By sin, men have departed and separated themselves from God but God, in His infinite mercy, has not cut himself off from men, His creatures.
Romans 8:19.) his redemption from the fall will be completed in and with the glorification of the heavens and the earth ( Isaiah 65:17 Isaiah 66:22 2 Peter 3:13 Revelation 21:1).
His fall from God brought death and corruption into the whole creation ( Genesis 3:17. The history of the world and of the kingdom of God begins with him. The creation of the heaven and the earth, therefore, receives as its centre, paradise and in paradise, man, created in the image of God, is the head and crown of all created beings. Genesis commences with the creation of the world, because the heavens and the earth form the appointed sphere, so far as time and space are concerned, for the kingdom of God because God, according to His eternal counsel, appointed the world to be the scene both for the revelation of His invisible essence, and also for the operations of His eternal love within and among His creatures and because in the beginning He created the world to be and to become the kingdom of God.
Commencing with the creation of the heaven and the earth, and concluding with the death of the patriarchs Jacob and Joseph, this book supplies us with information with regard not only to the first beginnings and earlier stages of the world and of the human race, but also to those of the divine institutions which laid the foundation for the kingdom of God. of the lxx, and is called liber creationis by the Rabbins, has received the name of Genesis from its entire contents. The first book of Moses, which has the superscription בראשׁיח in the original, Γένεσις Κόσμον in the Cod.
The apodosis with its promises commences with ויִרַחֲמֵהוּ - then will He have compassion upon such a man and consequently לִסְלוֹחַ כִּי־יַרְבֶּה (with כִּי because the fragmentary sentence וְאֶל־אֱלֹהֵינוּ did not admit of the continuation with וְ) has not a general, but an individual meaning (vid., Psa_130:4, Psa_130:7), and is to be translated as a future (for the expression, compare Isa_26:17).Įdited by Tim Butterfield, 14 August 2017 - 06:12 AM.Contents, Design, and Plan of the Book of Genesis In the admonition to repentance introduced in Isa_55:7, both sides of the μετάνοια find expression, viz., turning away from sinful self-will, and turning to the God of salvation. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have compassion upon him and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” They are to seek to press into the fellowship of Jehovah (dârash with the radical meaning terere, to acquire experimental knowledge or confidential acquaintance with anything) now that He is to be found (Isa_65:1, compare the parallelism of words and things in Jer_29:14), and to call upon Him, viz., for a share in that superabundant grace, now that He is near, i.e., now that He approaches Israel, and offers it. Hence the exhortation is addressed to it in Isa_55:6 and Isa_55:7: “Seek ye Jehovah while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near. So gracious is the offer which Jehovah now makes to His people, so great are the promises that He makes to it, viz., the regal glory of David, and the government of the world by virtue of the religion of Jehovah.