Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 9:5

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 9:5 - 9:5

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 9:5 - 9:5

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9:1 - 9:1
9:2 - 9:2
9:3 - 9:3
9:4 - 9:4
9:5 - 9:5
9:6 - 9:6
9:8 - 9:8
9:13 - 9:13
9:20 - 9:20
9:21 - 9:21
9:24 - 9:24
9:25 - 9:25
9:26 - 9:26
9:27 - 9:27

surely your blood of your lives will I require - The fourth part establishes a new power for protecting life - the institution of the civil magistrate (Rom 13:4), armed with public and official authority to repress the commission of violence and crime. Such a power had not previously existed in patriarchal society.