The dispensational use of this word, is set out in articles entitled

Man (p. 1) and Pleroma (p. 197).  In a number of passages, `new' is

associated with the idea that `former things' must pass away and come into

mind no more.  It

is this aspect that justifies the comment of Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:9,10.

He is considering the endless round that everywhere marks the way of the

world.  One generation passeth away and another generation cometh.  The sun

is no sooner risen than it seems to hasten to the place from which it arose.

The wind whirls about continually and returns according to its circuits.  All

the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place from

whence the rivers come, thither they return again.  It is this endless round

that is in contrast with that which is `new' that gives the `new' man and

`new' creation most of its wonder and blessedness.  See also articles

entitled Body1; Both1; Middle Wall (p. 12), for further application  of  this

conception  of  newness.

Noah.  Peter speaks of Noah in both of his epistles, calling him the `eighth

person', and reminding us that there were `eight souls' saved in the ark (1

Pet. 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:5).  This association of the number `eight' with Noah is

not accidental.  We find that the number 8 is attached to Noah and his sons

by numerics, Noah, Shem and Japheth between them giving the total 888.  For

explanation of this statement, see the article entitled Numerics (p. 114).

Eight is the octave, the number that makes a fresh start, and this feature is

very marked in the typical position occupied by Noah in the record of

The following parallels between Adam and Noah are sufficient to justify

the teaching that Noah (the eighth person) sets forth in type the Second

A judgment in the background which

A flood in the background that left

left the earth without form and

the earth a ruin (Gen. 7:17 -24).

void (Gen. 1:2; Isa. 45:18).

(The parallel between these two passages is so close that commentators are

divided as to which of them 2 Peter 3:5,6 refers).

The dry land appears on the third

The dry land appears in Noah's day,

grass and trees grow (Gen. 1:9-13)

601st year, and the pluckt olive

leaf indicated to Noah that this

was so (Gen. 8:11 -13).

Living creatures are `brought forth'

Living creatures are

fourth' from the water and from the

with Noah out of the

ark that they

earth, and God blessed them saying,

may breed abundantly

in the earth,

`Be fruitful and multiply, and

and be fruitful, and

multiply in

fill the waters in the seas, and

the earth (Gen. 8:15

let fowl multiply in the earth'

Gen. 1:20-25).

Man made in the image of God to have

`And God blessed Noah and his sons,

`dominion over the fish of the sea,

and said unto them, Be fruitful,

and over fowl of the air, and over

and multiply, and replenish the

the cattle, and over all the earth,

earth,and the fear of you and the