And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Ver. 1. Be fruitful and multiply.] Here God reneweth the world by the same word wherewith he had created it; and being reconciled to mankind, he blesseth them in like manner as before the fall. Sin once pardoned, is as if it never had been committed. Christ tells his returning Shulamite, that she was as amiable in every point as she had been before her relapse, Son 4:1 her hair, teeth, temples, all as fair and well-featured as ever.