Genesis 7:15

_AND THEY WENT IN UNTO NOAH INTO THE ARK, TWO AND TWO OF ALL FLESH, WHEREIN IS THE BREATH OF LIFE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

13-16 The ravenous creatures were made mild and manageable; yet, when this occasion was over, they were of the same kind as before; for the ark did not alter their natures. Hypocrites in the church, who outwardly conform to the laws of that ark, are yet unchanged; and it will appear, one time or other, what kind they are after. God continued his care of Noah. God shut the door, to secure him and keep him safe in the ark; also to keep all others for ever out. In what manner this was done, God has not been pleased to make known. There is much of our gospel duty and privilege to be seen in Noah's safety in the ark. The apostle makes it a type of christian baptism, 1 Peter 3:20; 1 Peter 3:21. Observe then, it is our great duty, in obedience to the gospel call, by a lively faith in Christ, to come into that way of salva...

Verse Genesis 7:15. _AND THEY WENT IN, C._] It was physically impossible for Noah to have collected such a vast number of tame and ferocious animals, nor could they have been retained in their wards by mere natural means. How then were they brought from various distances to the ark and preserved there? Only by the power of God. He who first miraculously brought them to Adam that he might give them their names, now brings them to Noah that he may preserve their lives. And now we may reasonably suppose that their natural enmity was so far removed or suspended that the lion might dwell with the lamb, and the wolf lie down with the kid, though each might still require his peculiar aliment. This can be no difficulty to the power of God, without the immediate interposition of which neither the deluge nor the concomitant circumstances could have taken place....

- XXV. The Flood The date is here given, at which the flood commenced and the entrance into the ark was completed. “In seven days.” On the seventh day from the command. “In the second month.” The primeval year commenced about the autumnal equinox; we may say, on the nearest new moon. The rains began about a month or six weeks after the equinox, and, consequently, not far from the seventeenth of the second month. “All the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of the skies.” It appears that the deluge was produced by a gradual commotion of nature on a grand scale. The gathering clouds were dissolved into incessant showers. But this was not sufficient of itself to effect the overwhelming desolation that followed. The beautiful figure of the windows of the skies being opened is preceded by the equally striking one of the fountains of the great deep being broken up. This was the chief...

EXPOSITION GENESIS 7:11, GENESIS 7:12 IN THE SIX HUNDREDTH YEAR OF NOAH'S LIFE, IN THE SECOND MONTH. Not (1) of Noah's 600th year. (Knobel); but either (2) of the theocratic year, which began With Nisan or Abib (Exodus 12:2; Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15; Exodus 34:18;...

AND THEY WENT IN UNTO NOAH INTO THE ARK,.... Noah went in first, and the creatures of themselves came to him, or were conducted by the ministry of angels; and they were delivered into his hands, and he placed them in the ark as was most convenient for them: it is very likely he went in and out as occasion required, for the better management and disposition of things; for he seems to be the last of all that went in, see Genesis 7:16: TWO AND TWO OF ALL FLESH, WHEREIN IS THE BREATH OF LIFE; they that went by sevens, yet being seven couples, as has been observed, as those which were only two or four, went by pairs: this is true of them all....

Genesis 7:1. _And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;_ Notice that the Lord did not say to Noah, «Go into the ark,» but «Come,» plainly implying that God was himself in the ark, waiting to receive Noah and his family into the big ship that was to be their place of refuge while all the other people on the face of the earth were drowned. The distinctive word of the gospel is a drawing word: «Come.» Jesus says, «Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest;» and he will say to his people at the last, «Come, ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.» «Depart» is the word of justice and judgment, but «Come» is the word of mercy and grace. «The Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;»...

CHAPTER 7 Noah in the Ark and the Judgment by Water _ 1. Commanded to enter the ark (Genesis 7:1)_ 2. Noah's obedience (Genesis 7:5) 3. The judgment by water (Genesis 7:10) Noah is a type of the Lord Jesus. In the one, Noah, his house was saved. He carried them above and through the judgment waters. Noah is also a type of the Jewish remnant which will pass through the great tribulation and the judgments to come. The ark of gopher wood, pitched inside and outside with pitch, is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ; Noah preparing the ark, the type of Christ, accomplishing salvation, having finished it. The deluge is a type of the death of Christ. “All Thy billows and Thy waves have gon

THE FLOOD. This section has been very skilfully composed from both J and P. There are numerous repetitions: Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 6:12 f.; Genesis 7:7 and Genesis 7:13; Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 7:12; Genesis 7:17 and Genesis 7:18 f.; G

BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ See note on Genesis 6:17, and App-9....