Mar_1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mar 1:1 adapted בראשׁית בשורת ישוע המשיח בן־האלהים׃
Gen 1:1 בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ׃
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;
Here is the same mystery of the commandment of God for creation to obey and be as commanded, wherein there is a limitation inherent in the creation's obedience, which is a reflection, not of the word given as commandment but of creation itself according to its nature of limitedness.
Now then, as there was the necessity of the Word of God to enter into the roll of creation and assist the obedience by modifying the form of the declarative commandment into the imperative, Let there be light, for the heavens and earth ought to have shinned with light from the declarative commandment alone, so also in the re-creation the beginning has the need of further assistance from the Word of God before it will be fully obeyed.
For the assistance of God in creation entailed the condescension of God to an act of six days of work, so also the rectification of the world requires not only this condescension of God but more. This is the mystery of Bereshith, both in the creation and in the re-creation of the world, the good news of Yehoshua HaMashiach.
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