And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Ver. 13. The end of all flesh is come before me.] I will surely, and swiftly (certissime citissimeque) destroy them. A like threatening there is used in Ezekiel 7:2,3; Ezekiel 7:6, against Israel, when once their sins were full ripe, and "hanged but for mowing," as we say: "The end is come," "is come," "is come," and so some ten or twelve times, "Is come, is come," q.d ., destruction is at next door by, and Noah must know it too. Not by his skill in astrology, as Berosus belies him, but by divine premonition. For "shall I hide from" Noah, from "Abraham," "that thing which I do"? Gen 18:17 No surely, they shall know all: they shall be both of God's court and counsel For "the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him" Psa 25:14 And "the Lord will do nothing" of this nature, "but he will first reveal it unto his servants the prophets". Amo 3:7 And even to this day, the more faithful and familiar we are with God, so much the sooner and better do we foresee his judgments, and can foreshow them to others; as those that are well acquainted with men, know by their looks and gestures that which strangers understand not, but by their actions: As finer tempers are more sensible of the changes of weather, &c.
I will destroy them.] I will corrupt them, - so the Hebrew hath it, - I will punish them in kind; pay them in their own coin; corrupt them from the earth, as they have corrupted themselves in the earth, which also now is burdened with them, and cries to me for a vomit to spue them out.