and his sonnes, &c.] None but they; which confutes the account of the seventie Interpreters, which extend the age of Methuselah beyond the flood, which cannot be true, because he was none of those that were preserved in the Arke; and it is not like he perished in the flood, therefore it is most probable, he dyed before it came upon all flesh. because of tho waters] Hebr. from the face of the waters.