliging all men to marriage and procreation? So the Hebrew doctors think. It may be thus resolved: 1. It is a command obliging all men so far as not to suffer the extinction of mankind: thus it did absolutely bind Adam and Eve, as... read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Genesis 1:26-31

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 1:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:27

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:28

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:1-31

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 1:24-31

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:26

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:27

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 1:28

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