Genesis 2:5-6 Commentary
THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARY
Verses 5-6. In general, God employs the genial warmth of the sun, and the refreshing rains, and also the labour of man, in producing the fruits of the earth: but He needs them not; and therefore these first productions (which doubtless were in full perfection), were prepared before the sun was created, before the rain descended, or man was formed: but from the time that the vegetables were produced, a mist arose from the earth, and fell in the gentle dews for their refreshment and preservation. ‘It is God’s immediate work to communicate the first principles of things, but their growth is promoted by the instrumentality of man. (Fuller.) Thus regeneration is immediately the work of God; but in progressive sanctification man is willing and active.
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