7 And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,
The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we `are' dust.
neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;
The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven;
For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?
Know that Jehovah He `is' God, He made us, and we are His, His people -- and the flock of His pasture.
Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?
I confess Thee, because that `with' wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful `are' Thy works, And my soul is knowing `it' well. My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust. Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?
For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
and this having said, he breathed on `them', and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;
The breath of man `is' a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh -- the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'
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Commentary on Genesis 2 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 2
This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which relates immediately to man, the favourite of this lower world. We have in it,
Gen 2:1-3
We have here,
Gen 2:4-7
In these verses,
Gen 2:8-15
Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth and a rational immortal soul the breath of heaven, we have, in these verses, the provision that was made for the happiness of both; he that made him took care to make him happy, if he could but have kept himself so and known when he was well off. That part of man by which he is allied to the world of sense was made happy; for he was put in the paradise of God: that part by which he is allied to the world of spirits was well provided for; for he was taken into covenant with God. Lord, what is man that he should be thus dignified-man that is a worm! Here we have,
Gen 2:16-17
Observe here,
Thus easy, thus happy, was man in a state of innocency, having all that heart could wish to make him so. How good was God to him! How many favours did he load him with! How easy were the laws he gave him! How kind the covenant he made with him! Yet man, being in honour, understood not his own interest, but soon became as the beasts that perish.
Gen 2:18-20
Here we have,
Gen 2:21-25
Here we have,