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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died,.... This was the oldest man that ever lived, no man ever lived to a thousand years: the Jews give this as a reason…
The accounts here run on for several generations without any thing remarkable, or any variation but of the names and numbers; but at length there comes in one that must not be passed over so, of whom…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Methuselah Possibly = "the man of Shelah"; and, if so, Shelah may indicate the name of a deity; cf. Methushael (Gen 4:18) = "the man of God."