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Secrets of Heaven #732

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732. Genesis 7:5. And Noah did everything that Jehovah had commanded him once again means it happened in this way.

See Genesis 6:22, which twice says that "Noah did;" this verse says it only once. And Genesis 6:22 uses the name God where this verse uses Jehovah. The reason is that the passage there dealt with matters of the intellect while this one deals with matters of the will. Matters of intellect regard matters of will as different and separate from themselves, but matters of will view matters of intellect as united to themselves, or as being one with themselves. The ability to understand, you see, rises from the will. This is why the previous chapter uses the word did twice where the present one uses it just once, and why the previous chapter uses the name God where the present one uses Jehovah.

  
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Genesis 7:5

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5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.