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You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
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God's Continuous Creation
Commentators agree that this verse describes God's ongoing creative work. He doesn't just create once and leave it. By sending His life-giving power, He constantly brings forth new generations and renews the earth, as seen in the changing seasons. This reveals God as the active and constant sustainer of all life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created - That is, new generations are created in their place, or spring up as if they were…
19th Century
Anglican
Spirit. —Rather, breath, as in Psalm 104:29. We must not here think of the later theological doctrine of the Holy Spirit.…
Baptist
When God takes away the life-giving light of the summer's sun, what multitudes of creatures die; and then, when the soft breath of spring blows upo…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You send forth your Spirit, they are created Your Holy Spirit, as the Targum, who was at first concerned in the crea…
We are to praise and magnify God for the constant succession of day and night. And see how those who wait for the twilight and have fellowship with…
