Genesis 6:5-12

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 6:12

all flesh. Noah's family the only exception. The Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6 . read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:5

"And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."What is visible here is the total corruption of humanity. The very citadel of human life, the heart, which in Hebrew thought meant the mind, was devoted exclusively to the contemplation of evil, and there were no exceptions. Furthermore, there were no men anywhere (with the exception noted in Genesis 6:8) who varied from this pattern; and there... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:6

And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.What is meant here is that, "God in consistency with his immutability, assumes a changed position in respect to changed man."[12] The expression that God repented (Jonah 3:10), or as here, "It repented Jehovah," cannot refer to any change in God; for as Malachi put it, "I, Jehovah, change not" (Malachi 3:6).The hardening and corruption of all mankind having become total and final, God announced the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:7

"And Jehovah, said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them."The hardening and corruption of all mankind having become total and final, God announced the summary punishment and destruction of it; but before announcing the nature of the destruction, he indicated Noah as an exception, through whom a new beginning for mankind would come. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:8

"But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah."It is not to be concluded that Noah was sinless, a quality that never pertained to anyone other than the Son of God himself. Nevertheless, as explained in the following verses, Noah was clearly apart from the universal corruption that otherwise engulfed the whole of humanity. There was sufficient holiness in him to make possible God's use of him as the second great progenitor of mankind. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 6:9-12

"These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations; Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."Here once more is the great divisional marker in Genesis, the Hebrew word, [~toledowth]; and, as in all other instances of the use of it, there is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:5

Genesis 6:5. The wickedness of man—great, &c.— God saw their wickedness to be great, after the period of the hundred and twenty years which he had granted them to return and repent; he saw that they amended not, but arrived at the highest pitch of depravity, both in principle and practice. The longevity of the antediluvians is alone sufficient to account for that enormous height of wickedness to which they arose, according to this text and the traditions we have of their excessive lust,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:6

Genesis 6:6. It repented the Lord—it grieved him at his heart— "All things past, present, and future, lie open at once to the view of the Divine Mind," says Dr. Clarke; and therefore that he is immutable in his counsels, and cannot repent, is one of the plainest dictates both of natural and revealed religion, Numbers 23:19. 1 Samuel 15:29. For he is not a man, that he should repent. So that the expressions of God's repenting, grieving, and the like, are only figurative, and adapted to our... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:7

Genesis 6:7. I will destroy both man and beast, &c.— God made the beasts for the service and delight of man; they therefore must perish with him, as with him they became subject to vanity and abuse. And God might certainly destroy them thus with as much justice as by a natural death; it is only a recalling that temporary breath which God himself had given them. And as the recalling it at that time, served to render this example of the Divine severity against sin the more signal and... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 6:8

Genesis 6:8. Noah found grace— Obtained favour, or mercy; and the reasons follow in the next verse, why he obtained such favour, and so much regard from God. He was a just man, a justified person, fully accepted and approved of God: he was an heir of the justice or righteousness which is by faith; Hebrews 11:7. צדיק tsadik, answers to the word δικαιος, in the New Testament; see Romans 3:22, and, I apprehend, refers not merely to the moral virtue of justice or righteousness, but to that justice... read more

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