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Genesis -5
The Descendants of Adam
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
The first words of the chapter are the title or argument of the whole chapter: it is the book of the generations of Adam; it is the list or catalogue of the posterity of Adam, not of all, but only of the holy seed who were the substance thereof (Isa 6:13), and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came (Ro 9:5), the names, ages, and deaths, of those that were the successors of the first Adam in the custody of the promise, and the ancestors of the second Adam. The genealogy begins with Adam himself. Here is,
His creation, Ge 5:1, 2, where we have a brief rehearsal of what was before at large related concerning the creation of man. This is what we have need frequently to hear of and carefully to acquaint ourselves with. Observe here,
1. That God created man. Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the center of them.
2. That there was a day in which God created man. He was not from eternity, but of yesterday; he was not the first-born, but the junior of the creation.
3. That God made him in his own likeness, righteous and holy, and therefore, undoubtedly, happy. Man's nature resembled the divine nature more than that of any of the creatures of this lower world.
4. That God created them male and female (Ge 5:2), for their mutual comfort as well as for the preservation and increase of their kind. Adam and Eve were both made immediately by the