God renews his blefing, 1: And confirms our dominion over the creatures, 2: Grants fleſh for food, but with the blood forbids it, 3, 4. The prnalty of murther, 5, 6. Goa repeats his bleſſmg,. 7. His covenant with Noah, and all his creatures, 8 --= -—- 11: Confirms it by the rain-bow as his to- ken, 12 -----=- 17: Noah's three ſons, 18, 19: His employment, 20. He is drunk and uncovered, 21: Ham ſinfully reveals it, 22. His other zwo jons, going backwards, covered him, 23: Noah knows it, 24 Cur- ſes Canaan, 25: Bleſſes Shem firft, 26: And then Japhet, 27; His age and death, 28, 29.
A N D God bleſſed « Noah, and his ſons, and ſaid unto"tnem, * Be fruicful, and multiply, and re-
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'2 5-4 Pieniſh the earth. g 17. ” a (i.e. ) Renewed the old bleſſing and grant made chap. 1. 28.
which might ſeem to be forfeit-d and made void by Man's Sin,and by God's judgm-Ent conſequent upon it.
2 Aud tie fear of-you, and the dread of you ſhall be upon every beaſt of the carth, and upon every fow| of the air, upon all tnat moveth wpor the earth, and upon all the nies of the fea Þ; inco your hand are
they delivered *.
+ Before they Joved and reverenced you as Lords and Friends, now they thall d:cad you as Enemies and Tyrants. * bor youruſe and ſervice. I reſtore you in part to that Dominion over them, which you for your Sins have forfeited,
; 2 Every moving cling þ that iiveth c, ſhall be meat 3F for you 4, even as the * green herb have I given you ? Chap. 1. all things Þ. 29. . b Which is wholeſome and fit for food, and clean : An exce- ption to be gathe: cd both from the nature of the thing, and from th: diſtin&ion of clean and unclean Beaſts mentioned before and afterwards. c This is a1ded to excjude the uſe ofthoſe Creatures, which either died of themſelves, or were killed Ly wild Beaſts, which is here forvidden implicitely, and afterwards expreſly. See Exod. 22: 31: Levit: 22: 8: d,It is not a command that we muſt, but a permiſſion that we may eat of them. A grant offibly given before the Flood, but now expreſſed, either becauſe the former allowance might ſeem to be forfeited, or auſe as Men now grew more infirm and needed better nouriſhment, ſo the Earth was grown more feeble by the Flood, and its traits ielded leſs and worſe nouriſhment. f Underſtand this with the Fnication above-mentioned. The green Herbs were given before, chap: 1: 29. * But fleſh with the Þ life thereof e, which is the blood thereof f, ſhall you not ear g.
e ( i: e: ) Whilſt it lives, or taken from the Creature before it be quite dead : Which was an ancient practice, and an effe&t either of luxury or cruelty. f (7. e. ) Which life or ſoul hath its ſeat in, and its{ypport from the Blood, and the Spirits cons tained init. It is certain Blood is the thing which is here princi- pally minded and forbidden, and ſo the words may be thus tran-
ated and underſtood But Fleſh (7: e: ) the Fleſh of living Crea- tures hereby allowed you with the Life thereof, that is to ſay, with the Blood thereof, wherein its Life conſiſts. Or, But Rlefb whilft it bath in it its Life or Soul, or, which is all one, its Blood. g God thought fit to forbid this, partly that by this reſpe& ſhewn to the Blood of Beaſts, it mighr appear how 1acred a thing the Blood of Man was, and how much Go abhorred the Sin of Murther ; and principally becauſe the Blood was reſerved and conſecrated to God, and was the means of atonement for Van ; ( which, reafon God himſelf gives,, Levic. 17. 11,12...) and did in a ſpecial manner re- preſent the Blood of Chriſt, which was to be ſhed for the redem- Ption of Mankind,
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Fs And ſurely your blood of your + lives 4 will I re- + Heb; © quire 5: at the hand ofevery. beaſt will I require it 4, ** and. at the hand of man ; at the hand of every mans
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brother 1 will 1 require the + life of man. + Heb, * Or, For, as the Particle is oft taken : This being the reaſon _ -
of the foregoing prohibition. -þ Or, of your Souls perſons; the word Soul being oft put for perſon, ( which is for your Lives, ( i: e: ) which by the Spirits it generates is
the great preſerver and inſtrument of your Lives, and of all your
vital Attions, and the great Bond which tics your Souls and © Bo-
dies together, The ſenile of the place is ; If I an thus careful for
the Blood of Beaſts, be aſſured I will be much more ſolicitous for
the Blood of Men, when it ſhall be ſhed by unjuſt and violent
hands. 7 will make inquiſition for the Author of ſuch blood-
ſhed, as Idid after Cain, and conſequently puniſh him : For
this phraſe of requiring implies Puniſhment. * See Gen: 45: 22: Deut:
18:19: compared with /#s 3: 23: Pſal: g: 13: If Magiſtrats He
gleCt this Duty, I my ſelf will avenge it by my own Hand. &k
Not for the Puniſhment of the Bealt, which being under ng
Law, is not capable of Sin, nor Puniſhment ; but for caution to
Men, for whoſe uſe ſeing they were made, it is no abuſe of them
if they be deſtroyed for Man's benefir. Compare Exod: 21: 28: Le-
vi; 20: I5: I This is added, either 1. as an aggravation - of the
Crime, becauſe the Man ſlain was. the Brother of the Murtherer -
all Men being made of one Blood, Affs 17: 26, And having one Fa.
ther, even God, Mal: 2: 10: and Adam too. Upon which account
all Men are frequently called one another's brethren, as is mani-
feſt from Gen: 26: 31: and 29: 4. Levit: 19: 17: and 25: £4: and 26: 37: and from many other places 'of Scripture. Or, 2,