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Gen_6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Ver. 14. Make thee an ark.] Or chest, or coffin. And indeed by the description here set down, the ark, in shape, was like to a coffin for a man’s body, six times so long as it was broad, and ten times so long as it was high: and so fit to figure out, saith an interpreter, {a} Christ’s death and burial, and ours with him, by mortification of the old man: as the apostle applies this type to baptism, {1Pe_3:20-21} whereby we are become "dead" and "buried with Christ". {Rom_6:3-4; Rom_6:6} The poets’ ship, "Argos," may have reference to this ark.
{a} Mr Ainsworth.