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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Genesis Chapter 7 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Genesis Chapter 7 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2, 3. Of every clean beast . . . fowls--Pairs of every species of animals, except the tenants of the deep, were to be taken for the preservation of their respective kinds. This was the general rule of admission, only with regard to those animals which are styled "clean," three pairs were to be taken, whether of beasts or birds; and the reason was that their rapid multiplication was a matter of the highest importance, when the earth should be renovated, for their utility either as articles of food or as employed in the service of man. But what was the use of the seventh? It was manifestly reserved for sacrifice; and so that both during Noah's residence in the ark, and after his return to dry land, provision was made for celebrating the rites of worship according to the religion of fallen man. He did not, like many, leave religion behind. He provided for it during his protracted voyage.
Genesis Chapter 7 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. For yet seven days--A week for a world to repent! What a solemn pause! Did they laugh and ridicule his folly still? He whose eyes saw and whose heart felt the full amount of human iniquity and perverseness has told us of their reckless disregard
(Lu 17:27).
Genesis Chapter 7 9 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
9. There went in two and two--Doubtless they were led by a divine impulse. The number would not be so large as at first sight one is apt to imagine. It has been calculated that there are not more than three hundred distinct species of beasts and birds, the immense varieties in regard to form, size, and color being traceable to the influence of climate and other circumstances.
Genesis Chapter 7 16 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
16. and the Lord shut him in--literally, "covered him round about." The "shutting him in" intimated that Noah had become the special object of divine care and protection, and that to those without the season of grace was over
(Mt 25:10).
Genesis Chapter 7 17 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
17. the waters increased, and bare up the ark--It seems to have been raised so gradually as to be scarcely perceptible to its occupants.
Genesis Chapter 7 20 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
20. Fifteen cubits upward . . . and the mountains were covered--twenty-two and a half feet above the summits of the highest hills. The language is not consistent with the theory of a partial deluge.
Genesis Chapter 7 21 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
21. all flesh died . . . fowl . . . cattle, and . . . creeping thing--It has been a uniform principle in the divine procedure, when judgments were abroad on the earth, to include every thing connected with the sinful objects of His wrath
(Ge 19:25; Ex 9:6).
Besides, now that the human race was reduced to one single family, it was necessary that the beasts should be proportionally diminished, otherwise by their numbers they would have acquired the ascendancy and overmastered the few that were to repeople the world. Thus goodness was mingled with severity; the Lord exercises judgment in wisdom and in wrath remembers mercy.
Ge 7:1-24.
ENTRANCE INTO THE ARK.
1. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark--The ark was finished; and Noah now, in the spirit of implicit faith, which had influenced his whole conduct, waited for directions from God.