But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
1. And God remembered Noah . Moses now descends more particularly to that other part of the subject, which shows, that Noah was not disappointed in his hope of the salvation divinely promised to him. The remembrance of which Moses speaks, ought to be referred not only to the external aspect of things, (so to speak,) but also to the inward feeling of the holy man.
God remembered Noah when mankind itself was driven into forgetfulness. The whole race was extinguished except Noah's family, so His remembering Noah was mercy's return to mankind. Even the faithful grow weary in long affliction and fear they are forgotten; Noah perhaps thought so too when the waters lingered. But God restrained His wrath and showed Himself to him at last.
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Commenting on Genesis 8:1-3
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark,.... Not that God had forgotten Noah, for he does not, and cannot forget his creatures, properly speaking; but this is said after the manner of men, and as it might have seemed to Noah, who having heard nothing of him for five months, and having been...