The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 227

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; but it was as J chovah dcmiquo novum orbem, veluti immcnsm (not Elohim) that God abode uctwccn the ruagmtudinis e.uctarium, Ja_phcto postoriquo cherubim (Exo<l. xl. 34). In the tentg of ejus in perpotuam posscss10nem obtigissc" Shem. Not the tents of celebrity (Gesenius, (Fuller, • Sac. Miscol. ,• lib. ii. c. 4, qnotecl by Yater, l\lichaclis, De Wette, Knobel), but Glass); cf. eh. x. 2-6, in which Japheth is the tents of the Shemitic races, with allusion given as the progcni tor of fourteen peoples, not to their subjugation by the J apheth- to which e.re aclded the inhabitants of the ites (Clericus, Von Bohlen, Bochart), which lands washed by the sea. The expansive would not be in keeping with the former power of J apheth "refers not only to the blessing pronounced upon them (lilurphy), territory and the multitude of the J aphcth- but to their subsequent contiguity to, and ites, but also to their intellectual and active even commingling with, but especially to faculties. The metaphysics of tho Hindoos, their pa1ticipation in the religious privileges the philosophy of the Grcelrn, the military of, the Shcmites (the Fathers, Targurn Jo- prowess of the Romans, and the modern nathan, Hieronymus, Calvin, Keil, Lange, science and civilisation of the world arc due 'Speaker's Commentary,' Murphy, Candlish). to the race of Japheth" (Murphy). And he The fulfilment of the prophecy is too obvious -not Elohim (Philo., Theodoret, Onkelos, to call for illustration. And Ca.naa.n sha.11 Dathe, Baumgarten, et alii), which (1) sub- be his servant. ~tantially repeats tha blessing already given Vera. 28, 29.-A.nd Noah lived after the to Shem, and (2) would introduce an allusion 1lood three hundred and fifty yaa.rs. /. e. to the superiority of Shem's blessing in what to the fifty-eighth year of the life of Abram, .the context requires should be an unrestricted and was thus in all probability a "ituess of benediction of Japheth; but Japheth (Cal- the building of the tower of Babel, and of the vin, Roscnmiillcr, Delitzsch, Keil, Lange, co~sequent dispersion of mankind. And all Kalisch, Murphy, Wordsworth, 'Speaker's the de.ya of Noah were nine hundred e.nd Commentary')-ahall dwell. l~ff!, from fifty years: and he died. Tuch, Bleck, ancl Colenso cC1nnect these verses with ver. 17, 1~~. to dwell; used of God inhabiting the as the proper continuation of the Elohist's heavens (lsa. !vii. 15), dwelling in the bush work.