John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:8
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Ver. 8. But Noah found grace. ] Because in covenant with God; who of himself was a child of wrath, and saved by grace only, though "just and perfect in his generation." The mercy seat was no larger than the ark; to show that the grace of God extends no further than the covenant. As all out of the ark were drowned, so all out of the covenant are damned. read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 6:7
Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Ver. 7. I will destroy man. ] See here the venemous and mischievous nature of sin. It causeth God to make a world, and again to unmake it: it sets him against man his masterpiece, and makes him, though he be φιλανθρωπος , not only to devise, but to delight in the destruction of his own... read more