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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 8

Genesis 8:4

_THE ARK OF SAFETY_ ‘And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.’ Genesis 8:4 The history of the Deluge is alleged in the New Testament as a type of the deep waters of sin, in which a lost world is perishing, and from which there is... [ Continue Reading ]

Genesis 8:20-22

_THE FIRST ALTAR IN THE NEW WORLD_ ‘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,’ etc. Genesis 8:20 Noah, we are told, ‘was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.’ Noah rev... [ Continue Reading ]

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