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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:1-32
The antediluvian saints. I. DESCENDANTS OF ADAM. AS such they were— 1. A sinful race. Adam's son Seth was begotten in his father's image. Though still retaining the Divine image (1 Corinthians 11:7) as to nature, in res…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:1-32
§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM (CH. 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human race is traced, in the holy line o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:3-5
At the head of the Adamic race stands the first man, whose career is summarized in three short verses, which serve as a model for the subsequent biographies. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years. Shanah, a repetit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:6-20
The lives of the succeeding patriarchs are framed upon the model of this Adamic biography, and do not call for separate notice. The names of the next six were Seth (Genesis 5:6; vide Genesis 4:25); Enos (Genesis 5:9; vi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:21
The dedicated and initiated child grew up, like an Old Testament Timothy let us hope, to possess, illustrate, and proclaim the piety which was the distinguishing characteristic of the holy line. At the comparatively ear…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:22-24
Enoch. I. The CHARACTER of his piety. 1. Walking with God. 2. Witnessing for God. II. The EXCELLENCE of his piety. 1. It began in early boyhood. 2. It flourished in evil times. 3. It grew in spite of scanty privileges.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:24
A great example and a great reward. Notice the three distinctions in this patriarchal prophet. I. HIS distinguished PIETY—walking with God; faith giving him knowledge, confidence in God, enjoyment of God. II. HIS compar…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:24
Walking with God. Whole chapter a reproof of the restless ambitions of men. Of these long lives the only record is a name, and the fact, "he died." Moral of the whole, "Dust thou art" (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:50). Yet a li…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:25-32
The shortest life was followed by the longest, Methuselah begetting, at the advanced age of 187, Lamech,—strong or young man (Gesenius); overthrower, wild man (Furst); man of, prayer (Murphy),—continuing after his son's…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old. Literally, a son of 500 years, i.e. going in his 500th year (cf. Genesis 7:6; Genesis 16:1). The son of a year (Exodus 12:5) means "strictly within the first year of the life" (Ainsw…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:1-6
God the Savior inviting faith. "Come thou and all thy house into the ark," &c. Covenant mercy. A type of the Christian Church, with its special privilege and defense, surrounded with the saving strength of God. I. DIVIN…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:1-10
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:1
And the Lord, Jehovah, since Elohim now appears as the covenant God, though this change in the Divine name is commonly regarded by modern critics as betraying the hand of a Jehovist supplementer of the fundamental docum…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:1-9
The ark entered. I. THE INVITATION OF JEHOVAH. "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." This invitation was— 1. Timely. It was given on the finishing of the ark, and therefore not too soon; also seven days before the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:2
Of every clean beast. That the distinction between clean and unclean animals was at this time understood is easier to believe than that the writer would perpetrate the glaring anachronism of introducing in prediluvian t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:3
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female. I.e. of clean fowls, "which he leaves to be understood out of the foregoing verse" (Poole). The Samaritan, Syriac, and LXX. (not so Vulgate, Onkelos, Arabic)…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:6
And Noah was six hundred years old. Literally, a sum of six hundred years, i.e. in his 600th year (cf. Genesis 7:11). The number six "is generally a Scriptural symbol of suffering. Christ suffered on the sixth day. In t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:7
And Noah went in. I.e. began to go in a full week before the waters came (vide Genesis 7:10). "A proof of faith and a warning to the world." And his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. In all eight persons…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:7-16
Realized salvation. "And Noah went in," &c. "And the Lord shut him in" (Genesis 7:7, Genesis 7:10, Genesis 7:16). I. The CONTRAST between the position of the BELIEVER and that of the UNBELIEVER. The difference between a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after seven days (literally, at the seventh of the days), that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:11-24
EXPOSITION Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:12 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month. Not Genesis 7:13, Genesis 7:14 In the selfsame day—literally, in the bone, or strength, or essence (Genesis 2:23) of t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:15
And they went in unto Noah into the ark (cf. Genesis 6:20, which affirmed they should come), two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. Cf. the three expressions for an animated creature— חַיָּה (Genesis 1…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:16
The believer's safety. Parable of the ten virgins speaks of a final separation. "The door was shut." 'There our thoughts are turned to those without; here, to those within. The time was come when the choice must be made…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:16
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God (Etohim) had commanded him. This evidently closed an Elohistic passage, according to Colenso, as the ensuing clause as manifestly belongs to the Jehovi…