26. NOAH "PERFECT".
(GEN.
6:9).
The
Appendixes were written by Dr. E.W. Bullinger.
The
Heb. word tamim
means without
blemish, and is the
technical word for bodily and physical perfection, and not
moral.
Hence it is used of animals of sacrificial
purity. It is rendered
without
blemish in Ex. 12:5;
29:1. Lev. 1:3, 10; 3:1, 6; 4:3,
23, 28, 32; 5:15, 18; 6:6; 9:2, 3; 14:10; 22:19; 23:12, 18.
Num.
6:14; 28:19, 31; 29:2, 8, 13, 20, 23, 29, 32, 36. Ezek.
43:22, 23,
25; 45:18, 23; 46:4, 6, 13.
Without
Spot.
Num. 19:2; 28:3, 9, 11; 29:17, 26.
Undefiled.
Ps. 119:1.
This
shows that Gen. 6:9 does not speak of Noah's moral perfection,
but tells us that he and his family alone had preserved their pedigree
and kept it pure, in spite of the prevailing corruption brought about
by
the fallen angels. See Ap. 23 and 25.
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