By: Thomas F. Booher Matthew Poole's commentary on all of Genesis 10 is well worth reading, but let's just take his remarks on Genesis 10:5 and relate it to all the prissy Protestant Popes who are persecuting men for believing what their prominent forefathers believed: Genesis 10:5, "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations." Poole: "The isles of the Gentiles; not isles properly so called; for why should they, having their choice, forsake the continent for islands, and thereby cut off themselves from their brethren? And where had they ships to transport them? But the word isles here and elsewhere signifies all those countries that had the sea between them and Judea, as it doth Isaiah 11:10-11, Isaiah 40:15, Jeremiah 2:10, Jeremiah 25:22, Ezekiel 27:3, Zephaniah 2:11. And isles are here put for the inhabitants, as the words earth and land are commonly used. This division of t...
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