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Genesis 9:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The new life of man on the earth

under a new revelation of the Divine favor. The chief points are—

I. UNLIMITED POSSESSION OF THE EARTH, and use of its inhabitants and products, whether for food or otherwise; thus supplying—

1. The scope of life.

2. The enjoy-meat of life.

3. The development of life.

II. Absolute RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE, and preservation of the gentler feelings (the blood being forbidden as injurious to man in this case), promoting—

1. The supremacy of the higher nature over the lower.

2. The revelation of the ethical law.

3. The preparation of the heart for Divine communications.

III. Man living in BROTHERHOOD,

The earth waits for such inhabitants; already by Divine judgments prepared for them.—R.

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