The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 7:7-16
Realized salvation. "And Noah went in," &c.; "And the Lord shut him in" ( Genesis 7:7 , Genesis 7:10 , Genesis 7:16 ). I. The CONTRAST between the position of the BELIEVER and that of the UNBELIEVER . The difference between a true freedom and a false. " Shut in" by the Lord to obedience, but also to peace and safety. The world's judgment shut out . The restraints and privations of a religious life only temporary. The ark will be opened hereafter. II. THE METHOD... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 7:7
And Noah went in. I .e. began to go in a full week before the waters came ( vide Genesis 7:10 ). " A proof of faith and a warning to the world." And his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him . In all eight persons ( 1 Peter 3:20 ); whence it is obvious that "each had but one wife, and that polygamy, as it began among the Cainites, was most probably confined to them" (Poole). Into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Literally, from the face of the... read more