![]() That is, God himself, who is named the God of Jacob, whom Jacob called upon, and trusted in as his God, and who answered him in the day of his distress: Jacob was exercised with many troubles, but the Lord delivered him out of them all and which may be the reason why the Lord is addressed under this character here besides, Israel is one of the names of the Messiah, ( Isaiah 49:3 ) on whose account the petition is put to which may be added, that Jacob may design people of God, the spiritual sons of Jacob, the church of the living God, whose God the Lord is and the phrase may be here used by the church, to encourage her faith in prayer: the petition, on account of the Messiah, is, that God would "defend" him, or "set" him on "an high place" F14 or "exalt" him: he was brought very low in his state of humiliation he was in the form of a servant he was in a very low and mean condition throughout the whole of his life through the suffering of death he was made lower than the angels, and he was laid in the lower parts of the earth: the church, in this petition, prays for his resurrection from the dead for his ascension into the highest heavens for his exaltation at the right hand of God for the more visible setting him on his throne in his kingdom in all which she has been answered.į14 ( Kbgvy) "elevet te", Pagninus, Montanus "exaltet te", Vatablus, Museulus, Michaelis "in edito collocet te", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator so Ainsworth. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.All the days of Christ were days of trouble he was a brother born for adversity a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs he had his own sorrows, and he bore the griefs of others he was persecuted by Herod in his infancy he was tempted by Satan in the wilderness he was harassed by the Scribes and Pharisees continually he was grieved at the hardness, impenitence, and unbelief, of that perverse and faithless generation of men, and was sometimes made uneasy by his own disciples: at some particular seasons his soul or spirit is said to be troubled, as at the grave of Lazarus, and when in a view of his own death, and when he was about to acquaint his disciples that one of them should betray him, ( John 11:33 ) ( 12:27 ) ( 13:21 ) but more particularly it was a day of trouble with him, when he was in the garden, heavy, and sore amazed, and his sweat was, as it were, drops of blood falling on the ground, and his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death but more especially this was his case when he hung upon the cross, and is what seems to be principally respected here when he was in great torture of body through the rack of the cross when he endured the cruel mockings of men, of the common people, of the chief priests, and even of the thieves that suffered with him when he had Satan, and all his principalities and powers, let loose upon him, and he was grappling with them when he bore all the sins of his people, endured the wrath of his Father, and was forsaken by him: now in this day of trouble, both when in the garden and on the cross, he prayed unto his Father, as he had been used to do in other cases, and at other times and the church here prays, that God would hear and answer him, as he did: he always heard him he heard him at the grave of Lazarus he heard him in the garden, and filled his human soul with courage and intrepidity, of which there were immediate instances he heard him on the cross, and helped him as man and Mediator, ( Isaiah 49:8 ) 31 adAnd God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. 30 And acto every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. ![]() And God said to them, aa“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “ Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus. And ylet them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”Ģ7 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him z male and female he created them.Ģ8 And God blessed them. If youre looking to enhance your Bible study experience, consider using an ESV leather study Bible. ![]() ▼The Hebrew word for man ( adam) is the generic term for mankind and becomes the proper name Adam in our image, xafter our likeness.
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