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Selected Verse: Genesis 6:22 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 6:22 |
King James |
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Thus did Noah--He began without delay to prepare the colossal fabric, and in every step of his progress faithfully followed the divine directions he had received. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thus did Noah - He prepared the ark; and during one hundred and twenty years preached righteousness to that sinful generation, Pe2 2:5. And this we are informed, Pe1 3:18, Pe1 3:19, etc., he did by the Spirit of Christ; for it was only through him that the doctrine of repentance could ever be successfully preached. The people in Noah's time are represented as shut up in prison - arrested and condemned by God's justice, but graciously allowed the space of one hundred and twenty years to repent in. This respite was an act of great mercy; and no doubt thousands who died in the interim availed themselves of it, and believed to the saving of their souls. But the great majority of the people did not, else the flood had never come. |
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;