Genesis 6:5

And God (Jehovah, which should have been rendered 'the Lord') saw —indicative of the long-continued patience (Calvin) of the Deity, under whose immediate cognizance the great experiment of the primeval age of the world was wrought out— that the wickedness ( ra'ath ; from the root raa, to make a loud noise, to rage, hence to be wicked) of man (literally, of the Adam : this was the first aggravation of the wickedness which God beheld; it was the tumultuous rebellion of the being whom he had created in his own image) was great (it was no slight iniquity, but a wide-spread, firmly-rooted, and deeply-staining corruption, the second aggravation) in the earth . This was the third aggravation; it was in the world which he had made, and not only in it, but pervading it so "that integrity possessed no longer a single corner" (Calvin). And that every imagination — yetzer , a device, like pottery ware, from yatza , to fashion as a potter ( Genesis 2:7 ; Genesis 8:19 ). Cf. yotzer, a potter, used of God ( Psalms 94:9 , Psalms 94:20 ). Hence the fashioned purpose ( ε ̓ νθυ ì μησις ) as distinguished from the thought out of which it springs—"a distinction not generally or constantly recognized by the mental philosopher, though of essential importance in the theory of the mind" (Murphy)— of the thoughts — mahshevoth ; from hashal , to think, to meditate = ε ̓ ì ννοια ; cf. Hebrews 9:12 ( T . Lewis)— of his heart —or, the heart, the seat of the affections and emotions of the mind. Cf. 16:15 (love); Proverbs 31:11 (confidence); Proverbs 5:12 (contempt); Psalms 104:15 (joy). Here "the feeling, or deep mother heart, the state of soul, lying below all, and giving moral character to all (Lewis). Cf. the psychological division of Hebrews 4:12 was only evil continually . Literally, every day . "If this is not total depravity, how can language express it?" Though the phrase does not mean "from infancy," yet "the general doctrine" (of man's total and universal depravity) "is properly and consistently elicited hence" (Calvin).