Genesis 5:2
_Adam: the common name of mankind, made to the likeness of God. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Adam: the common name of mankind, made to the likeness of God. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
He died. Ecclesiasticus xiv. 12, says very justly, the covenant of this world is, he shall surely die. God prolonged the lives of the patriarchs to a more advanced age, that the world might be sooner filled. Their constitution was then more excellent, the fruits of the earth more nourishing, &c. But... [ Continue Reading ]
Walked with God. Septuagint, "was pleasing to God," by continual recollection and watchfulness over himself. Thus he became perfect. --- Was seen no more; or, as St. Paul reads, after the Septuagint, he was not found. (Hebrews xi. 5.) --- God took him alive to some place unknown, which is commonly s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Noe means consolation, or repose. After he had beheld the most dreadful catastrophe or disturbance that ever happened in the world, he settled mankind once more in the friendship of God, and merited a blessing both for himself and for the whole earth. He gave, likewise, comfort to all, by useful in... [ Continue Reading ]
_Old. It is wonderful if Noe had no children before this time; but he might have had many, whom the Scripture does not mention, either because they were dead before the deluge, or taking evil courses with the daughters of men, deserved to perish with them. Noe kept the three, who were born after God... [ Continue Reading ]