ham's, Nor LI life without fault, Elijah was " of like passions as we are;" and David ; and St. John declares, 1 John i. 8-10. 1. It is a life of faith, i. e. a life in which the word of God is a real power. Mark in Heh. xi. how faith worked in different circumstances. To walk with God is to trust him as a child trusts ; from belief of his fatherhood, 11nd that he is true. With texts before us such as John iii. 16; 1 John i. 9; ii. 2, why are any not rejoicing? Or with such as John iv. 10; Luke xi. 13, why are any not aRking and receiving to the full? God puts no hin- drance (Rev. iii. 20). Ilut ( 1) too often men do not care. To walk with Goel is of less importance than to be admired of men. (2) If they do care, they often v,ill not take God's way. The simple message (2 Cor. v. 20; 1 John v. 11) seems too simple. They look for feelings, instead of setting God's message before them and grasping it. 2. To walk with God implies desire and effort for the good of men. Jn an ungodly world Enoch proclaimed the coming judgment (Jude 14; cf. Acts xxiv. 25). Spiritual selfishness often a snare to those who have escaped the snare of the world. It is not the mind of Christ. It springs from weakness of faitl1. Knowing the gift so dearly purchased, so freely offered to all, our calling is to per- suade men. Not necessarily as teachers (James i. HJ), but by intercession and by loving influence. Ill. ENOCH WAS TRANSLATED. But apostles and saints died. Yet think not th::t their walk with God was less blessed. Hear our Lord's words (John xi. 26), and St. Paul (2 Tim. i. 10). Hear the apostle's desire (Phil. i. 23). Enoch walked with God on earth, and the communion was carried on above. Is not this our Saviour'8 promise? (John xiv. 21-23; xvii. 24). Death is not the putting off that which is corruptible ; it is separation from the Lord. Assured that we are his for ever, we may say, 11 0 death, where is thy sting? "-M. Ver. 24.-A great example and a great reward. Notice the three distinctions in tliis patriarchal prophet. I. Hrs distinguished PIETY-walking with God ; faith giving him knowledge, con- fidence in God, enjoyment of God. II. Hrs comparatively snonT LIFE, and therefore speedy deliverance from the im- perfection and suffering of this world, though his son lived the longest antediluvian life, and . perhaps was a disciple of his father, teaching his doctrine. Those who "initiate" (Enoch) great moral movements are seldom long-lived men. III. Hrs distinguished END-translation. God took him because he loved him. The anticipation of the resurrection was itself a prophecy. The seventh from A.dam is taken to heaven without death, though all the rest died, however long they lived, as though to vivify the promise of the redeeming seed. It seems better to su]ilply the word "died" rather than "was." "And he died not; for God took lii·m" -referring to the common formula of the patriarchal history, "and he died." Walk- ing with God is walking to God. Those who are like Enoch in their life will not be very different from him in their end; for the peace and triumph of n good man's end is little short of translation. The first of the prophets is thus gloriously signalised. Was it not like a special blessing from the beginning of tho world on the life of con- secrated ministration to God? Walking with God may be the description of any kind of service, but especially of the prophets'.-R.
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CHAPTER VI. human race in general, and not the posterity of Cniu in particular (Aiusworth, Rosenmiil- Vora. 1, 2.-Andjtcametopass. Literally, ler, Bush)-began to multiply-iu virtue of it was; not in immediate sequence to tho tho Divine blessing (eh. i. 23)-on (or over) Jll'ececliug chapter, but at some earlier point the face of the earth. " Alluding to tha - Ill the antediluvian period; perhaps about population spreading itself out a.s well as the time of Enoch (corresponding to that of increasing" (Bonar). And daughters were Lnmech the Cainito), if not in the days of born unto them. Not referring to auy Enos, Hii.vernick joins tho 11nssngo with eh. special increase of the female sex (Laug11), lv. 26. When men-ha'adham, i. e. the but eimplv indicatini: the c'.larter whence the 10:2 THE DOOK OF GENESIS. [cu. v1. 1--8,