PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis
Thomas Whitelaw [1840-1917] · 541,608 words · 594 reading sections
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2. Shall not be humble<l, i. e. Ly tlwellinr, on other~;" robbers, or tyrants (Arinila, in mon (Geseniu~, Tuch). 3. More probnbly, Roseurniillcr, Oescnius,Luther, Cal v:in, Kurtz, el111II not rule (De Wott.e, Delitzsch, Kalisch, Keil, Murphy, 'Speaker's Commentary'). Fiirst), or eht1Il not judge (oi, irpivu), e.s the T…
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!t,&t of the affections and omotions of tho God did not hnto mnn, nnd a clenr proof thRt,, mind. Cf. Judges xvi. 15 (love); Prov. xxxi. though tho Divine purpose is immut&\Jlc, 11 (confidence) ; Prov. v. 12 (contempt) ; the Divine nature is not impassible. Ps. civ. l li (joy). Here "the feeling, or deep Ver. 7.-And t…
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God nre not likely to end by keeping those of man. From the beginning a charac- teristic of thC' wicked line (witness Cain and Lamech), lawlessness at length passed over to the holy seed. What with the Nephilim on the one hand (probably belong- ing to the line of Cain) and the Gibborim on the other (the offspring of th…
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HOMILIES BY VAIUOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-8.-The wod.: of sin, The moral chaos out of which the new order is about to be evolved. ·we find these features in the corrupt state depicted. I. ILL-ASSORTED MARRIAGES. The sons of God--i. e. the seed of the righteous such men as the patriarchs described in eh. v., men who walk…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 9.-These are the generations of from i''W, to be straigl1 t, hen co to be just ; Noah. "Novi caEitis initium" = "hwc est historia Nonchi" (Rosenmtiller; cf. eh. v. 1). Piel to render just or righteous (Eccl. Lat., justificare), to decl1uc nuy one just or i.uno- Noah (vide eh. v. 29) was a just man. …
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niflee tho en Lire plan and course of lifo in ell eternity may be reasoned (pro and con) from its eLhic11! rind religious napccts ns designed other Scriptures, but cannot be determiMd for mnn by God (cf, Ps. cxix. 0 ; end con- from this pince, which refers solely to tho trnst "tho wny of Cain," Jnclo 11; "the extinctio…
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to obtain cC1vcring for thorn (eh. xuii. 20;roof (Knobel) ; or, what appears moro pro, Dan. ix. 24) ; whenoo copher is used for a ba.ble, a light opening in tho upper dock, ransom (Exod. xxi. 30 ; xxx. 12), nnd cap- stretching along tho entire length, and con- 7101·eth, the covering of the ark (Exod. xxv.tinued down…
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only being excepted, "oilher (1) becauHc of all flesh, two of every sort (literally, by they did not live in the same element twos, i. e. in pairs) ahalt thou bring into wherein mnn Jived nnd einned ; or (2) -or cause to enter, i. e. receive them when bocnuso they wero not eo inetrumentn.l in they come (ver. 20)-the ar…
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report of some sudden accident (the explosion of n mine, the sinking of I\ ship, the collision of a train), in which a number of lives arc lost, it is not wonderful tlll\t the eeho of this stnpendous catnstrophe should hllve vibrnted through the world (see 'Tr_a<litions of the Deluge l . 3. SttJ?ernatural in its ori…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 9-22.-Riglieeousness and .Pea.ce. The description of Noah is very similar to that of Enoch, just and perfect m his generation, that is, blameless in his walk before men, which is saying much of one who lived in a time of universal corruption. And he walked with God, i. e. devout a…
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C'.IAPTER VII. several centuries later (Kalisch). • That this distinction was founded on nature; " every Ver. 1.-And the Lord. JelUJvah, siuce tribe of mankind being able to distinguish Elohim now appears as the covenant God, between the sheep and the hyena, the dove though this change in the Divine name is and the…
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throo pairs with ono ovor, or seven pairs, yekum; literally, standing thin 9, omn~ r11wJ, should bo preserved. The m&le &nd his aubsi&tit, i. e. "whatever is capa.ole by a prin- fttmale. This eooms to be most in favour of ciple of life of maintaining a.n erect posture" the first intcrprctntion, that pairs, nnd not (Bu…
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and therefore not too late, God's interventions in his people's behalf nre nlways opportune : witness the exodus from E~ypt, the deliverance nt the Red Sen the rlestruction of Sennacherib's army; Christ s walking on the sea, sleeping in the boat, rising from the dead. 2. Specud. It was addressed in particular to Noa…
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EXPOSITION. Vers. 11, 12.-In the six hundredth year waters of the ocean (Job xx:xvi.i.i. 16, 30; of Noa.h's life, in the second month. Not (1) xli. 31 ; Ps. cvi. 9) and of subterranean of Noah's 600th year (Knobel); but either reservoirs (Job xxviii. 4, 10 ; Ps. :xxx:iii. 7 ; (2) of the theocratic year, which begn.n w…
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dq>rcssPd ront.ineut, nrcompaniccl with hcllvy Ver, 16.-And they that went in, wenl mid continnons rain, ns t.hc cause of the in mo.le o.nd femalo of all flesh, as- God Delng,, (<'ontrasl. with this the works of the (Elohim) had commanded him. This ovi- third nnd fourth creative days) ; yet "the ,lently closed an El…
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rising waters, ho woulr~ lrnv~ done so by worrh, "And every man," as in the prc,;ent snying thnt " nil the !ugh hills under tho exposition. Thus far the Clllamity ia simply wholo hcnvcn woro covered." While, then, viewed in its objectivo result. In the worcl3 H is ndmittctl thnt tho words me.y depict n which follow, wh…
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nt that time overspread tho earth, but was confined to a limited region contiguous to the vnlley of the Euphrates. That this last conjecture is not of recent origin but was early entertained by theologians, is proved by tho facts that Aben Ezra 111con- futeth ,~he ~pinion of som~ who in h_is days hold the Deluge not…
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science Is now hclcl to teach exactly the opposite. The extinct volcanoes of Langue- doc ancl Auvergne are believed to have been in operation long anterior t-0 the time of man's appearance on the earth, the remains of extinct animals being found among thoir scorim; and yet the lava cones are in many instances as perfec…
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~2 Pet, i. 4) which haYc been given to enable them to escapo the co1T11ption thnt is m t.he world through lust ( Tiic 111 "o"/l-'i' i11 im6uµ.iv 1/JBopai;, i. e. the destruction thnt is already operating in tho world and coming out of, as it is cnrried in, the wodd's lust). Ii. A sIGNA~ DISPLAY o_v THE D~YINE POWER.…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 16.-Tlie bdiever's safet1J. Parable of the ten virgins speaks of a final separa• tion. •"The door was shut.' There our thoughts are turned to those without; here, to those within. The time was come when the choice must be made. " Come thou nnd 1111 thy house into the ark." The broad a…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER VIII. ~,:;i~)l., from ,;~ =.,~~. to surround, to eucloso; literally, ,oere shut up; l1r ..:aXli!b• Ver. 1.-And God. El-Ohim, i. e. God in 9ri~av (LXX. ), Their opening WIIB described 'bis most univerea.l relation to his creatures. in eh. vii. 11. And the rain from hea.ven The supposition of two…
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,11bout tho beginning of April) the ark the Russian traveller Automonolf. In 1856 rested on Mount Aro.rat, the Israelites passed five English travellers, Majors Stewart and over tho Red Sea, o.nd our Lord rose again Fra1.er, Rev, Walter Thursby, l\Iessrs. Theo- from tho dead" (' Speaker's Commentary'). bald and Evans, …
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particular, was supposed to attach to this apo~, Hif. of 71n, to turn, to twist to bo afraid, to tremble, to wait (Furst)'· fut ominous bird. Which went to and fro. O.J?OC. Ka! (Geseuius). Yet other save~ days: Literally, and it went forth going and returning, i o. flying bo.ckwards and for- illl, prop. th? inf. o.…
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1-3, Expos,). And sent forth the dove. water (i(i).,1r1 ro ilJwp, LXX.); 0~; (ver. "Tho more wo oxamino these acts ,f Noah, 14), to be dry', denoting the desiccation of the moro it will strike us that they must . the ground (i(71pav0q;, yij, LXX.). Cf. Isn. have boon of o. rnligious nature. He did not xix. 5, where th…
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stepped forth from the ark; and who can doubt that 11 sense of the richness of Divine grace in saving them will be one of the first feelings to tako possession of tho souls of the ransomed on reaching hea~n? III. SALVATION ENJOYED. Mount . ,framt beheld salva.tion enjoyed by believing si7!-ne1·s. '.!'he deliveran?e !>…
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x. 27 ; 2 Pet. iii. 7). 3. Preservation-the salvation of the faithful. This may bo Rnid to be the aim of nil those minor troubles and afflictions that befall God's people on the earth (Rom. viii. 28; 2 Cor. iv. 17). It is specially so when on a larger scale he interposes to inflict his judgments on the world (Isa. xx…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS .AUTHORS. Ver. !.-God's infinite care. In the experience of Christians the joy of first belienng is often followed by a time of discouragement. Freshness of feeling seems to fade. The " law of sin" makes itself felt. Yet it is just the training by which firmer faith and fuller joy are to be reac…
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EXPOSITION. Vera. 16-17.-And God spake ~nto Noah, modesty from allowing himself to enjoy the saying, Go forth of the ark. For which bounty of nature till he should hear lhe command doubtless tho patriarch waited, ns voice of God directing him to do so" (Cah-in). he had done for instructions to en tor in (eh. Thou, and…
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to remove the incongruity by translating 1:;, to represent Noah, of a Div'J1e command- 118 althourth (Bush, Inglis), but "there are ment which he had received to construct a few (if ony) places wero 1:;, can ho rendered ship after a. specified pattern, in which to alehouuh" ('r. Lowis). Others connect it save himsel…
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alleged to be entirely unknown in the Nile Himavau. When the flood abated the god vn1ley, it is certain that the germs of the arose, struck the demon Hnya,grivah, recovered Deluge story are to be discovered even there. tho sacred books, instructed S11tyavrato. in According to the Egyptian historian lllane- a.11 heav…
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IIOMILETICS. Vera. 15-22.-Th.e saint and the Saviour. I. THE SAVIOUR'S INJUNCTION TO THE SAINT (ver. 15). The command which God addressed to Noah and the other inmates of the ark to go forth and take possession of the renovated earth may be regarded as emblematic of that· Divine instruction which shall yet be given …
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1dngdom nnd g-lory. Here, like Noah's, the saint's powers ofservice are limited nnd confined ; there they shall attain to greater freedom and fuller scope (1 Cor. xiii. 9 --12; Rev. iY. 8). II. THE SAINT'S RESPONSE TO THE SAVIOUR (ver. 18). The command to leave the nrk which G?d addre_sscd to Noah wa~ obeyed-1. lin…
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tinunlly before Goel like tho smoke of incense (Rev. viii. 4). 2. !Vilt be bcued upon the odour of the sacrifice of Christ, of which Noah's w1s the type. It was not the actual service of Noah, considerecl as an opus operatum, that producecl the feeling of complacency in Goel (Micah vi. 7), but the sacrificial work of C…
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CHAPTER IX. not intervened, in the course of time the boast would have become the master nnd Ver. 1.-And God-Ewhim, not bcrause man the slave. To prevent any such ap, belonging to the Elohistic document (Ble.ik, prchensions in ·the future, e.s there was to Tuch. Co1enso); but nither because through- be no second de…
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and (2) by m11n's cap_llbility of ~min,: e!1d were assigned for their food. (3) That shortly ao reducing to subjoct10n evory kmd of wild after the fall animals were slain by Divine beast-lions, tigers, &c. direction for sacrifice_, and probably also for Ver. 3.-Every-obviously admitting of food-at least this latter su…
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nnimals from which the blood h8.ll not been them (LXX., Syriac, Vu~ate, A. V., Calvin, properly drained (Calvin, Keil, Kalisch, Rosenmiiller (qui ad ammas vestras perti• Murphy, Wordsworth). Tho same prohibi- net),· Murphy, 'Speaker's Commeute.ry ')- tion (commonly regarded by the Hebrew although, according to Kalis…
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Ver, 6,-Whoso sheddeth. Literally, he fessor Lewis, who quotes Jona hen Gannach shedding, i. e. wilfully and unwarmntably; in its support. Shall. Not merely a per- nnd not simply accidentally, for which kind mission legnlising, but an imperative com- of mnnslaughter the law afterwards pro- mand enjoining, capital punis…
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thc:-ir <1uccessful Rdministration. As man sank deeper into the mire of corruption, bis supremacy over tho beasts of the field would appear to have been more frequently and fiercely disputed (eh. vi. 11). But now, the Flood having washed away the sinning race, (3) such protection was henceforth to be rendered secure…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 8.-And God spake---in continuation antediluvian times (Knobel) ; but cause it of the preceding discourse-unto Noah, and to stand or permanently establish it, so that to his sons with him, saying. it shall no more be in danger of being over- Ver. 9.-And I, behold, I establish-liter- thrown, as it rece…
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ntm!'spberic conditiom of the earth had been and explained by it. The institution of the different from what they are at present, it rainbow as a sign clearly negatives the idea must h•ve been a frequent spectacle in the !(.Aquinas, Cajet~n) that it WD.ll origin11lly primeval hc•vens. My bow. I. e. the rain- and natura…
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IB the token of the covenant. Murphy and the Christian sabbath. Whieh I han thinks thnt Goel hero elirecteel the patriarch's established. The different verbs used in thia o.ttention to nn nctnnl ro.inbow; it seems passage in connection with n•7,;1 may be more no.tum! to conclude thnt from the here brought together. 1. …
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arrangement. for commnnicltting blessing. In prediluvian times tho form which:the covenant asrnmcd was the promise of the woman's seed. From the Deluge 011wa1•ds it was a promise of forbearnncc-" Neither shall nil flesh be cut off any more b7 the waters o~ n flood; n_either shall there be any more a flood to destroy…
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"And it sliall come to pass, when I briny a cloud over tlte mrth, that the bcn.o shall, be seen in tlte cloud." ' II. Goo's REVELATION SE'r BEFORE OUR FAITH. 1. It is waiting to be recognised. 'When we place ourselves in right relation to the revefations and promises of Jehovah we can always see the bow on the cloud …
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 18.-And the sons of Noah, that ,vent began and planted n vineyard," i. e. cmpil forth of the ark, were Shem, and Kam, and plantai·e (cf. ~senius, 'Gram.,'§ 142, 3; Japheth, who are here again mentioned as the Glass,' Sacrre Philologire,' lib. iii. tr. iii. can. !Jcnds of the nations into which the …
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et: the crises of Lot (eh. xix, 33), Ahasuerus Lewis). Origen mnntions B tradition that (Esther i. 10, 11), Bolsl,1azz11r _(D~n: v,, 1-: Canaan first saw the shamo cf Noah, and 6). Within hie tent, Ev r,I' o,rctp avrov told it to his father. Wordsworth, following (LXX.). Chrysostom, believes Canaan may have been Ver. …
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bcon m11ntione,l all his other sons would enjov " a ra ro and transceudcu t," " Di vino have boon implicRterl (Pererius, Lange). (3) or heavenly," blessing (Calvin), or "n most Becanse the sin of HRm was C'omparatively abundant blossing, reaching its highest point trifling (Bohlen). For the cursing of Canaan in the …
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Buah, I?· 100), 'rho fulfilmout of tho pro- (Dent. xxx. 16), residing, or causing his phecy 1s apparent from the circumstanco name to dwell, in the tabernacle (Dent. xii. that "prreter Europam" (,vp.:nr,, extensive) "maximam Ashe partcm, totum = wide, II); hence supposed to favour the iuca that Elohim is the subject;…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 20-29.-The future unveiled. I. A PAGE FROM HUMAN HISTORY. The prominent figure an old man (of 620 years or upwards)-always an object of interest, as one who has passed through life's vicissitudes, and worthy of peculiar honour, especially if found walking in the paths of righteousness and peace ; an …
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with their faces bnckwo.rd," so tho.t "they saw not their father's nakedness.'' 2. Tender charity. In addition to the mocking eye which gloater! over the patriarch's infirmity, there was present in the heart of Ham an evil and m'1.liciouR spirit, which led him to inflict another and a severer indignity upon his father'…
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bles8ed (Gen. xxii. 18). 2. The exaltatwn of Shein. "Dle~sed be Jehovah, the Elohim of Shem," &c., in which description was the promise of II threefold exalta.tion. (1) To S?tJn·ernacy iii tM Chu.rck, ns being possessed of the knowledge of the true relig·ion, as being en'riched with the fulness of blessing that is i…
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§ 5. THE GENERATIONS OF THE SoNs OF NoAH (Cu. X. 1-XI. 9). I. THE historical credibility of the present superiority of the other's account, which here section has been challenged. 1. On account lies in nothing else than the historic:i.l truth of a fancied resemblance to the ethnographic itself belonging to it" (Intro.…
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EXPOSITION. enabling him to trace the descent of the CHAPTER :X. woman's seed, and to mark the fulfilments ot It is impossible to exaggerate the import- Scripture prophecies concerning the nations ance of this ethnological table. Whether of the earth. In the interpretation of the regarded from a geographical, a p…
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whonco they eoem to ha.ve oprerid themselves Murphy, 'S.Peaker's Commentary'); but both over Europa ns for wost as the Atlantic, are uncertnm (Keil). And Togarme.h. Men- loaving traces of their presence in the Cimbri tioned again in Ezek. xxvii. 14 ; xxxviii. 6; of North Gennnny a.nd the Cymri in Wa.les the Phrygians (…
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line of promise, number thirty, of whom (Josephus, Gescnius, Kalisch); the Ethic,. only four were immediate descendants. Their pians of Arabia, whose chief city Wll8 Sabota territory generally embraced the southern (Kr obel, Rosenm\\ller, Lange, Keil). And portions of the globe. Henoe the name Raamah. 'Piyµa (LXX.) …
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fianco (Augustine, Keil, Murphy, Bush). 2. Dathe, Rosenmiiller, Bohlen); i. e. the early Comm Deo, in God's sight, ns an nggrnvation Assyrians retired from Babylon beforo their of his ein-cf. eh. xiii. 3 (Cajctan). 3. As Cushito invaders, and, proceeding northward, a superlative, declaring his excellence-cf. founded…
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Euphrntes rnllcY, there is no account taken acquired from tho conquered Avim whoae of Jlineveh and its kin~-B circumstanco laud they occupied (Dent. ii. 23)1 and the which has bP~n supposed to import that the exodus from Eip'pt mny ho.ve taken place founding of tl1c cnpital of Assyria could not prior to the inst1tut…
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ation of L11ish e.nd Leshem, 11 Sidonfon city waa the earth divided. At the confusion of near tho sources of the Jordan (Murphy). tongues (Bochart, Roso,nmiiller, Keil, Lange, Ver. 20.-These are the sons of Ham, after Murphy) ; at an earlier separation of the their families, after their tongu~s1 in their earth's popu…
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physical capabilities, national peculie.ritiee, according to the doctrine of thie genell• logical table they nil trace their origin to Noe.h and his sons. 2. It condemns nil those theories which derive man from eever11l pairs. Equally the heathen super- stition which assigned to each particular region its own .Autoc…
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EXPOSITION. original tongue or mankind, he thinks the CHAPTER XI. Hebrew approaches nearest the primitive Ver. 1.-Ancl the whole earth. I. e. the Semite language out of which all three were entire population of the globe, and not simply developed. the inhabitants of the land of Shinar (Inglis ; Ver. 2.-Ancl it came …
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the migrittions Pre yfowcd by the writer as Pliny, lib. xxxv. c. 15 ; Yitruvius, lib, viii. c. tnking rlnce in the east; while T. Lewis 3, are unanimous in declnring thnt the brick prefers to rend from one front part (the walls of l3abylun were cemouted with bitu- originnl meaning of kedent) to another- men. Laynrd …
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