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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:17-19
And the flood was forty days upon the earth. Referring to the forty days' and nights' rain of Genesis 7:4 ( τεσσαρα ì κοντα ἡ μεì ρας καιÌ τεσσαραì κοντα νυì κτας, LXX.), during which the augmentation of the waters is…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:19
Was the Flood universal? I. THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT. Unquestionably the language of the historian appears to describe a complete submergence of the globe beneath a flood of waters, and is capable of being so understood, so…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward—half the height of the ark—did the waters prevail. Literally, become strong; above the highest mountains obviously, and not above the ground simply; as, on the latter alternative, it could scarcely…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:23
And every living substance was destroyed—literally, wiped out (cf. Genesis 6:7; Genesis 7:4)—which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and—literally, from, man urge—cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:23
The Deluge. I. A STRIKING TESTIMONY TO THE DIVINE FAITHFULNESS. 1. In respect of threatenings against the wicked. Whether the faith of Noah ever betrayed symptoms of wavering during the long interval of waiting for the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Additional to the forty days of rain (Murphy), making 190 since the commencement of the Flood; or more probably inclusive of the forty days (Knobel, Lan…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7
The new life of man on the earth under a new revelation of the Divine favor. The chief points are— I. UNLIMITED POSSESSION OF THE EARTH, and use of its inhabitants and products, whether for food or otherwise; thus suppl…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1
And God—Elohim, not because belonging to the Elohistic document (Block, Tuch, Colcnso); but rather because throughout this section the Deity is exhibited in his relations to his creatures—blessed—a repetition of the pri…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:1-7
New arrangements for a new era. I. PROVISION FOR THE INCREASE OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. 1. The procreate instrumentality—the ordinance of marriage (Genesis 9:1, Genesis 9:7), which was - 2. The originating cause—the Divine b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you. Not simply of Noah and his sons, but of man in general. Shall be. Not for the first time, as it could not fail to be evoked by the sin of man during the previous generations, bu…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:3
Every—obviously admitting of "exceptions to be gathered both from the nature of the case and from the distinction of clean and unclean beasts mentioned before and afterwards" (Poole)—moving thing that liveth—clearly exc…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:4
But— אַךְ, an adverb of limitation or exception, as in Le Genesis 11:4, introducing a restriction on the foregoing precept—flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof. Literally, with its soul, its blood; th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:5
And surely. Again the conjunction אַךְ introduces a restriction. The blood of beasts might without fear be shed for necessary uses, but the blood of man was holy and inviolable. Following the LXX. ( καιÌ γαÌ ρ), Jerome,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth. Literally, he shedding, i.e. willfully and unwarrantably; and not simply accidentally, for which kind of manslaughter the law afterwards provided (vide Numbers 35:11); or judicially, for that is commande…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Vide on Genesis 9:1. HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:8-17
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:8
And God spake—in continuation of the preceding discourse—unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying.
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:8-17
The new Noachic covenant established. I. It is a COVENANT OF LIFE. It embraces all the posterity of Noah, i.e. it is— 1. The new foundation on which humanity rests. 2. It passes through man to all flesh, to all living c…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish—literally, am causing to rise up or stand; ἀ νιì στημι (LXX.)—my covenant (cf. Genesis 6:18) with you, and with your seed after you. I.e. the covenant contemplated all subsequent posterity in…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:10
And with every living creature—literally, every soul (or breathing thing) that liveth, a generic designation of which the particulars are now specified—that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:11
And I will establish my covenant with you. Not form it for the first time, as if no such covenant had existed in antediluvian times (Knobel); but cause it to stand or permanently establish it, so that it shall no more b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:12
And God said, This is the token— אוֹת (vide Genesis 1:14; Genesis 4:15)—of the covenant which I make—literally, am giving (cf. Genesis 17:2)—between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual g…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 9:13
I do set. Literally, I have given, or placed, an indication that the atmospheric phenomenon referred to had already frequently appeared (Syriac, Arabic, Aben Ezra, Chrysostom, Calvin, Willet, Murphy, Wordsworth, Kalisch…