God created, i.e. produced out of most unfit matter, as if a man should out of a stone make bread, which requires as great a power as that which is properly called creation.
Great whales; those vast sea monsters known by that name, though elsewhere this word be applied to great dragons of the earth.
After his kind; in such manner as is declared in the first note upon Gen_1:20. See Poole on "Gen_1:20".