And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Death never triumphed so utterly as in the flood, heaps upon heaps of the dead. God, sovereign Lord of all life, had every right to unmake what He made; His holiness blazed forth in that judgment, and the creatures' destruction with sinful man made His wrath unmistakably terrible.
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Commenting on Genesis 7:21-24
Five months the waters held their height, far longer than needed to drown every living thing. God prolonged it to manifest His stern displeasure at sin itself. Noah, a man of habitual devotion, made God his refuge and did not fear, though the mountains shook.
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The rains fell forty days and raised the waters fifteen cubits above the highest mountains; then those waters held steady for one hundred and fifty days more. This awful judgment ran six months and ten days in all, time enough to sear into human memory the horror of God's wrath.
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