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- The Growth of Sin
3. דון _dı̂yn_ “be down, strive, subdue, judge.” בשׁגם
_bāshagām_ “inasmuch, as also.” The rendering “in their
error” requires the pointing בשׁגם _b__e__shāgām_, and the
plural...
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CHAPTER 6:1-8
The Increasing Corruption
_ 1. The sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1)_
2. The warning of Jehovah (Genesis 6:3)
3. Increased wickedness (Genesis 6:4)
4. Judgment anno...
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The Angel Marriages. This section belongs to J, but to what stratum is
not clear. In its nakedly mythological character it is quite unlike
anything else in the history. It is obscure at some points, p...
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SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ See App-9.
STRIVE. remain in, with Septuagint, Arabic, Syriac, and Vulgate;
Occurs only here.
MAN: with article, as in verses: Genesis 6:1 and Genesis 6:2. the man
Adam, App...
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_And the lord said_ It is not evident in this verse, why the Lord
should pass a sentence of condemnation upon man. In the two preceding
verses, it is not man, but "the sons of God," whose depravity ha...
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Genesis 6:1 to Genesis 9:29. The Deluge
1 4. _The sons of God and the daughters of men_ This short strange
passage serves as a kind of Preface to the Narrative of the Deluge.
There is nothing to be fo...
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DISCOURSE: 12
STRIVINGS OF THE SPIRIT
Genesis 6:3. _And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive
with man_.
MAN, at first, was created in the image of his God: but when he fell,
he begat chil...
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AND THE LORD SAID, &C.— On a view of the extreme degeneracy of
mankind, God _said, i.e._. "He resolved and made known" by the mouth
of his prophets, such as Enoch and Noah, by whom the Spirit of Chris...
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PART TWENTY:
THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD
(Genesis 6:1-22)
1. _Universal Degeneracy_ (Genesis 6:1-8).
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
ground, and daughters were bor...
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_AND THE LORD SAID, MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN, FOR
THAT HE ALSO IS FLESH: YET HIS DAYS SHALL BE AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY
YEARS._
And the Lord said. There is nothing said either of the t...
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6:3 with (g-10) Or 'plead in (or amongst) men.' 'strive in.' Many read
'plead with men in their wandering (or erring), he is flesh.'...
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The general meaning is that God now sets a limit (AN HUNDRED AND
TWENTY YEARS) to human life, which up to this time had been
indefinitely long. MY SPIRIT] refers to the spirit of life with which
the f...
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THE SONS OF GOD AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN
1-4. This fragment seems to have been placed here as an instance of
the wickedness which necessitated the Flood. Stories of unions between
deities and the wome...
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Two different meanings of this verse are possible.
• Some people think that God made people’s lives shorter.
People’s lives had been much longer than this. (See for example
Genesis 5:27.) Instead of...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 6
PEOPLE ARE VERY WICKED
V1 At that time, men began to increase on the earth. Many daughters
were born for them. V2 Then the sons of God saw that...
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AND THE LORD SAID. — As the Sethites are now the fallen race, it is
their covenant Jehovah who determines to reduce the extreme duration
of human life to that which, under the most favourable sanitary...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה לֹֽא ־יָדֹ֨ון
רוּחִ֤י בָֽ
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THE FLOOD
Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 8:1; Genesi
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THE WICKEDNESS OF MEN
Genesis 5:25; Genesis 6:1
When a son was born to Lamech, he named him Noah, which means “
_Rest._ ”He thought that the boy would grow up to share and
alleviate the strain of dai...
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With the passing of the centuries, the degeneration of the individual
and the family became that of society. There had been intermixture
between the descendants of Cain and those of Seth, resulting in...
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THE SONS OF GOD MARRIED THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN
From the time of the fall, men could be grouped in two major
categories. The "sons of God" would be those people who had good
morals, were God-fearing and...
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And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always (d) strive with man, for
that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an (e) hundred and
twenty years.
(d) Because man could not by won by God's lenien...
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His days shall be, &c. The meaning is, that man's days, which before
the flood were usually 900 years, should now be reduced to 120 years.
Or rather, that God would allow men this term of 120 years, f...
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And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years.
An awful scripture! Read, in confirmation of it, Ezekiel 1...
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There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention
may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with
facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
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3._My Spirit shall not always strive_. Although Moses had before shown
that the world had proceeded to such a degree of wickedness and
impiety, as ought not any longer to be borne; yet in order to pro...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6, 7, AND 8.
Finally we find power and force here below, the result, of the sons of
God not keeping their first estate, of apostasy; and God executes
judgment...
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AND THE LORD SAID,.... Not to Noah, as in Genesis 6:13 for, as yet, he
is not taken notice of, or any discourse addressed to him; but rather
to or within himself, he said what follows, or thus conclud...
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_And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years._
Ver. 3. _My Spirit shall not always strive,_] that is,...
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_My spirit shall not always strive with man_ The Spirit then strove by
Noah's preaching, 1 Peter 3:19, and by inward checks, but it was in
vain with the most of men; therefore, saith God, he shall _no...
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1 The wickednesse of the world, which prouoked Gods wrath, and caused
the Flood.
8 Noah findeth grace.
13 The order, forme, and end of the Arke.
1 AND it came to passe, when men began to multiply o...
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And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh; yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years. The Spirit of the Lord had been present in the midst of men...
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The Wickedness of Men...
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FOURTH SECTION
_The Universal Corruption in consequence of the mingling of the two
lines. The anomism (or enormity) of sins before the flood. Predominant
unbelief. Titanic pride. After the flood prev...
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MAN'S DEGRADATION TO CORRUPTION AND VIOLENCE
It was not long before mankind multiplied greatly on earth, and the
dreadful effects of sin multiplied with them. this is emphasized in
the corrupt mixture...
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1-7 The most remarkable thing concerning the old world, is the
destroying of it by the deluge, or flood. We are told of the abounding
iniquity of that wicked world: God's just wrath, and his holy
res...
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THE LORD SAID; either,
1. To the men of that age by the mouth of Noah; or,
2. Within himself; _\see PSALMS 14:1\_ he determined. STRIVE WITH MAN,
or, _contend, _ or, _debate in_ or _against men, _ as...
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Genesis 9:1-29
We have, now, arrived at a deeply-important and strongly-marked
division of our book. Enoch has passed off the scene. His walk, as a
stranger on earth, has terminated in his translation...
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Genesis 6:3 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Spirit H7307 strive H1777
(H8799) man H120 forever H5769 indeed...
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‘Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit (ruach) will not strive with (or
abide in, or plead the cause with) man for ever, in that he also is
flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.'
Either tra...
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Gen. 6-7
A long period elapsed between the commencement of the building of the
ark and the actual flood. During that period we notice: (1) the
strength of Noah's faith. God has told him of a deluge of...
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Genesis 6:3
I. What is implied in the assertion, "My Spirit shall not always
strive with man?" It is implied: (1) that the Spirit does sometimes
strive with men; (2) that men resist the Spirit.
II....
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CONTENTS: Flood announced. Compromise of sons of God with daughters of
men.
CHARACTERS: Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth.
CONCLUSION: The true believer can float in peace on the very waters by
which the wic...
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Genesis 6:2. _Sons of God._ Some understand this expression of Seth's
sons, who intermarried with Cain's daughters, but assign no reason for
their being called the _daughters of men._ Others understan...
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_My Spirit shall not always strive with man_
THE STRIVING OF THE SPIRIT
I. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN THE ASSERTION, “My Spirit shall not always
strive with man”? It is implied:--
(1) that the Spirit does...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 6:3 God announces that because of the
immoral nature of people, their DAYS SHALL BE 120 YEARS. This could
mean either that the lives of human beings will no longer exceed 120
y...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 6:2. Sons of God.]—That these were angels is a view which,
it is well-known, has been held from ancient times, both by Jews and
Christians. Of the latter class may be named Ju...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 6:1, GENESIS 6:2
AND IT CAME TO PASS. Literally, _it was_;_ _not in immediate sequence
to the preceding chapter, but at some earlier point in the
antediluvian period; perhaps about...
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Chapter six.
It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they were fair; and they took...
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My. Numbers 11:17 Nehemiah 9:30 Isaiah 5:4 Isaiah 63:10 Jeremiah 11:7
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THE CORRUPTED EARTH
Genesis 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
As we approach the story of the flood, which God sent as a judgment
upon the earth, which was corrupt before God and filled with violence,
it will...
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My spirit shall not always strive with man — The spirit then strove
by Noah's preaching, 1 Peter 3:19, and by inward checks, but 'twas in
vain with the most of men; therefore saith God, he shall not a...
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Does this contradict what Moses said in Psalms 90 about human
longevity?
PROBLEM: This text seems to indicate that human longevity after the
flood will not exceed “one hundred and twenty years.” Yet...