For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Ver. 11. For in six days.] God took six days to make the world in, to the end that we might be in a muse when we think of it; and think on his works in that order that he made them.
And rested the seventh day.] Not as tired out - for he made all without either tool or toil; his Fiat only did the deed - but to give us example, as John 13:15 .
Wherefore the Lord blessed, &c.] How God esteemeth the strict observation of the Sabbath day, may appear by the exact delivery of it. For he hath fenced it about, like mount Sinai, with marks and bounds, that profaneness might not approach it: (l.) By his watchword, "Remember"; (2.) By his bounty, "Six days," &c.; (3.) By his sovereignty, "It is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God"; (4.) By the latitude, "Thou, nor thy son," &c.; (5.) By his own example, "And he rested the seventh day"; (6.) By his benediction, as here, "He blessed it," and ordained it to be a means of much blessing to those that observe it. Add hereunto, that God hath placed this command in the midst of the Decalogue, betwixt the two tables; as much conducing to the keeping of both. It stands like the sensus communis, between the inward and outward senses, being serviceable to both. a
And hallowed it.] Diem septimam opifex, ut mundi natalem, sibi sacravit. See Trapp (for summary of Law) on " Exo 20:17 "
a Bodin., Theat. Naturae.