And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Ver. 1. _Be fruitful and multiply._] Here God reneweth the world by the same word wherewith he had created it; and being reconciled to mankind, he blesseth them in like manner as before the fa... [ Continue Reading ]
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Ver. 2. _And the fear of you, &c._] _Timor, quo a bestiis timeamini, et terr... [ Continue Reading ]
_Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things._ Ver. 3. _Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you._] God of his goodness grants here to mankind, after the flood, the use of flesh and wine, that the new and much weakened world m... [ Continue Reading ]
But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. Ver. 4. _But flesh with the life thereof, the blood._] Blood was forbidden: First, as not so wholesome food: Secondly, lest by being fleshed in blood, they should become bloody-minded: Thirdly, blood, the organ of life... [ Continue Reading ]
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Ver. 5. _Your blood of your lives will I require,_] i.e., I will punish it either by the magistrate, or if he... [ Continue Reading ]
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. Ver. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood.] Some are of the opinion, that before the flood, the punishment of murder and other capital crimes, was only excommunication and exclusion from the Church and their f... [ Continue Reading ]
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Ver. 7. _Be fruitful._] _See Trapp on "_ Gen 1:28 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, Ver. 8. _And God spake._] _See Trapp on _ Gen 9:9 _"_ _See Trapp on _ Gen 9:10 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; Ver. 9. _And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you._] This covenant God had made with them before the flood; but here he renews it for their further confirmation: for he knows our infirmities, and therefore seals a... [ Continue Reading ]
And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. Ver. 10. _And with every living creature, &c._] Note this against Anabaptists, who exclude infants, for that they wa... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Ver. 11. _Neither shall all flesh be cut off._] _See Trapp on "_ Isa 54:9 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Isa 54:10 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations: Ver. 12. _This is the token of the covenant, &c._] See here the antiquity of confirming men's faith, by outward signs, as by the two trees in Pa... [ Continue Reading ]
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Ver. 13. _I do set my bow in the cloud, &c._] There it was before, but not till now as a token of the covenant; as still it is applied for a sign of grace from God to his Church. Revelation 4:3 _; _ Re... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: Ver. 14. _The bow shall be seen in the cloud._] In this heaven-bow, there are many wonders: first, the beautiful shape and various colours; in which respect Plato thinks the poets feign Iris, or... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. Gen 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and e... [ Continue Reading ]
And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. Ver. 17. _This is the token of the Covenant._] This is often repeated, _a_ that it may be the better observed, and we full assured; as Pharaoh's dream was for thi... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan._ Ver. 18. _Ham is the father of Canaan._] Who was cursed together with his father (and why, see Gen 9:25), and became the progenitor of those cursed Canaanites, cast out by the Isr... [ Continue Reading ]
These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. Ver. 19. _And of them was the whole earth overspread._] So that we need not add to them (as some have done), Jonitus, a fourth son of Noah (begotten by him after the flood), to replenish a fourth part of the world, with... [ Continue Reading ]
And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: Ver. 20. _And Noah began to be a husbandman._] _Veteres si quem virum, bonum colonum appellassent, amplissime laudasse existimabant._ Cic. _Nunquam vilior erat annona Romae, referente Plinio, quam cum terram colerent iidem qui Remp. r... [ Continue Reading ]
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Ver. 21. _And was drunk._] For his own shame, but our learning. _Instruunt nos patres tum docentes tum labentes_. _a_ The best have their blemishes, and a black part, as that cloud had, that conducted Israel out of Egy... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. Ver. 22. _And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw._] The Hebrews say, that Canaan first saw it, and then showed it to Ham his father, who looks upon it with delight, _Ut vultures ad male olentia feruntur_,... [ Continue Reading ]
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. Ver. 23. _And Shem and Japhet took a garment._] Ham had no hand in this good work;... [ Continue Reading ]
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. Ver. 24. _And Noah awoke from his wine._] And returned no more to it. Once was enough; "the time past may well suffice, to have walked in excess of wine". 1Pe 4:3 We will buy repentance so dear no more. It is expressly n... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren._ Ver. 25. _And he said, Cursed be Canaan._] Because an imitator, and abettor of his father's sin. Neither good egg, nor good bird, as they say. God himself hath cursed such captives with a curse. Pro 30:17 "The e... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Ver. 26. _Blessed be the Lord God of Shem._] Shem seems to have been the chief actor and persuader of that reverent behaviour; and therefore, as he is first named, Gen 9:23 before his elder brother Japhet; so here he h... [ Continue Reading ]
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. Ver. 27. _God persuade Japhet._] For none else can do it. Men may speak persuasively, but to persuade is proper to God alone. He "speaks to the heart"; Hos 2:14 we to the ear only. He persuadeth and... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years._ Ver. 28, 29. _And Noah lived after the flood, &c._] This man, if ever any that was born of a woman, had a long life, and full of misery. Job 14:1 He saw the tenth generation after him before his death. But, oh, how oft was he occasione... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. Ver. 29. _See Trapp on "_ Gen 9:28 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]