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The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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A Purposeful Pace
John Calvin suggests the forty-day duration of the rain was intentional. It wasn't a sudden cataclysm but a gradual one, allowing Noah to meditate on God's power and forcing the wicked to experience the prolonged reality of the judgment they had mocked for so long. God's judgments are not random; they are full of purpose.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The date is given here at which the flood began and the entrance into the ark was completed. In seven days. On the seventh day from the co…
19th Century
Baptist
These eight persons are very carefully mentioned. The Lord knoweth them that are his, and they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts,…
16th Century
Protestant
And the rain was upon the earth. Although the Lord burst open the floodgates of the waters, He does not allow them to break forth all at o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights , &c.] So long it was falling upon it, after the windows…
The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come indoors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go i…
