Genesis 6:3

_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 time when or the parties to whom this communication was made. But it is supposed that the words which follow are a traditional fragment of Enoch's prophecies (Jude 1:14-15). MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN. The Hebrew х_ YAADOWN_ (H1777)], 'my Spirit shall not be made low in man; i:e., the higher and divine nature shall not forever be humiliated in the lower, shall not ever descend from heaven and dwell in flesh forever (Gesenius). Others, as De Wette, Maurer, Knobel, and Delitzsch, render it, 'My spirit (the divine breath which was breathed into him at creation) shall not judge or rule in man forever;'

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 prove more certainly, that the vengeance by which the whole world was drowned, was not less just than severe, he introduces God himself as the speaker. For there is greater weight in the declaration when pronounced by God’s own mouth, that the wickedness of men was too deplorable to leave any apparent hope of remedy, and that therefore there was no reason why he should spare them. Moreover, since this would be a terrible example of divine anger, at the bare hearing of which we are even now afraid, it was necessary to be declared, that God had not been impelled by the heat of his anger into precipitation, nor had been more severe than was right; but was almost compelled, by necessity, utterly to...

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 resolution to punish it. In all ages there has been a peculiar curse of God upon marriages between professors of true religion and its avowed enemies. The evil example of the ungodly party corrupts or greatly hurts the other. Family religion is put an end to, and the children are trained up according to the worldly maxims of that parent who is without the fear of God. If we profess to be the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, we must not marry without his consent. He will never give his blessing, if we prefer beauty, wit, wealth, or worldly honours, to faith and holiness. The Spirit of God strove with men, by sending Enoch, Noah, and perhaps others, to preach to them; by waiting to be gra...

Verse Genesis 6:3. _MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE_] It is only by the influence of the Spirit of God that the carnal mind can be subdued and destroyed; but those who wilfully resist and grieve that Spirit must be ultimately left to the hardness and blindness of their own hearts, if they do not repent and turn to God. God delights in mercy, and therefore a gracious warning is given. Even at this time the earth was ripe for destruction; but God promised them one hundred and twenty years' respite: if they repented in that interim, well; if not, they should be destroyed by a flood. _See note on "_Genesis 6:5_"_...

- 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 form of the following pronoun. It is also unknown to the Septuagint. 4. נפילים _n__e__pı̂lı̂ym_ “assailants, fellers, men of violence, tyrants.” Having traced the line of descent from Adam through Sheth, the seed of God, to Noah, the author proceeds to describe the general spread and growth of moral evil in the race of man, and the determination of the Lord to wipe it away from the

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 the time of Enoch (corresponding to that of Lamech the Cainite), if not in the days of Enos. Havernick joins the passage with Genesis 4:26. WHEN MEN—_ha'adham_, _i.e._ the human race in general, and not the posterity of Cain in particular (Ainsworth, Rosenmüller, Bush)—BEGAN TO MULTIPLY—in virtue of the Divine blessing ...

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 concluded, and resolved on in his own mind: MY SPIRIT SHALL NOT ALWAYS STRIVE WITH MAN; meaning either the soul of man, called the Spirit of God, Job 27:3 because of his creation, and is what he breathes and puts into men, and therefore is styled the Father of spirits; and which is in man, as some in Aben Ezra observe to be the sense the word used, as a sword in the scabbard; and so the meaning is, it shall not always abide there, but be unsheathed and drawn out; man shall not live always, since he is corrupt, and given to carnal lusts: or else, as Jarchi thinks, God himself is meant, and that the sense is, m

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 announced (Genesis 6:7) 5. Noah found grace (Genesis 6:8) The question is who are the sons of God who took the daughters of men. The general view is that the sons of God were the pious descendants of Seth and the daughters of men, the Cainitish offspring. However, there are strong arguments against it. 1. There is no proof in the t

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, probably through abbreviation, and the phrase the men of renown implies that a cycle of stories was current about the Nephilim. It does not join on to the preceding genealogy, since the opening words point to a time much earlier than that of Noah. It serves at present as an introduction to the story of the Flood; matters had come to such a pass that nothing but the almost complete extermination of the race could cure the evil. But it does not really lead up to this, for the writer does not imply that these unions resulted in a progeny of monstrous wickedness. It is a kind of coarser parallel to the story of the forbidden fruit; in both the Divinely-appointed limits are transgressed. Here we r...

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-14. HE: emphatic, i.e. the man Adam. ALSO: i.e. the man Adam also, as well as the others. (Not "men"; if so, as well as what?) IS FLESH. If taken as. verb, then it. "in their erring". Hebrew. _shagag._ App-44. Adam had become like the others. YET HIS DAYS. yet Adam's days. See App-24. HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS: this fixes the date A. M. 930-120-810. The B.C. date being 3194, as given....