2. מורא môrā' — “fear, reverence, awful deed.” חת chat — “dread, breaking of the courage.”

Noah is saved…

God blessed Noah. —The blessing bestowed upon Noah, the second father of humankind, is exactly parallel to that given to …

And God blessed Noah. From this we infer with what great fear Noah had been downcast, because God, so often and at such length, takes pain…

And God blessed Noah and his sons
With temporal blessings, not spiritual ones; for though some of them were blessed …

The blessing of God is the cause of our doing well. On him we depend; to him we should be thankful.

Let us not forget the advantage and plea…