Constraints Of Restoration-4

“Eat”—lka aw-kal'—Qal Imperfect—1) To eat, devour, burn up, feed—1a) (Qal)—1a1) To eat (human subject), 1a2) To eat, devour (of beasts & birds), 1a3) To devour, consume (of fire), 1a4) To devour, slay (of sword), 1a5) To devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects - ie, pestilence, drought), 1a6) To devour (of oppression). Strong—a primitive root; To eat (literally or figuratively).

“Flesh”—rsb baw-sawr'—1) Flesh—1a) Of the body—1a1) Of humans, 1a2) Of animals, 1b) The body itself, 1c) Male organ of generation (euphemism), 1d) Kindred, blood-relations, 1e) Flesh as frail or erring (man against God), 1f) All living things, 1g) Animals, 1h) Mankind.

“Life”(See :5)—vpn neh'-fesh—1) Soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion. Strong—properly, A breathing creature, i.e. Animal of (abstractly)--Vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).

“Blood”(See :5— “Lifeblood”)—Md dawm—1) Blood—1a) Of wine (fig.). Strong—Blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy--The juice of the grape; figuratively(especially in the plural)--Bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood). Strong—Flesh (from its freshness); by extension--Body, person; also (by euphemism)--The pudenda of a man.

:5—“Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, & from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Noah(& the reader) is given explicit direction concerning one particularly troubling aspect of man’s corruption by sin...Man(due to his sinful nature(Rom. 7:14—8:1) without God is prone to violence(Gen. 6:11-12) even against his own kind.

Rom. 7:14-8:1—“For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, & bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”