GENESIS IL 4 Greek interpreters,tranflated the fxt tlay,for the feveatb, left the heathens lhould think, (miftaking the phrafe)that God wrought upon the Sabbath, re d :jar, fabbathifed,that is, kept Sabbath: for this Hebrew lhabath,it is called the Sabbath (or .Ref) day. God relied (or eeafed) from making moe creatures, Exod. 2o.11. Heb.4.3..though as touching the prefcrving, ordering, governing of the world , the Father worketh hitherto , and arid worketh, Joh. 5. i 7. GodsSabbath, was alto his rejoycing in hit workés,Pfal.' 04.31. and this the Chaldee paraphralt obferved here ; faying, and Goddelighted the feventh day , ise his woke which he had made and relied. This relting is fpoken of God, after the manner of men and implieth not any wearineffe in him for, the Creator of the ends of the earth, famtetb not , neither is weary, Efa. 40.2 8. worke:] generally put for works; as the Apoftle ex- pounds it, in Heb.4.4. 3 Verf.3.. And God blefd:] in Exod. 20.11. It is faid,Thereföre God bleJd; that is becatle bee him-. felfe relied in the feventh day, therfore he bleffed and fantlióed it unto man; whereupon the Apo - file reafoneth, he that is entred'into hit re ft, he alfa bath' teafedfrom bit owne worl y, at Gad did from bit; He- brews 4.50. and he bleed thefeventb day, by giving it this fingular priviledge, to be a day of red an holineffe, of delight and of feafting unto the world, Exod.2o. t o, t 1. Nehem.9.13. Efa.5 8.' 3. Lend. 23.2,3. Wherefore, this day is not defcri- bed by evening and morning, as were the other fix, which confided of light and darknelfe : but this is all day (or light;) figuring out our perpetual! joyes,ECo. 60. 20. Zach. t4. 6i7. Revel. 21.25. And to the Hebrew Do&ors underhand it of the world to come : for in Brefhith rabbah, they fay; The blefJing of the Lord it maktb rich, (Prov. 10.2 2.) this is the Sabbath day , at it is written-, And God bleffid the feventh day, (Gen. 2.3.) be ea Beth the Sabbath, the Bleffing of the Lord, beeaufs it is received from the Blefntg that it an high : therefore he frith, it maketh rich, beeaufe it it the abundant wealth of the world, &c. And if we expound the fezmmh day of the feventh thoufind ofyeares , which is the world to come the expofitirm is, and bee bbffed, becaufe in the fventh thosfand, all fides fbali be boundin the bundle of life ; fir therefleall be there ; the augmentation of the Holy Ghof , wherein we (hall delight our film s : and fi our Rabbine: of billed memorie, bave faidin their Commentarie; Godbleffèd thefez enth day , the holy God bled the world to come, which begisneth in the five-nth t onfand (of ycares.) Compare the laft note on Gen.1.3v. fantlified:] or, hallowed: that is, feparated it from common use and worke, unto his owne Pernice alone :, that it might be a ligne unto men,that they should en- ter into his Ref(or Sabbatifine) Heb.4.9. and that the Lord their God doth fànecifie them,Ezek.2o. 12. and thus the Sabbath mat made fir man, Mar. 2. 27. andmade] Hebr.to make; that is,to exit and be, and that perfe&ly and glorioufly, as by divine power of creation. Or rather created and made,per- felìly and excellently : for fo the Hebrew phrafe maybeexplained, as in t Chro: 13.9. Vzza put forth his hand to hold the Ark,for which in' Sam. 6.6. isPaid, and heldit :foinExo.17.to. Making al Co is often ufed for perfetling, polifbing,naagnzr tag, Exod. 36.2. Ezek.4 .18;1 9. 1 Sam.' 2.6. Plaint. 118, 24. The Greeke tranflateth, which GOD bad begun to make. Verf. 4 thegenerations :] the Greeke turneth it, tin booke (or florie) of the generation, that is, of the procreation or making of the world, and of the accidents that fell out in time after. So other Scriptures fpeake of the begetting andgendering of the dew and froft,Job 3 8.z 8,2 9. of the bearing and bringing forth of the earth, Pfal. 90. 2. and of that which a day may bring forth, Prov.27. i. the day :] that is, the time : fo, day is ufed for the time wherein any thing is done ; as, the day of alvation, 2 Cor.6.z.tbi4 thy day,Luke 19.42. and fundry the like. Jehovah:] This is Gods proper name, Exod. 15.3. the forcewhereof is opened in Rev. 1.4,8. & 11.17. & 16.5. by He tbat it,that war, and that will be, (or, lam come.) It comnieth ofHaab, be was : and by the firlt letter 7,it fignifieth,he will be, and by the fecond Ho, it fignifieth, heir. This the Hebrew Donors acknowledge, for R. Bechai, (on Exodus, fol. 65.) faith, that theft three times, pal I, prefene, and to come, are comprehended in thin proper now, [Jehovah] as is kzowne unto all. It implieth alto, that God hath his being or cxiftence,of him - felfe, before the world was, ECh. 44.6. that he gi- veth being unto all things : for in him, they both are and coniift, AEt., 7.2 5. that he giveth being to his word,effe&ing whatfoever he fpeaketh,Exod. 6.3. Eft. a5, 2,3.Ezek.5.17. And thus it differed, from Adenai,Lord, which is Gods name, of his fie - f entatian and dominion: wheras,Iebovah is his name, of exiting or being, to which agreeth that name Ebjeb, I am, (or Will be) Exod. 3. 14. and Jehovah, Gen. 15.2. and lab, Exod. 15.2. Howbeit, the Greeke verfion turneth Jehovah, Lard, as well as Adanai : and the New Teltament often followeth the fame : as, The Lard fail to my Lord, Mat. 22. 44. for that which is in Hebrew, Jehovah ¡'aid to my Lord, Ptàl.iio.s.and many the like : w ich is to be obfcrved in the Apoftles writings , for theun- derflanding of fiuldry fpeeches ; a9 Rom. lo. 9. if thou fhal eon* that I fns is the Lord' that is,le{ van (as he is named in Jer.23.6.) fo in r Cor. t 2.3. ny man can fay that Jefes is the Ltrd(that is,Iehovab) but by the holy Ghof. Many tines they ufe God,initead of this name Jehovah, as 2 San1.7.3. Jehovah is with thee: for which in t Chren. 17.z. is written, God is with thee , 2 King. s 1. s o. the honk of Jehovah: for which, in 2 Chron.23.9. is, the honk of God. So, the mouth of Jehovah, Deut.8. 3. is interpre- ted, the mouth of God, Mat. 4.4. and, beliefein Je- hovah, Gen. 15.6. is, beliefe in God, Ron,.4.3. Jam. 2.23. Jehovah path given me, Efa. 8. 18. is, God hath given me, Heb. 2.13. And this is the name not onely of God the Father,but alto of the Son, and of the holy Gholt, as in Joh., 2.40,41. Alts z8. 25, 26. compared with ECa. 6. The Jewes at this day, hold it unlawftdl to be pronounced fo as it is written : but reade Adorai Lord,for it. But in the SanEtuarie they grant it was pronoun- ced, when the Pried bleffed the people , accor- ding 4
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