Genesis 5:22

_AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD AFTER HE BEGAT METHUSELAH THREE HUNDRED YEARS, AND BEGAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS:_ And Enoch walked with God - Hebrew, _ HAA-'ELOHIYM_ (H430), the God, a personal deity; because the Divine Being still condescended to manifest Himself visibly to His people. This phraseology, which is figurative, is intended to describe the close and constant communion of true believers with God. Since "two cannot walk together except they be agreed" (Amos 3:3); because without coincidence in sentiment and judgment, without congeniality of feeling and disposition, there can be no cordial union or harmony; and since it is only after man, through repentance and faith, becomes a new creature, he is brought into a state where he is disposed and able to walk so as to please God ...

22._And Enoch walked with God_. Undoubtedly Enoch is honored with peculiar praise among the men of his own age, when it is said that he walked with God. Yet both Seth and Enoch, and Cainan, and Mahalaleel, and Jared, were then living, whose piety was celebrated in the former part of the chapter. (254) As that age could not be ruder or barbarous, which had so many most excellent teachers; we hence infer, that the probity of this holy man, whom the Holy Spirit exempted from the common order, was rare and almost singular. Meanwhile, a method is here pointed out of guarding against being carried away by the perverse manners of those with whom we are conversant. For public custom is as a violent tempest; both because we easily suffer ourselves to be led hither and thither by the multitude, and because every one thinks what is commonly received must be right and lawful; just as swine contract...

21-24 Enoch was the seventh from Adam. Godliness is walking with God: which shows reconciliation to God, for two cannot walk together except they be agreed, Amos 3:3. It includes all the parts of a godly, righteous, and sober life. To walk with God, is to set God always before us, to act as always under his eye. It is constantly to care, in all things to please God, and in nothing to offend him. It is to be followers of him as dear children. The Holy Spirit, instead of saying, Enoch lived, says, Enoch walked with God. This was his constant care and work; while others lived to themselves and the world, he lived to God. It was the joy of his life. Enoch was removed to a better world. As he did not live like the rest of mankind, so he did not leave the world by death as they did. He was not found, because God had translated him, H...

Verse Genesis 5:22. _AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD - THREE HUNDRED YEARS_] There are several things worthy of our most particular notice in this account: 1. The name of this patriarch; _Enoch_, from חנך _chanack_, which signifies to _instruct_, to _initiate_, to _dedicate_. From his subsequent conduct we are authorized to believe he was early _instructed_ in the things of God, _initiated_ into the worship of his Maker, and _dedicated_ to his service. By these means, under the influence of the Divine Spirit, which will ever attend pious parental instructions, his mind got that sacred bias which led him to act a part so distinguished through the course of a long life. 2. His religious conduct. _He walked with God;_ יתהלך yithhallech, he _set himself to walk_, he was _fixedly purposed and_ determined

- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר _s__e__pher_ “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן _qēynān_, Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. מהללאל mahelal'ēl, Mahalalel, “praise of ‘El.” 15. ירד _yerĕd_, Jered, “going down.” 21. מתוּשׁלה _m__e__tûshālach_, Methushelach, “man of the missile.” 29. נה _noach_, Noach, “rest,” נחם _nācham_ “sigh; repent; pity; comfort onesel

§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM (CH. 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human race is traced, in the holy line of Seth, from the day of Adam's creation, through ten successive generations, till the point is reached when the first great experiment of attempting to save man by clemency rather than by punishment is brought to a termination, and Jehovah, whose mercy has been spurned and abused, determines to destroy the impenitent transgressors. First, in brief and somewhat monotonous outline, the lives of the ten patriarchs are sketched, scarcely more being recorded of them than simply that they were born, grew to manhood, married wives, begat children, and then died. In only two instances does the history diverge from this severely simple style of biographical narration, namely, in t...

AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, AFTER HE BEGAT METHUSELAH, THREE HUNDRED YEARS,.... The Greek version is two hundred. He had walked with God undoubtedly before, but perhaps after this time more closely and constantly: and this is observed to denote, that he continued so to do all the days of his life, notwithstanding the apostasy which began in the days of his father, and increased in his. He walked in the name and fear of God, according to his will, in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord then made known; he walked by faith in the promises of God, and in the view of the Messiah, the promised seed; he walked uprightly and sincerely, as in the sight of God; he had familiar converse, and near and intimate communion with him: and even the above Heathen writer, Eupolemus, seems to suggest something like this, when he says, that he knew all things by the angels of God, which seems to de...

ENOCH Enoch, "translated that he should not see death" (Hebrews 11:5) before the judgment of the Flood, is a type of those saints who are to be translated before the apocalyptic judgments (1 Thessalonians 4:14). Noah, left on the earth, but preserved through the judgment of the Flood, is a type of the Jewish people, who will be kept through the apocalyptic judgments; (Jeremiah 30:5); (Revelation 12:13) and brought as an earthly people to the new heaven and new earth; (Isaiah 65:17); ...

III. THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM CHAPTER 5 Adam and His Seed Through Seth _ 1. Adam (Genesis 5:1)_ 2. Seth (Genesis 5:6) 3. Enos (Genesis 5:9) 4. Cainan (Genesis 5:12) 5. Mahalaleel (Genesis 5:15) 6. Jared (Genesis 5:18) 7. Enoch (Genesis 5:21) 8. Methuselah ...

Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catalogue of names and dates. There is a striking divergence between the Heb., Sam., and LXX figures, the period from the Creation to the Flood being reckoned as 1656, 1307, and 2242 (a variant yields 2262) years respectively. THE question is very complex; here the editor's view must be stated without discussion. The LXX may be set aside; the Sam. is probably to be preferred to the Heb. since the latter shows signs of artificiality and because it can be more readily explained from the Sam. than _vice versa._ The Sam. represents Jared, Methuselah, and Lamech as dying in the year of the Flood, and since this occurs early in the year the suggestion is that they perished in it. The Heb. presumably is an