From Nave’s Topical Bible
Herbs
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Given for foodGenesis 1:29Genesis 1:30Proverbs 15:17
- See Vegetation
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 1:29
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Commentary on Genesis 1:292 voices
I have given you every herb - for meat - It seems from this, says an eminent philosopher, that man was originally intended to live upon vegetables only; and as no change was made In the structure of mens bodies after the flood, it is not probable that any change was made in the articles of their food. It may also be inferred from this passage that no animal whatever was originally designed to prey on others; for nothing is here said to be given to any beast of the earth besides green herbs - Dr. Priestley.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
The historical meaning, at least, of this sentence indicates clearly that originally God permitted the use of foods from vegetation, that is, vegetables and the fruits of trees. But the opportunity of eating flesh is given to men later when a covenant was made with Noah after the flood.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON GENESIS 1.17, 253Patristic
- Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Commentary on Genesis 1:302 voices
And it came to be so, that is, that man might rule over all that were created on land or in the waters, and that he might receive the faculty and power to eat from the fruits of the earth along with the birds of …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
And to every beast of the earth,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Commentary on Proverbs 15:172 voices
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The stalled ox, like the fatted calf of Luk 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical