“ And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. ”
- Section V - The Line to Noah - The Line of Sheth 1. ספר s e pher “writing, a writing, a book.” 9. קינן qēynān , Qenan, “possessor, or spearsman.” 12. < מהללאל mah...
And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for (g) God took him. (g) To show that there was a better life prepared and to be a testimony of the immortality of souls and bodies. To inquire where he...
Sethite Genealogy of Antediluvians. With the exception of Genesis 5:29 this comes from P, as is clear from the style, each statement being cast in the same mould, and the whole forming a mere catal...
took him. See Hebrews 11:5 . Translated without dying: as Elijah was, 2 Kings 2:9 . Enoch was "the seventh from Adam" ( Jude 1:14 ). He prophesied "by faith". Therefore Divinely instructed, Roma...
24. And he was not, for God took him. He must be shamelessly contentious, who will not acknowledge that something extraordinary is here pointed out. All are, indeed, taken out of the world by...
DISCOURSE: 11 ENOCH’S WALKING WITH GOD Genesis 5:24 . And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. THE cares of a family are by no means incompatible with a life of devotedness...
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Enoch walked with God— This is fully explained by what is said of Noah in the 9th verse of the next chapter. See also ch. Genesis 17:1 . To walk with or before God, signifies "to live, as if alway...
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. And he was not; for God took him. 'To be not,' is a soft archaic expression, several times used in this book in speaking of a pers...
The Descendants of Adam to Noah The purpose of the historian in giving the names and ages of the antediluvian Patriarchs was, no doubt, to show the glorious ancestry of the chosen race, and to acc...
Enoch walked with God. — This is translated in the LXX., “Enoch pleased God,” whence comes the “testimony” quoted in Hebrews 11:5 . Really it gives the cause of which the Greek phrase is the effec...
THE FLOOD Genesis 5:1-32 ; Genesis 6:1-22 ; Genesis 7:1-24 ; Genesis 8:1-22 ; Genesis 9:1-29 THE first great event which indelibly impressed itself on the memory of the primeval world was t...
Posterity of Adam Genesis 5:1-24 In contrast to Cain's line in the previous chapter, we have Seth's in this. Note the curious similarity in the names, as though the Cainites professed all that...
In this chapter we have a condensed account of fifteen centuries in human history. The ruin of the race had come through man's belief in the devil's lie. "Ye shall not surely die." The repetition thr...
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Enoch, signifies the dedicated one.- Amos 3:3 . Observe! at the age 65, he is said to have walked with God. May not this be supposed to...
THE WITNESS OF ENOCH ‘Enoch walked with God; and he was not: for God took him.’ Genesis 5:24 The record of one man is given to us as an oasis in the chapter, and he is one of only two men of...
And Enoch walked with God ,.... Which is repeated both for the confirmation of it, and for the singularity of it in that corrupt age; and to cause attention to it, and stir up others to imitate him...
And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him. Ver. 24. And Enoch walked with God. ] And so “condemned the world”: Heb 11:7 first, by his life; secondly, at his death. By his life,...
He was not Any longer on earth or among men; for God took him Out of this sinful and miserable world to himself. He was translated , as it is explained, Hebrews 11:5 , that he should not see d...
THE FAMILY OF ADAM - THROUGH SETH This chapter is called "the book of the genealogy of Adam" (v.1). However, the line of Cain is omitted and only the line of Seth included. The reason for this is in...
Translation of Enoch. B. C. 3017. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Met...
i.e. He appeared not any longer upon earth, or amongst mortal men. The same phrase is in Genesis 42:36 Jeremiah 31:15 . For God took him out of this sinful and miserable world unto himself, an...
‘When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eig...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Notwithstanding the measure of difficulty standing in the way of ascertaining the meaning of the proper names of Scripture, the subject cannot be wisely neglected: what we do know i...
Genesis 5:21-24 In the Bible, besides its ordinary characters, and besides its simply extraordinary men such as David, Solomon, or Isaiah, there is another and a still more interesting order, arou...
Genesis 5:1 . The book of generations; the princely line of holy patriarchs, from whom the Messiah descended. Genesis 5:4 . And begat sons and daughters; but not being primogenitors of the pro...
This is the book of the generations of Adam Distinguished men I. SOME MEN ARE RENDERED DISTINGUISHED BY THE PECULIARITY OF THE TIMES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. Adam; the first human being to (1) in...
§ 3. THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM ( CH . 5:1-6:8) EXPOSITION The present section carries forward the inspired narrative another stage, in which the onward progress or development of the human...
From Enoch to Shem, Ham, and Japheth
walked. See Genesis 5:21 he was not. Genesis 37:30 Genesis 42:36 Jeremiah 31:15 Matthew 2:18 for. 2 Kings 2:11 Luke 23:43 Hebrews 11:5 Hebrews 11:6 1 John 1:7
He was not, for God took him — That is, as it is explained, Hebrews 11:5 , he was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him. But why did God take h...