And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
25. And God made ] Notice the word “made,” Lat. fecit, not “created”; cf. Gen 1:7 ; Gen 1:16.
and God saw that it was good ] It is noticeable that the blessing, which followed these words after the creation of the water animals and the birds ( Gen 1:22), is here omitted. Either the blessing was allowed to drop out, in order that the description of the sixth day might not become too long in comparison with that of the previous five days; or the blessing so fully pronounced upon man in Gen 1:28-30 may be considered to embrace also the living creatures created on the same sixth day.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, &c.] Every thing both in the animal and vegetable world was made so according to its kind, both in genus and species, as to produce its own kind through endless generations. Thus the several races of animals and plants have been kept distinct from the foundation of the world to the present day. This is a proof that all future generations of plants and animals have been seminally included in those which God formed in the beginning.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,…. The wild beasts, and the several sorts of them; beginning the account with the last mentioned, as is frequent in the Hebrew language, and so he made all the rest:
and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; tame creatures, and all the reptiles of the earth: this most clearly shows and proves that the above creatures were not produced by the mere force of nature, or the powers the earth were possessed of, however the matter of it might be disposed and prepared, but by the omnipotent hand of God:
and God saw [that it] was good; that every creature he had made would some way or other be for his glory, and for the benefit of man. Picherellus thinks that all this belongs to the work of the fifth day, not the sixth; because as the vegetables, herbs, and trees were produced on the same day, the third day; so animals, whether in the waters, air, or earth, were made on one and the same day; and that it was proper a separate day should be allotted for the formation of rational creatures, Adam and Eve, and that it might appear that the same blessing was not conferred on brutes as on reasonable beings; and therefore the words with which Ge 1:24 begins should be rendered, “but after God had said, let the earth”, c. that is, after God had ordered this, and it was done, then “the evening and the morning were the fifth day” which is what rhetoricians call an “hysteron proteron”.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 1:25. And God made, &c. As a sufficient proof that the earth did not generate the animals of itself, by any prolific power in it, the formation of them is here appropriated to God. For the sacred writer, by these words, would give us to understand, that the Creator, as the absolute Master of nature, gave both to the earth and to animals all their fecundity and energy: all is the effect of God’s omnipotence.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Ver. 25. And all creeping things of the earth. ] God assigns the parts of the people as of the gnat, saith an ancient. Disponit Deus membra publicis et culicis. And the wisdom of men and angels, saith a modern writer, cannot mend the least thing in a fly. The figure, colour, quality, quantity of every worm, and every flower, with what exactness is it ordered! as if God nod nothing else to do, but to bring forth such a creature into the world, as the product of his infinite wisdom. The devil, with all his skill, could not create a louse. Exo 8:18 Myrmecides spent more time to make an artificial bee, than some do to build a house. Pliny a makes mention of one who had spent sixty-eight years in searching out the nature of the bee, and yet had not fully found it out. God is the greatest in the smallest matters. Deus est maximus in mininis. Holy Mr Dod, being at Holmeby, and invited by an honourable person to see that once stately house, desired to be excused, and to sit still, looking on a flower which he had in his hand. “In this flower,” saith he, “I can see more of God than in all the beautiful buildings in the world.” b
a Plin. l. xi. c. 9.
b Full. Chur. Hist. p. 210.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 2:19, Gen 2:20, Job 12:8-10, Job 26:13
Reciprocal: Gen 1:4 – that Gen 1:21 – God saw Job 41:12 – comely Psa 50:10 – every Psa 104:24 – the earth Isa 42:5 – he that spread