1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. …
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)I. His creation, Gen. 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…
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