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Creation vs. Cultivation
Commentators explain that this verse distinguishes between God's initial, direct creation of plants and their subsequent natural growth. The first plants were made supernaturally by God's command, without the need for rain or human labor. This highlights that God can work both through direct, miraculous acts and through the natural processes He established to sustain the world.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 2:4–7
18th Century
Theologian
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תולדות tôledôt “generations, products, developments.” That which comes from any source, as the chi…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 2:4–25
19th Century
Bishop
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
Charles Spurgeon
On Genesis 2:1–8
19th Century
Preacher
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he res…
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John Calvin
On Genesis 2:5
16th Century
Theologian
And every plant. This verse is connected with the preceding and must be read in continuation with it, for he connects the plants and herbs…
John Gill
On Genesis 2:5
17th Century
Pastor
And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, &c.] That is, God made it, even he who made the heavens and the…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 2:4–7
17th Century
Minister
Here is a name given to the Creator, ���Jehovah.��� When the word ���LORD��� is printed in capital letters in our English Bibles, in the original i…