And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Ver. 12. Forty days and forty nights.] This was God's last warning-piece, shot off at these secure sinners, to arouse them, if haply they would awake out of "the snare of the devil," who lay "taken captive by him, at his will": 2Ti 2:26 God loveth to fore-signify, saith the heathen historian.