Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished The three verses at the commencement of this chapter evidently belong to the first, being a summing up of the preceding history of the creation, and an account of the sabbatical institution on the seventh day. The remark of Dathe is, “Male capita hoc loco sunt divisa. Tres versus priores ad primum caput sunt referendi.” — Ed.
The creatures fill heaven and earth like marshalled hosts under command; not one slips from his place. God finished His work so perfectly that nothing can be added or taken from it, and then He sanctified the Sabbath, appointing us to rest and delight in the Creator as He delights in His creatures.
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Commenting on Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,.... Perfected and completed in the space of six days, gradually, successively, in the manner before related; by the word and power of God they were on the first day created out of nothing, but they were not perfected, beautified, and adorned, and filled, until all the creatures in the were made: and all the host them, of...