Verse 16
16. The Lord shut him in Noah in the ark was encompassed by the arms of the covenant-keeping God . While the elemental war raged so fiercely above and beneath, he was shut in with Jehovah . The use of the two divine names is here most suggestive and impressive . It was Elohim, the mighty God, the Creator, who brought the flood of waters upon the earth; but it was Jehovah, the God of the promise and of the covenant, the Unchanging One, ( ο ων και ο ην και ο ερχομενος ,) who now covered him with his wings . Thus will God close the door of the Church when the final storm of judgment shall fall upon the world . They “went in unto the marriage and the door was shut . ” Matthew 25:10. This verse, blending, as it does, the two divine names in one sentence, conclusively demonstrates the unity of the narrative, showing that in its present form it proceeded from a single mind.
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