GENESIS CHAPTER 8 The waters abate, GENESIS 8:1. The ark rests on Mount Ararat, GENESIS 8:4. The day on which the tops of the mountians were seen, noted, GENESIS 8:5. Noah opens the window of the ark, GENESIS 8:6; sends forth a raven, GENESIS 8:7; after that a dove, GENESIS 8:8, which returned, GENE... [ Continue Reading ]
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IN THE SEVENTH MONTH, from the beginning, not of the flood, but of the year, as appears by comparing GENESIS 7:11, and GENESIS 8:13, THE ARK RESTED upon one of the mountains of Ararat; by a frequent enallage of the number, as JUDGES 12:7 MATTHEW 21:5. And by Ararat is here commonly and rightly under... [ Continue Reading ]
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HE SENT FORTH A RAVEN; a fit messenger for that purpose, because it smells dead carcasses at a great distance, and flies far, and then returneth to its former habitation with something in its bill. TO AND FRO; Heb. _going and returning; _ i.e. went forth hither and thither; now forward, then backwar... [ Continue Reading ]
The _dove_ flies lower and longer than the raven, and is more sociable and familiar with man, and more constant to its accustomed dwelling, and more loving and faithful to its mate, and therefore more likely to return with some discovery.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DOVE FOUND NO REST FOR THE SOLE OF HER FOOT; because the tops of the hills which then appeared were either muddy and dirty, or unobserved by the dove, as not soaring so high; whence the doves are emphatically called _the doves of the valleys,_ EZEKIEL 7:16. HE TOOK HER, AND PULLED HER IN; her fo... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE DOVE CAME IN TO HIM IN THE EVENING, as the manner of doves is, partly for better accommodation, both for food and lodging, than yet she could meet with abroad; and partly from her love to her mate. IN HER MOUTH WAS AN OLIVE LEAF. QUEST. Whence was this leaf, when trees had been so generally over... [ Continue Reading ]
Finding convenient food and resting place upon the earth, and preferring her freedom before her mate: possibly she might lose the sight of the ark, and forget or mistake the way to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The words _month_ and _day_ are ofttimes, for brevity sake, omitted by the Hebrews, as being easily understood. Thus _the first of the feast,_ MATTHEW 26:17, is _the first day of the feast, _ MARK 14:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not only from water, as it was GENESIS 8:13, but from mud and dirt also. So the flood continued ten days more than a year, by comparing this with GENESIS 7:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
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As Noah expected the command of God for his going into the ark, GENESIS 7:1, so for his coming forth of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
QUEST. How could these creatures which came out of the ark in Asia get thence to America, or to the islands remote from the continent? ANSW. 1. As for America, it is thought by divers learned men, that it is either joined to this continent, or separated from it only by a narrow sea, which divers li... [ Continue Reading ]
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This is the first altar we read of, but not the first which was built; for the sacrifices which were offered before, GENESIS 4:3, presuppose an altar. Therefore it is no sufficient evidence that such things were not done because they are not said to be done in Scripture; which will be a useful consi... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD SMELLED A SWEET SAVOUR, i.e. graciously accepted the person and faith and praise offering of Noah, and was as well pleased therewith as men use to be with a sweet smell; AND THE LORD SAID IN HIS HEART, i.e. determined within himself, and expressed so much to Noah. The Hebrew preposition _el... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, viz. in this estate; for though it seems probable that the substance of the earth will abide for ever, after the dissolution of the world by fire; yet that will be in another manner, and for other purposes, and then there will be no need of SEED-TIME, or HARVEST, & c. DAY... [ Continue Reading ]