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 The Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
 
Include 66 books
 
Denomination: dispensationalism
 
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The Chronology having been brought up to Noah's days, the History takes us back (not forward).
**men** = sing, with art. = *the man Adam.* See App-14 .
**earth** = Hebrew. *h'adamah, ground.*
**them:** i.e. to Adam and Eve, as in [Genesis 1:27](../../../kjv/genesis/1/27) and [Genesis 5:2](../../../kjv/genesis/5/2) .

**the sons of God** = angels. See App-23 , and App-26 .
**God** = *ha-Elohim =* the Creator.
**men:** in contrast with angels. Hebrew. *ha-'adham,* singular. *the man Adam.* See App-14 .
**they:** emph.
**wives** = women. [Genesis 2:22](../../../kjv/genesis/2/22) .

**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* See App-9 .
**strive** = remain in, with Septuagint, Arabic, Syriac, and Vulgate; Occurs only here.
**man:** with article, as in verses: [Genesis 6:1](../../../kjv/genesis/6/1) and [Genesis 6:2](../../../kjv/genesis/6/2) = the man Adam, App-14 .
**he:** emphatic, i.e. the man Adam.
**also:** i.e. the man Adam also, as well as the others. (Not "men"; if so, as well as what?)
**is flesh.** If taken as a verb, then it = "in their erring". Hebrew. *shagag.* App-44 . Adam had become like the others.
**yet his days** = yet Adam's days. See App-24 .
**hundred and twenty years:** this fixes the date A. M. 930-120-810. The B.C. date being 3194, as given.

**giants** = *Nephilim.* See App-25 .
**those days** = "the days of Noah. "
**also after that** = after their destruction by the Flood, as well as before it. There was another irruption, the result being like those "of old". See notes on [Genesis 12:6](../../../kjv/genesis/12/6) with [Genesis 13:7](../../../kjv/genesis/13/7) ; also App-23 and App-25 .
**renown.** Hebrew the men of name. The "heroes" of the Greek mythology. The remains of primitive truth, corrupted in transmission.

**GOD** = Jehovah. App-4 .
**wickedness** = lewdness, moral depravity. App-44 .
**great** = multiplied. Very emphatic.

**repented** = the Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**LORD** = Jehovah, in His covenant relation with mankind.

**destroy** = wipe off, blot out.

**the generations.** Hebrew. *toledoth =* family history. man = Hebrew. *'ish.* See App-14 .
**perfect.** Hebrew. *tamin, without blemish* as to breed or pedigree. See App-26 . All flesh corrupted but Noah's family. See verses: [Genesis 6:11](../../../kjv/genesis/6/11) , [Genesis 6:12](../../../kjv/genesis/6/12) .
**his generations:** his contemporaries. Hebrew. *dor* (not *toledoth,* as at beginning of the verse). See note on [Genesis 7:1](../../../kjv/genesis/7/1) .
**walked.** Same as [Genesis 5:22](../../../kjv/genesis/5/22) , [Genesis 5:24](../../../kjv/genesis/5/24) . Hebrew = walked habitually.

**three sons.** See [Genesis 9:18](../../../kjv/genesis/9/18) ; [Genesis 10:1](../../../kjv/genesis/10/1) ; and [1 Chronicles 1:4](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/1/4) . See note on [Genesis 5:32](../../../kjv/genesis/5/32) .

**corrupt:** destroyed by being debased.
**violence:** the Figure of speech *Metonymy.* App-6 .

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

**God** = the Creator in connection with the two beasts for preservation (verses: [Genesis 6:13](../../../kjv/genesis/6/13) , [Genesis 6:22](../../../kjv/genesis/6/22) , [Genesis 6:9](../../../kjv/genesis/6/9) ). Jehovah in [Genesis 7:1](../../../kjv/genesis/7/1) , in connection with the *seven clean* for sacrifice. See note on [Genesis 6:19](../../../kjv/genesis/6/19) .

**ark.** Hebrew. *tebah =* a floating [building] (not *'aron,* a chest). So in [Exodus 2:2](../../../kjv/exodus/2/2) , [Exodus 2:3](../../../kjv/exodus/2/3) .
**of.** Genitive of material. App-17 .
**rooms** = nests.
**pitch it** = coat it. Hebrew. *kaphar,* to cover: the only word for "atonement" in O.T. So that it is only atonement that can keep the waters of judgment from us.
**with pitch** = Hebrew. *kopher =* resin (not "pitch" or bitumen, which is *zepheth,* [Exodus 2:3](../../../kjv/exodus/2/3) [Isaiah 34:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/9) , [Isaiah 34:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/9) ).

**cubit.** The latest approximation gives [Genesis 17:5](../../../kjv/genesis/17/5) inches. But this is the "profane" cubit. The sacred cubit was probably about 25 inches.

**window.** Hebrew = a place for light ([Genesis 7:11](../../../kjv/genesis/7/11) ; [Genesis 8:6](../../../kjv/genesis/8/6) ).

**I, even I.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis.* App-6 .
**a flood.** Hebrew. *mabbul.* Limited to this account of the Deluge, and [Psalms 29:10](../../../kjv/psalms/29/10) , which therefore refers to it. The Babylonian tablets of the Epic of Gilgames are the traditional accounts of primitive truths, corrupted in transmission. The inspired account here corrects the imaginary accretions which had gathered round it.
**all flesh.** Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of part), put here for every kind of being.
**breath.** Hebrew. *ruach =* spirit. See App-9 .
**life.** Hebrew. *chaiyim,* plural for all kinds and manifestations.
**die** = cease to breathe, expire.

**covenant.** First occurrence of the word. and. Note the *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ) emph, the assurance given to each.

**two.** For preservation of species. In contrast with the "seven" ([Genesis 7:2](../../../kjv/genesis/7/2) ) clean animals, which were for sacrifice. Hence here it is *Elohim* (verses: [Genesis 6:13](../../../kjv/genesis/6/13) , [Genesis 6:22](../../../kjv/genesis/6/22) , [Genesis 6:9](../../../kjv/genesis/6/9) ) as the Creator; while in [Genesis 7](../../../kjv/genesis/7) : it is Jehovah in His covenantrelation. See App-4 .

**of.** Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac read "and of".
**earth** = ground.

**Thus.** See [Hebrews 11:17](../../../kjv/hebrews/11/17) .

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