That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.
The sabbath insituted and blessed, Gen 2:2-3. A rehearsal of the creation; and, (1.) Of vegetables, Gen 2:4-5. The earth watered, Gen 2:6. (2.) Of man, Gen 2:7. His habitation, Gen 2:8-9. Trees for his delight and food; as also the tree of life and knowledge, Gen 2:9. Its pleasant situation and riches, Gen 2:10-14. Man’s employment, Gen 2:15. Every tree given him but that of knowledge, Gen 2:16. This denied on pain of death, Gen 2:17. A purpose to create the woman, and the reason thereof, Gen 2:18. Beasts and fowls named by Adam, Gen 2:19-20. The woman made of Adam’s rib, presented to him, Gen 2:21-22, and owned by him, Gen 2:23. Marriage ordained, Gen 2:24. Their state whilst innocent, Gen 2:25.
Verses 1-3 After six days, God ceased from all works of creation. In miracles, he has overruled nature, but never changed its settled course, or added to it. God did not rest as one weary, but as one well pleased. Notice the beginning of the kingdom of grace, in the sanctification, or keeping holy, of the sabbath day. The solemn observing of one day in seven as a day of holy rest and holy work, to God's honour, is the duty of all to whom God has made known his holy sabbaths. At this time none of the human race were in being but our first parents. For them the sabbath was appointed; and clearly for all succeeding generations also. The Christian sabbath, which we observe, is a seventh day, and in it we celebrate the rest of God the Son, and the finishing the work of our redemption.
That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.
That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.
We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, v. 1, 2. Here observe, 1. The creatures made both in heaven and earth are the hosts or armies of them, which denotes them to be numerous, but marshalled, disciplined, and under command. How great is the sum of them! And yet every one knows and keeps his place. God uses them as his hosts for the defence of his people and the destruction of his enemies; for he is the Lord of hosts, of all these hosts, Dan 4 35. 2. The heavens and the earth are finished pieces, and so are all the creatures in them. So perfect is God's work that nothing can be added to it nor taken from it, Eccl 3 14. God that began to build showed himself well able to finish. 3. After the end of the first six days God ceased from all works of creation. He has so ended his work as that though, in his providence, he worketh hitherto (John 5 17), preserving and governing all the creatures, and particularly forming the spirit of man within him, yet he does not make any new species of creatures. In miracles, he has controlled and overruled nature, but never changed its settled course, nor repealed nor added to any of its establishments. 4. The eternal God, though infinitely happy in the enjoyment of himself, yet took a satisfaction in the work of his own hands. He did not rest, as one weary, but as one well-pleased with the instances of his own goodness and the manifestations of his own glory.
Furniture, ornaments or militia, whether we understand the Angels, or the stars, which observe a regular order and obey God. (Menochius)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.