Genesis 1:20-21 Commentary
(20) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (21) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Gen 1:20-21)
Verses 20-21: Amongst the works of God, animal life has not yet appeared on earth. The fifth day begins this work: and as there is provision made, mouths are found for the meat. The fish and fowl are first formed of the water, dead in themselves, but teeming with life the moment the creative word goes forth. The greatest, as well as the least, owe to God their breath and being; and the whale that unwieldy rolls along the ocean coast, costs him no more than the worm that twinkles in the drop before the microscope. Each endued with powers so exactly suited to his state, and so exquisitely fashioned, that he who looks without wonder and adoration must be blind indeed. I know not whether most to pity the ignorance, or abhor the impiety of the atheist and infidel.
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