Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 5:21
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Genesis5:21
21. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah .
Whose name is thought by some learned men to contain a prophesie of the flood which was to come a thousand years after, for it signifies, He dies, and the dart or Arrow of Gods vengeance comes. Or, He dies, and the sending forth of the Waters comes.
Marginal references: Gr. Mathusala▪
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