_THE GENEALOGY, AGE, AND DEATH OF THE PATRIARCHS DESCENDED FROM ADAM BY SETH TO NOAH. ENOCH PLEASES GOD, AND, AFTER HAVING BEGOTTEN METHUSELAH, IS TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN._ GENERAL REFLECTIONS. _on Chap. IV. and V._ CHAP. V. The greatest part of the events happening between the fall of our first parent... [ Continue Reading ]
GENESIS 5:1. _THE BOOK OF THE GENERATION_— See note on Genesis 2:4, _Sepher_ ספר rendered _book,_ signifies any particular relation, recital, or account; a register, catalogue, or epistle. Here, therefore, the _book of the generations_ means, "an account, or recital, of the posterity of Adam." So Ma... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLED THEIR NAME ADAM— i.e.. Man. "He called both male and female _man," s_ays Mr. Locke, "the common name of both sexes: so _homo_ is used in the Latin.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIVED AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, AND BEGAT A SON, &C.— As the whole beginning of this chapter is a recapitulation only to introduce an account of the descendants of Adam by Seth, we can conclude nothing respecting any other children of Adam, though there seems no reason to doubt that he had severa... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE DAYS—WERE NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS— Nothing is more remarkable than the longevity of those who lived before the flood: a matter which has exercised the thoughts and employed the pens of many: some wholly denying the fact, and insisting that not solar, but lunar years are meant; an a... [ Continue Reading ]
ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD— This is fully explained by what is said of Noah in the 9th verse of the next chapter. See also ch. Genesis 17:1. To walk with or before God, signifies "to live, as if always in his presence." _AND HE_ WAS _NOT_— He ceased to appear among men: _for God took him_ to heaven, as h... [ Continue Reading ]
CALLED HIS NAME NOAH, SAYING, THIS SAME SHALL COMFORT, &C.— Noah (נה) the proper name is derived from the verb we render _comfort,_ and consequently implies _consolation:_ and the following words, _concerning our work and toil of our hands,_ &c. seem to affix this consolation to corporal labour, res... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH— Japheth was the elder born, Ham the second, and Shem the youngest, as appears from chap. 10: and from 1 Chronicles 1 : &c. But it is easy to see the reason why Shem is placed first, to whom probably the right of primogeniture was transferred, and from whom came the Messiah. B... [ Continue Reading ]