"The Hundred and Twenty Years" of
Genesis 6:3 This Is Appendix 24
From The Companion Bible.
These are generally taken as meaning 120 years
before the Flood. But this mistake has been made by not observing that the
word for "men" in Genesis 6:1,2 is in the singular
number with the definite article, as in verse 3
"man", and means THE MAN ADAM. The word
"also" clearly refers to him. It has no meaning if
"men" be read, in the plural. It means, and can mean, only
that Adam himself, "also", as well as the rest of mankind,
had "corrupted his way".1 If
"men" be the meaning, then it may be well asked, who are the
others indicated by the word "also"?
In Genesis 2:17, the Lord God had
declared that Adam should die. Here, in Genesis 6, it was made more clear
that though he had lived 810 years he should surely die; and that his
breath, or the spirit of life from God, should not for ever remain in him.
See the notes on Genesis 6. This fixes the
chronology of verse 3, and shows that
long before that time, Anno Mundi. 810, and even before Enoch, this
irruption of fallen angels had taken place. This was the cause of all the
"ungodliness" against which the prohecy of Enoch was
directed in Jude 14, and which
ultimately brought on the fulfilment of his prohecy in the Judgement of
the Flood. See Appendix 23 and Appendix 25.
1
(beshaggam) because that also is so
pointed in the Codex Hilleli. This makes it the Infantry Kalends (calends)
of shagag, to transgress, go astray, and means,
"because that in their going astray, he (Adam) also is
flesh".
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