_AND GOD REMEMBERED NOAH, AND EVERY LIVING THING, AND ALL THE CATTLE THAT WAS WITH HIM IN THE ARK: AND GOD MADE A WIND TO PASS OVER THE EARTH, AND THE WATERS ASSWAGED;_ God remembered Noah. The word remember, besides describing an act of memory, is frequently used in Scripture to convey the accesso... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FOUNTAINS ALSO OF THE DEEP AND THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN WERE STOPPED, AND THE RAIN FROM HEAVEN WAS RESTRAINED;_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WATERS RETURNED FROM OFF THE EARTH CONTINUALLY: AND AFTER THE END OF THE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DAYS THE WATERS WERE ABATED._ Returned ... continually - literally, going and returning. The clause should be rendered, 'the waters continually subsided from off the earth; and at the end of the hund... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ARK RESTED IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, UPON THE MOUNTAINS OF ARARAT._ Seventh month - of the year (cf. Genesis 7:11) - not of the flood, which lasted only five months, thirty days in a month. This computation, which seems to have prevailed in Noah's time, sin... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WATERS DECREASED CONTINUALLY UNTIL THE TENTH MONTH: IN THE TENTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, WERE THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS SEEN._ Tops of the mountains seen. Since the latter of these verses has been said to contradict the former, the following translation may serve to reconcile... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF FORTY DAYS, THAT NOAH OPENED THE WINDOW OF THE ARK WHICH HE HAD MADE:_ At the end of forty days. He waited forty days, after the decrease of the waters, corresponding to the forty days during which the waters had increased. It is easy to imagine the ardent longing... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SENT FORTH A RAVEN, WHICH WENT FORTH TO AND FRO, UNTIL THE WATERS WERE DRIED UP FROM OFF THE EARTH._ Sent forth a raven - literally, the raven. The article has here the force of a certain, a particular raven (cf. Genesis 28:17; 1 Samuel 17:34; 1 Kings 20:36; Isaiah 7:14). It is a bold and a... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO HE SENT FORTH A DOVE FROM HIM, TO SEE IF THE WATERS WERE ABATED FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE GROUND;_ Also he sent forth a dove. Disappointed with the raven, Noah made choice of a bird on whose docile nature and characteristic habits he reasonably founded a strong hope of obtaining the longed-for... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE DOVE FOUND NO REST FOR THE SOLE OF HER FOOT, AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HIM INTO THE ARK, FOR THE WATERS WERE ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH: THEN HE PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOOK HER, AND PULLED HER IN UNTO HIM INTO THE ARK._ Pulled her ... into the ark. It is not said that he did so to the rav... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE STAYED YET OTHER SEVEN DAYS; AND AGAIN HE SENT FORTH THE DOVE OUT OF THE ARK;_ Again he sent forth the dove. Her flight, judging by the time she continued abroad, was pursued to a great distance; because she returned "in the evening;" and if a number of trees had appeared above the water, i... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE DOVE CAME IN TO HIM IN THE EVENING; AND, LO, IN HER MOUTH WAS AN OLIVE LEAF PLUCKT OFF: SO NOAH KNEW THAT THE WATERS WERE ABATED FROM OFF THE EARTH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE STAYED YET OTHER SEVEN DAYS; AND SENT FORTH THE DOVE; WHICH RETURNED NOT AGAIN UNTO HIM ANY MORE._ He ... sent forth the dove; which returned not ... any more. In these results we perceive a wisdom and a prudence far superior to the inspiration of instinct-we discern the agency of God guidi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SIX HUNDREDTH AND FIRST YEAR, IN THE FIRST MONTH, THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, THE WATERS WERE DRIED UP FROM OFF THE EARTH: AND NOAH REMOVED THE COVERING OF THE ARK, AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, THE FACE OF THE GROUND WAS DRY._ Noah removed the covering - probably only as muc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, SAYING,_ And God spake ... 16. Go forth. They went forth in the most orderly manner-the human inmates first, then each species "after their kinds;" literally, according to their families, implying that as they had gone into the ark in pairs, so they went out by couples als... [ Continue Reading ]
_GO FORTH OF THE ARK, THOU, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SONS, AND THY SONS' WIVES WITH THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOAH BUILDED AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD; AND TOOK OF EVERY CLEAN BEAST, AND OF EVERY CLEAN FOWL, AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS ON THE ALTAR._ Noah builded an altar - literally, 'a high place:' probably a mound of earth or of unhewn stones (Exodus 20:24-25; Joshua 8:31), on which a sacrifice was offe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR; AND THE LORD SAID IN HIS HEART, I WILL NOT AGAIN CURSE THE GROUND ANY MORE FOR MAN'S SAKE; FOR THE IMAGINATION OF MAN'S HEART IS EVIL FROM HIS YOUTH; NEITHER WILL I AGAIN SMITE ANY MORE EVERY THING LIVING, AS I HAVE DONE._ The Lord smelled a sweet savour. The s... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE._ While the earth remaineth. The year is here divided into six seasons, founded on an experience of the uniform course of nature in Eastern countries. The same arrangement,... [ Continue Reading ]