2 ( i.e. ) He lived as one whoſe Eye was continually upon God; whoſe care and conſtant courſe and buſineſs it was to pleaſe God, and to imitate him, and to maintain acquaintance and communion with him ; as one devoted to God”, ſervice, and wholly governed by his will. * He walked not with the Men of that wicked age, cr as they walked, bur being a Prophet and Preacher, as may be ga- thered from 7ude, ver. 14, I5. with great Zealand Ccurage he pro- teſted and preached againſt their evil Praftiſes, and boldly owned
3 Mic. 6.8. o Hence it 1s undeniably evident that the tate and uſe of Matrimony doth very well agree with the ſevereſt courſe of Ho- lineſs, and with the office of a Prophet or Preacher.
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred 1Xty and five years. |
24 And * Enoch walked with God: and he vas not p, for God took him 9.
? (7.e. ) He appearednot any longer upon Earth, or amongſt mortal Men. The ſame phraſe js in Gen. 42436. Jer. 31. rs. 94 Our
ly Habitati:n. See Luke 23. 43. And he took either his Soul, of which al-ne this phraſe isuſed, Ezek. 24. 16. Or rather both Scul and Body, as he rook Elras, 2 Kings 2.11. becauſe he fo took him that he aid wor ſee dearh, Heb. rn. 5.
25 And Methuſclah lived an hundred eighty and ſe- ven years, and begat F Lamech.
26 And Methuſclah lived after he begat Lamech ſe- ven hundred eighty andtwo years, and begat ſons and daughrers. |
27 And all the days of Methuſelah, were nine hun- red ſixtv andnine years r, and he died s.
'7 The longeſt time that any Man lived. Bur it is obſervable that neither his, nor any of the Patriarch's Lives reached to a thou- ſand Years, which number hath ſome ſhadow of peife&tion. 5s Bur a little before the Flood came, being taken away from the evil to COMme.
years, and begata ſon,
t Not that wicked Lamech mentioned chap. 4. for he was of the Family of Cain, but this was deſcended from Seth,
29 And hecalled his name + Noah «, ſaying x, This ſame ſhall comfort us concerning our work, and tvil of our hands y, becauſe of the ground which the LORD hath curſed. -
u Which ſignifiesreff. x By the Spirit of Propheſy. y (7. z” Concerning the hard labour and manifold troubles to v hich we are ſentenced, Chap. 3. 19. And this he Cid either r. By the inven=« tion of Inſtruments of Husbandry, whereby Tillage was made mo:e ealy. Or, 2. By removing in ſome part the Curſe inflited upon the Earth, and reconciling God unto Mankind. Poſſibly he might ſuppoſe that this was the Mzſias, or promiſed Seed, and the Saviour of the uadone World : Asit was frequent with the an- cient Fathers, through theirearneſt deſire of the Meſias, to expeC&t him long before he came, and to miſtake other perſons for him. Or, 3- By preſerving a remnant of Mankin4 from that Deluge which he by the Spirit foreſaw would come, and re-peopling the emptied Earth with a new Generation of Men, and by reſtoring and improving the Art of Husbandry, See Genefs 9g. 20.
20 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah, five hun- dred ninety and five years, and begat ſons & daughters.
21 And alffſhe daysof Lamech were ſeven hundred ſeventy angffeven years, and he dicd-
32 AndNoah was five hundred years old : and Noah begat z Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
2 (7.e.) He began to beget ; God in mercy denying him Chil- dren till that time, that he might not beger them to the deſtroyer, that he might haveno more than ſhould be ſaved in the Ark : Or, having before that time begotten others who were now dead, and having the approaching Flood in his view, he began again to be- geta Seminary for the World. Oftheſe three Sons here following, the eldeſt ſeems to be Fapher, Gen, 10.21. The ſecond was Sem, as appears becauſe he was but an Hundred years old two years after the Flood, Gen, 11. 11. The youngeſt Ham, Gen. g. 24. But Sem is firſt named in order of dignity, as being the Progenitor of the Church, and of Jeſus Chriſt : and becauſe he and his Progany is the princi«
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: CG H A P. V I. Unlawful matches of the ſons of God with the daughters of men, 1. 2»
Grieve the ſpirit of God, who threatens their deſiruFion, 3. Giants and
mighty men born ; a general degeneracy" of mankind, 4, 5+ God repents
that he had made man, and reſolves to deitroy that World, 6, 7.
is excepted,” and finds favour with God,8. His Charatter, 9. The Earty
corrupe and filled with violence, 11, 12. God declares t0 Noah his pur-
poſe to deftroy it, 13. Diretis him to make an. ark, 14---16. Mentions 4
deluge, 17. His covenant with Noaj: to preſerve a Seed, 18-=-21, '-Noals
obedience, 22. |
A N D it came topaſs when men @ began to multi-
ply 5 onthe face of the Earth, - and daughters were born unto them c.
a ( i: e. ) Wicked men, the poſterity of Cain,as appears from the following verſe; who are here called men, and the ſous of men,by way of contempr, and of diitinction ; meer men, ſuch as had only the natures, and qualities of corrupt men, withour the image of God. L To wit, more than ordinarily ; or more than the ſons of God,be- cauſe thy praftiſed Polygamy after the example of their Predeceſ- ſor, the ungodly Lamech, Gen. 4. 19+ c So doubtleſs were ſons allo ; bur their daughters are here mentioned, as one principal occaſion of the lin noted in the next verſe, and of the following deluge.
2 Thar the {ons of God 4d faw e the daugiters Fi of men f, that they were fair g, and they took þ them Wives i of all which they chote &.