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Selected Verse: Genesis 1:28 - Douay Rheims
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ge 1:28 |
Douay Rheims |
And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. |
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King James |
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Be fruitful, &c.--The human race in every country and age has been the offspring of the first pair. Amid all the varieties found among men, some black, some copper-colored, others white, the researches of modern science lead to a conclusion, fully accordant with the sacred history, that they are all of one species and of one family (Act 17:26). What power in the word of God! "He spake and it was done. He commanded and all things stood fast" [Psa 33:9]. "Great and manifold are thy works, Lord God Almighty! in wisdom hast thou made them all" [Psa 104:24]. We admire that wisdom, not only in the regular progress of creation, but in its perfect adaptation to the end. God is represented as pausing at every stage to look at His work. No wonder He contemplated it with complacency. Every object was in its right place, every vegetable process going on in season, every animal in its structure and instincts suited to its mode of life and its use in the economy of the world. He saw everything that He had made answering the plan which His eternal wisdom had conceived; and, "Behold it was very good" [Gen 1:31]. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
DISPENSATION
A dispensation is a period of time during which man is tested in respect of obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God. Seven such dispensations are distinguished in Scripture.
(See Scofield) - (Gen 1:28), note 5.
And God blessed them
The First Dispensation: Innocency. Man was created in innocency, placed in a perfect environment, subjected to an absolutely simple test, and warned of the consequence of disobedience. The woman fell through pride; the man deliberately. (Ti1 2:14) God restored His sinning creatures, but the dispensation of innocency ended in the judgment of the Expulsion (Gen 3:24) See, for the other dispensations;
Conscience
(See Scofield) - (Gen 3:23).
Human Government
(See Scofield) - (Gen 8:21).
Promise
(See Scofield) - (Gen 12:1).
Law
(See Scofield) - (Exo 19:8).
Grace
(See Scofield) - (Joh 1:17)
Kingdom
(See Scofield) - (Eph 1:10).
Be fruitful
The Edenic Covenant, the first of the eight great covenants of Scripture which condition life and salvation, and about which all Scripture crystallizes, has seven elements. The man and woman in Eden were responsible:
(1) To replenish the earth with a new order -- man;
(2) to subdue the earth to human uses;
(3) to have dominion over the animal creation;
(4) to eat herbs and fruits;
(5) to till and keep the garden;
(6) to abstain from eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil;
(7) the penalty -- death. See, for the other seven covenants:
ADAMIC
(See Scofield) - (Gen 3:14)
NOAHIC
(See Scofield) - (Gen 9:1)
ABRAHAMIC
(See Scofield) - (Gen 15:18)
MOSAIC
(See Scofield) - (Exo 19:25)
PALESTINIAN
(See Scofield) - (Deu 30:3)
DAVIDIC
(See Scofield) - (Sa2 7:16)
NEW
(See Scofield) - (Heb 8:8) |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| And God blessed them - Marked them as being under his especial protection, and gave them power to propagate and multiply their own kind on the earth. A large volume would be insufficient to contain what we know of the excellence and perfection of man, even in his present degraded fallen state. Both his body and soul are adapted with astonishing wisdom to their residence and occupations; and also the place of their residence, as well as the surrounding objects, in their diversity, color, and mutual relations, to the mind and body of this lord of the creation. The contrivance, arrangement, action, and re-action of the different parts of the body, show the admirable skill of the wondrous Creator; while the various powers and faculties of the mind, acting on and by the different organs of this body, proclaim the soul's Divine origin, and demonstrate that he who was made in the image and likeness of God, was a transcript of his own excellency, destined to know, love, and dwell with his Maker throughout eternity. |
31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies,
9 O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him.
26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith: Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect unto the house of Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new testament:
16 And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.
3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.
25 And Moses went down to the people and told them all.
18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
1 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth.
14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and the beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
10 In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.
17 For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
8 And all the people answered together: All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Moses had related the people's words to the Lord,
1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of they father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.
23 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
24 And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
14 And Adam was not seduced; but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression.
28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.