515. Genesis 5:19-20. And after Jared fathered Enoch he lived eight hundred years, and he fathered sons and daughters. And all Jared's days were nine hundred sixty-two years, and he died.
The meanings again are the same as those mentioned above [§§482, 487-489, 494]. Anyone can see that their ages did not really extend as far as 962 years in Jared's case and 969 in Methuselah's. The same thing can also be seen from the points that will be made at verse 3 of the next chapter [§575], by the Lord's divine mercy, where the text says, "Their days will be one hundred twenty years." The number of years, then, does not mean the lifetime of any individual but the times and states of the church.
