Genesis 5:28-32 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

THOMAS HAWEIS COMMENTARYVerses 28-32: Good and bad men have the same names, but their characters easily distinguish them; Lamech the saint, from Lamech the sinner. He had many sons, but one most remarkable. We have, 1. His name: Noah; rest. They expected in him a comfort from their toils. Children should be a rest for their parents; happy they who can say, by experience of their dutifulness and...

  

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Genesis 5:25, 26, 27 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

THOMAS HAWEIS COMMENTARYVerses 25-27: Methuselah died in the year of the deluge, as if taken away from the evil to come. He exceeded all men in length of days, but died too: every man living is altogether vanity. When we consider that a thousand years and one day are alike compared with eternity, the difference of the age of Methuselah, and the child that breathed only, and died, vanishes into nothing....

  

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Genesis 5:29 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

 THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARYVerse 29.  Noah signifies rest, or refreshing.—Perhaps Lamech had respect to the promise (Ge 3:15), and might hope he had obtained the promised Seed; but it is more likely that he spake by the Spirit of prophecy, which revealed to him that Noah would be an extraordinary person; and not only a great comfort to his parents and relatives amidst their toils and sorrows,...

  

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Genesis 5:21-24 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARYVerses 21-24. “Walking with God” is a figurative description of the intimate communion which subsists between a merciful God and true believers. “Can two walk together except they be agreed?” (Am 3:3.) Without coincidence in sentiment, judgment, and disposition, there can be no cordial union or harmony. But man is naturally partial to those things which God abhors and forbids,...

  

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Genesis 5:6-20 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARYVerses 4-20. The Greek translation of the Bible, called the Septuagint, varies from our version, which was made from the Hebrew, both in this genealogy and in that which follows (Ge 11:10-26). In particular, by the addition of a hundred years to the age of six of these patriarchs, before their sons here mentioned were born, and deducting them from the subsequent part of their...

  

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Genesis 5:3, 4, 5 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARYVerse 3. The distinction between Adam created in the likeness of God, and Set begotten in the likeness of Adam after the fall, is very remarkable.—It is generally allowed that Adam and Eve were  personally pardoned, and recovered to holiness: but Adam was no longer the representative of his posterity, as he was when he transgressed the covenant; thus he communicated to...

  

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Genesis 5:1-2 Commentary

  March 12, 2021    

THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARYVerses 1-2. This chapter is a brief history of the posterity of Adam, in that line from which all the human race since the flood is descended, and of them alone; for the immense numbers which sprang from the other braches of the families, in each generation, are barely mentioned. The former chapters seem also referred to, as the authentic records of the original of the world,...

  

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