Genesis 8:22

_WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE._ While the earth remaineth. The year is here divided into six seasons, founded on an experience of the uniform course of nature in Eastern countries. The same arrangement, though not noticed in sacred Scripture, was afterward adopted by the Jews, as appears by a passage quoted from an old Rabbinical work by Lightfoot ('Horae Hebraicae'): 'Half of the month Tisri (September), all Marchesvan, and half of Kislef, are seed-time; half of Kislef, all Tebet, and half of Shebath are winter; the latter half of Shebath, all Adar, and half of Nisan are cold; the latter half of Nisan, all of Ijar, and half of Sivan are harvest; half of Sivan, all Tammuz, and half of Ab are summer; half of Ab, all of Elul, and half of Tisri are heat.' Other Oriental people also reckon six se...

22._While the earth remaineth _(285) By these words the world is again completely restored. For so great was the confusion and disorder which had overspread the earth, that there was a necessity for some renovation. On which account, Peter speaks of the old world as having perished in the deluge, (2 Peter 3:6.) Moreover, the deluge had been an interruption of the order of nature. For the revolutions of the sun and moon had ceased: there was no distinction of winter and summer. Wherefore, the Lord here declares it to be his pleasure, that all things should recover their vigor, and be restored to their functions. The Jews erroneously divide their year into six parts; whereas Moses, by placing the summer in opposition to the winter, thus divides the whole year in a popular manner into two parts. And it is not to be doubted, that by cold and heat he desi

20-22 Noah was now gone out into a desolate world, where, one might have thought, his first care would have been to build a house for himself, but he begins with an alter for God. He begins well, that begins with God. Though Noah's stock of cattle was small, and that saved at great care and pains, yet he did not grudge to serve God out of it. Serving God with our little is the way to make it more; we must never think that is wasted with which God is honoured. The first thing done in the new world was an act of worship. We are now to express our thankfulness, not by burnt-offerings, but by praise, and pious devotions and conversation. God was well pleased with what was done. But the burning flesh could no more please God, than the blood of bulls and goats, except as typical of the sacrifice of Christ, and expressing Noah's humble faith and devotedness to God. The flood washed away the ra...

Verse Genesis 8:22. _WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH, SEED-TIME AND HARVEST,_ _c._] There is something very expressive in the original, עד כל ימי הארץ _od col yemey haarets_, until all the DAYS of the earth for God does not reckon its duration by centuries, and the words themselves afford a strong presumption that the earth shall not have an endless duration. _Seed-time and harvest_. - It is very probable that the _seasons_, which were distinctly marked immediately after the deluge, are mentioned in this place; but it is difficult to ascertain them. Most European nations divide the year into four distinct parts, called _quarters_ or _seasons_; but there are _six_ divisions in the text, and probably all intended to describe the seasons in one of these postdiluvian years, particularly in that part of the globe, _Armenia_, where Noah was w

- XXVII. The Ark Was Evacuated 19. משׁפחה _mı̂shpāchah_, “kind, clan, family.” שׁפחה _shı̂pchâh_, “maid-servant; related: spread.” 20. מזבח _mı̂zbēach_, “altar; related: slay animals, sacrifice.” 21. עלה _'olâh_, “whole burnt-offering.” That which goes up. “Step; related: go up.” Genesis 8:15 The command to leave the ark is given and obeyed. As Noah did not enter, so neither does he leave the ark, without divine direction. “The fowl, the cattle, and the creeper.” Here, again, these three classes are specified under the general head of every living tiring. They are again to multiply on the earth. “Every living t

EXPOSITION GENESIS 8:15-1 AND GOD SPAKE UNTO NOAH, SAYING, GO FORTH OF THE ARK. For which command doubtless the patriarch waited, as he had done for instructions to enter in (Genesis 7:11), "being restrained by a hallowed modesty from allowing himself to enjoy the bounty of nature till he should hear the voice of God directing him to do so" (Calvin). THOU, AND THY WIFE, AND THY SONS, AND THY SONS' WIVES WITH THEE. The order is different, in Genesis 7:7_, _whence Ambrose noteth, "non commiscetur sexus in introitu, sod commiscetur in ingressu." BRING FORTH WITH THEE—God having preserved alive the creatures that a twelvemonth before ha

WHILE THE EARTH REMAINETH,.... Which as to its substance may remain for ever, Ecclesiastes 1:4 yet as to its form and quality will be changed; that and all in it will be burnt up; there will be an end of all things in it, for so the words are in the original, "as yet all the days of the earth", or "while all the days of the earth" are i; which shows that there is a time fixed for its continuance, and that this time is but short, being measured by days: but however, as long as it does continue, SEEDTIME AND HARVEST, AND COLD AND HEAT, AND SUMMER AND WINTER, AND DAY AND NIGHT, SHALL NOT CEASE; as they had done, or seemed to do during the flood; for the year past there had been no seedtime nor harvest, and it must have been for the most part damp and cold, through the rains, and the abundance of water on earth, that the difference of seasons was not very discernible; a

Genesis 8:1. _And God remembered Noah,_ Noah had been shut up in the ark for many a day, and at the right time God thought of him, practically thought of him, and came to visit him. Dear heart, you have been shut out from the world now for many days, but God has not forgotten you. God remembered Noah, and he remembers you. Genesis 8:1. _And every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark:_ Does God remember cattle? Then he will certainly remember men made in his own image He will remember you, though you think yourself the most worthless one on the face of the earth: «God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark.» Genesi

CHAPTER 8 Noah Remembered _ 1. Noah remembered (Genesis 8:1)_ 2. The ark resting (Genesis 8:4) 3. The raven sent forth (Genesis 8:6) 4. The sending forth of the dove (Genesis 8:8) 5. The waters dried up (Genesis 8:13) 6. The command to leave the ark (Genesis 8:15) 7. Noah's obedience (Genesis 8:18) 8. The altar and the covenant

The mention of the rain (Genesis 8:2_ b_) comes from J, and since Genesis 8:3_ b_ with its dating belongs to P, Genesis 8:3_ a_ may be assigned to J. With Genesis 8:6 we resume J's story; after the forty days-' rain, he means, Noah sends forth a raven. This went to and fro till the waters abated, because being an unclean carrion bird it could alight on the floating trees or corpses and eat the latter. Then after seven days (as may be inferred from yet other seven days in Genesis 8:10) he sent forth a dove, but since it found no foothold to rest on, it quickly returned