And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Ver. 5. Bringing in the flood] And so burying them all in one universal grave of waters. In this universal deluge God swept away all: as if he had blotted that out of his title, Exodus 34:6, and now took up that emperor's motto, Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus, Let justice be done, though the whole world be undone.