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Monday, November 30th, 2020

Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary the First Week of Advent
Genesis 1:8
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Genesis 1:7 Genesis 1 Genesis 1:9

God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was
morning, a second day.

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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible Other Authors

And God called the firmament heaven,.... Including the starry and airy heavens: Range Specific
it has its name from its height in the Arabic language, it being above the earth, and Barne's Notes
reaching to the third heaven; though others take the word "shamaim" to be a Chuck Smith
compound of two words, "sham" and "maim", that is, there are waters, namely, in Commentary
the clouds of heaven: Hole's Commentary
Meyer's Commentary
and the evening; and the morning were the second day; these together made
Gary Hampton
up the space of twenty four hours, which was another natural day; the body of
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light, created on the first day, having again moved round the chaos in that space of
time; or else the chaos had turned round on its own axis in that time, which Everett's Study Notes
revolution produced a second day; and which, according to Capellus, was the Commentary Critical and
nineteenth of April, and according to Bishop Usher the twenty fourth of October. It Explanatory - Unabridged
is an observation that everyone may make, that the phrase, The People's Bible
Keil & Delitzsch
and God saw that it was good, is not used at the close of this day's work, as of Kretzmann's Popular
the rest: the reason some Jewish writers give is, because the angels fell on this Commentary of the Bible
day; but it is a much better which Jarchi gives, and that is, because the work of the
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waters was not finished; it was begun on the second day, and perfected on the
Henry's Complete
thirdF4; and therefore the phrase is twice used in the account of the third day's
Henry's Concise
work: the Septuagint version adds it here indeed, but without any foundation.
Pett's Bible Commentary
Peake's Bible
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Bibliography
Gill, John. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". Biblical Illustrator
https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/genesis-1.html. 1999. Pulpit Commentaries ADVERTISEMENT
Wesley's Notes
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Geneva Study Bible

And God called the firmament g Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

(g) That is, the region of the air, and all that is above us.

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Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/genesis-
1.html. 1599-1645.

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Scofield's Reference Notes

firmament i.e. the expanse above, the "heaven" of the clouds. Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:2.

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Bibliography
Scofield, C. I. "Scofield Reference Notes on Genesis 1:8". "Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)".
https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/srn/genesis-1.html. 1917.

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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Ver. 8. And the evening, &c.] Here is no mention of God’s approbation of this second day’s work. Not for that
hell was then created, or the reprobate angels then ejected, as the Jews give as the reason of it; but because
this day’s work was left unperfected, till the next; to the which, therefore, the blessing was reserved, and is then
redoubled. God delights to do his works, not all at once, but by degrees, that we may take time to contemplate
them piecemeal, and see him in every one of them, as in an optic glass. "Consider the lilies of the field," saith
our Saviour. {Kαταµαηετε Matthew 6:28} "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," saith Solomon. [Proverbs 6:6] Luther
(a) wished Pontanus, Chancellor of Saxony, to contemplate the star-chamber of heaven, that stupendous
archwork borne up by no props or pillars, and yet not falling on our heads: the thick clouds also hanging often
over us with great weight, and yet vanishing again, when they have greeted us but with their threatening looks.
And cannot God as easily uphold his sinking saints, and blow over any storm that hangs over their heads? An
artificer takes it ill, if when he hath finished some intricate piece of work, and sets it forth to be seen, as Apelles
was wont to do, men slight it, and take no notice of his handiwork. And is there not a woe to such stupid
persons as "regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands?." [Isaiah 5:12] He was
telling any tale from a bowl but that one stirred our ears, {A sino quispiam narrabat fabulam, at ille movebat
aures} is a proverb among the Greeks. Christ was by at the creation, and rejoiced; [Proverbs 8:30] angels also
were by at the doing of a great deal, and were wrapped with admiration. [Job 38:4-7] Shall they shout for joy,
and we be silent? Oh, how should we vex at the vile dulness of our hearts, that are no more affected with these
indelible ravishments!

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Bibliography
Trapp, John. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/genesis-
1.html. 1865-1868.

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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable

"Heaven" is the same as the "expanse." Moses used it here as a general term to describe everything
above the earth from man"s viewpoint ( Genesis 1:8).

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Constable, Thomas. DD. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable".
https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/genesis-1.html. 2012.

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

8. God called the firmament Heaven — Rather, called the expanse Heavens. Here the writer defines the
meaning of the word “heavens,” which he had used in the first verse. And he further represents the luminaries
as set in the expanse of the heavens, (Genesis 1:14-17,) and the winged fowls as flying upon its face, (Genesis
1:20,) and hence called the fowl of the heavens. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 1:30. By a most natural
process the word would become associated with things above, and be used to denote the dwellingplace of
God. Hence, too, the notion of many heavens. Compare 2 Corinthians 12:3.

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Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible".
https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/genesis-1.html. 1874-1909.

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Heaven = Hebrew high, lofty.

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Bibliography
Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes".
https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/genesis-1.html. 1909-1922.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

 (8) God called the firmament (the expanse) Heaven.—This is a Saxon word, and means something heaved
up. The Hebrew probably means the heights, or upper regions, into which the walls of cities nevertheless
ascend (Deuteronomy 1:28). In Genesis 1:1, “the heaven” may include the abysmal regions of space; here it
means the atmosphere round our earth, which, at a distance of about forty-five miles from the surface, melts
away into the imponderable ether. The work of the second day is not described as being good, though the LXX.
add this usual formula. Probably, however, the work of the second and third days is regarded as one. In both
there was a separation of waters; but it was only when the open expanse reached the earth’s surface, and
reduced its temperature, that water could exist in any other form than that of vapour. But no sooner did it exist in
a fluid form than the pressure of the atmosphere would make it seek the lowest level. The cooling, moreover, of
the earth’s surface would produce cracks and fissures, into which the waters would descend, and when these
processes were well advanced, then at the end of the third day “God saw that it was good.”

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Bibliography
Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers".
https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/genesis-1.html. 1905.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

God
5,10; 5:2
evening
5,13,19,23,31

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Bibliography
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on Genesis 1:8". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/genesis-
1.html.

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