In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Ver. 11. In the second month.] In April, as it is thought; then when everything was in its prime and pride; birds chirping, trees sprouting, &c., nothing less looked for than a flood; then God "shot at them with an arrow suddenly," Psa 64:7 as saith the psalmist. So shall "sudden destruction" 1Th 5:3 come upon the wicked at the last day, when they least look for it. So the sun shone fair upon Sodom the same day wherein, ere night, it was fearfully consumed. What can be more lovely to look on, than the grain field a day before harvest, or a vineyard before the vintage?
All the fountains of the great deep, &c.] So, we live continually betwixt two deaths, the waters above and below us. a "Serve the Lord with fear."
a Nos quasi medios inter duo sepulchra posuit .