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The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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A Two-Fold Corruption
Commentators explain that the world's sin had two dimensions. "Corrupt before God" points to religious decay, idolatry, and contempt for God. "Filled with violence" describes the inevitable result: oppression, robbery, and cruelty toward other people. The vertical relationship with God was broken, leading to a broken horizontal relationship within humanity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
דור dôr “age, time from birth to death,” applied either to an individual or the whole contemporary race, running paralle…
19th Century
Anglican
The earth. —This is the larger word, and it occurs no less than six times in these three verses, thus indicating a more widespread…
16th Century
Protestant
The earth also was corrupt before God. In the first part of this verse, Moses describes that impious contempt of God, which no longer left…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The earth also was corrupt before God That is, the inhabitants of the earth were corrupt in their lives and conversa…
Noah did not find favor in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him because, by both his life and preaching, he condemned the world. But he f…
