22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. …
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; …
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-22)Here is, I. Noah’s thankful acknowledgment of God’s favour to him, in completing the mercy of his deliverance, Gen. 8:20. 1. He built an altar . Hitherto he had done nothing without particular instructions and commands from God. He had a particular call into the ark, and another out of it; but, altars and sacrifices being already of divine institution for religious worship, he did not stay for a p…
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