Genesis 8:1-3

1-3. God remembered Noah The ark, containing the seed of the Church and of the human race, a solitary speck in the watery wilderness, was remembered by God . The tokens of that remembrance followed . The providential means by which the land was dried and made once more a habitation for man are now related . Three causes are mentioned: a wind passing over the earth, (toward the sea,) which dispelled the clouds and laid open the earth to the sun, (a land breeze, which carried the clouds seaward;) as a consequence of this, the shutting of the windows of heaven; and, thirdly, the stopping of the fountains of the great deep, which was probably effected by the gradual re-elevation of the land which had been gradually subsiding during the increase of the deluge . As the sun broke through the clouds the waters were thus seen to follow the wind . As the result of these causes the waters subsided. And the waters turned from off the earth, continually turning, and diminished at the end of the hundred and fifty days.