God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Remembered; not as if God had ever forgotten Noe, but he now shews his remembrance of him by the effects. Menochius.—A wind, literally a spirit, which Saint Ambrose and Theodoret understood of the Holy Ghost, that, as he moved over the waters at first, (Calmet. 1:2) to give them fecundity, and to exercise his power in establishing order, so he may shew the same care and providence for this new world, emerging, like the former, from the waters. Bible.—Most interpreters, however, understand this of a violent wind, (Proverbs 25:23. Exodus 14:21) a strong blast, such as was sent to divide the Red sea. Menochius.