walked with God] This expression imports a briefe description of a truly religious man, who is not idle, stands not still, but makes a progresse forward as they that walke: and he walks not inordinately, but by a rule, Galatians 6:16. And his walking with God sheweth his sinceritie, in ordering his life not so much for applause and approbation of men, as for acceptation with God. and he was not] Not dead, (as is said of the end of all the rest that are mentioned in this Chapter) or, Heb. and Not he, that is, not he died, or it was not with him as with others, by the common course of mortalitie; or he appeared not in the sight and societie of men. So Hebrews 11:5. the like phrase you may see Genesis 42:36. &Jeremiah 31:15. for God tooke him] God translated him body and soule from this life to a better, from earth to heaven, that he might not see death, Hebrews 11:5. that is, not come under the expectation of death by sicknesse or decay, or under the power of it by parting his soule from his body.