Genesis 1:1 Commentary - Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Gen 1:1. This verse may be understood as a general introduction to the account of the creation, which Moses is about to give; asserting, in confutation of all who held the eternity or fortuitous formation of the world, that the Almighty God gave a beginning to it, by creating the heaven and the earth. It may also be understood as a part of the following account, expressing, that God, in the first place, created that substance in a chaotic form, out of which the regular and beautiful system of the heaven and earth arose, according to the process described in the subsequent verses.
In the beginning— i.e.. The beginning of time.
God— The Hebrew word is אלהים Elohim, which speaks, (1.) The power of God, Creator. El signifies the strong God. (2.) The plurality of persons in the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This plural name of God in Hebrew, which speaks of him as many though he be one, is to us a savour of life unto life, confirming our faith in the doctrine of the Trinity; whatever it might have been to the Gentile world.
Learn hence the object of our worship, the Creator, the Elohim, three persons, but only one and true God. His right to us is undoubted; all we have, and are, is of his bounty. Most justly, therefore, should we yield up ourselves to him, in love and adoration, by whom, and for whom are all things. Happy that heart which is thus led to answer the end of its creation!
Created the heaven— Some commentators, who could no sooner read the word heaven, than their ideas were carried into the superior realms, and peculiar residence of God, have strangely asserted, that the creation of the angels and the beatific heavens, is expressed here: whereas there is nothing plainer, from Gen 1:8 than that the heaven here meant is that firmament, with its furniture of sun, moon, stars, &c. which is the object of our immediate sight and attention.
Consult other comments:
Genesis 1:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Genesis 1:1 - Calvin's Complete Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Genesis 1:1 - B.H. Carroll's An Interpretation of the English Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Through the Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Genesis 1:1 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
Genesis 1:1 - Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Genesis 1:1 - James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)
Genesis 1:1 - Expositors Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Genesis 1:1 - Everett's Study Notes on the Holy Scriptures
Genesis 1:1 - Expositor's Dictionary of Text by Robertson
Genesis 1:1 - F. B. Hole's Old and New Testaments Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - F.B. Meyer's Through the Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Discovering Christ In Selected Books of the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Gaebelein's Annotated Bible (Commentary)
Genesis 1:1 - Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Gary Hampton Commentary on Selected Books
Genesis 1:1 - Geneva Bible Notes
Genesis 1:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Grant's Commentary on the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - The Great Texts of the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Genesis 1:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Genesis 1:1 - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
Genesis 1:1 - The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Genesis 1:1 - A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical by Lange
Genesis 1:1 - Neighbour's Wells of Living Water
Genesis 1:1 - Mackintosh's Notes on the Pentateuch
Genesis 1:1 - An Exposition on the Whole Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Church Pulpit Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - Grant's Numerical Bible Notes and Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - The People's Bible by Joseph Parker
Genesis 1:1 - Peake's Commentary on the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Genesis 1:1 - English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Genesis 1:1 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Genesis 1:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary
Genesis 1:1 - The Bible of the Expositor and the Evangelist by Riley
Genesis 1:1 - The Sermon Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible
Genesis 1:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Genesis 1:1 - John Trapp's Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Genesis 1:1 - The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Genesis 1:1 - You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
Genesis 1:1 - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke (1747 - 1814) was the first Methodist Bishop and is known as the Father of Methodist Missions.
A Commentary on the Holy Bible, six complete volumes (1801-1803), is an indepth look at the Old and New Testaments.