John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 8:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Noah went forth, etc.] Being obedient to the divine command, and no doubt with great pleasure in his countenance, and with a heart full of thankfulness for so great a deliverance; and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: in all eight persons, and no more were saved in the ark, as Peter observes, (<600320>1 Peter 3:20) and the Arabic writers say f470, Noah and his sons built a city near the place where they came out of the ark, and called it Themanin, giving this as a reason of the name, we are eight, that is, who have escaped; so Berosus says f471, that the earth being dried of the waters, there were then only eight men in Armenia, from whence all mankind sprung.

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