“The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.”
Those that came of wicked parents, as of Cain. The children of the godly, which began to degenerate. Having more respect to their beauty and to worldly considerations, than to their manners and godliness. Or, had chosen.
“And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”
Because man could not be won by God’s lenity and long sufferance whereby he strove to overcome him, he would no longer stay his vengeance. Which term God gave man to repent before he would destroy the earth, 1 Pet. 3:20 .
“Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.”
Which usurped authority over others, and did degenerate from that simplicity, wherein their fathers lived. Or, tyrants.
“And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,”
Cross references: : Gen. 8:21 ; Matt. 15:19 Hebrew, every day .
“It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,”
God doth never repent, but he speaketh after our capacity, because he did destroy him, and in that as it were did disavow him to be his creature.
“He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.”
God declareth how much he detesteth sin, seeing the punishment thereof extendeth to the brute beasts.
“And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.”
Meaning, that all were given to the contempt of God, and oppression of their neighbors.
“He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.”
Hebrew, from the face of them . Or, I will destroy mankind. Or, oppression and wickedness.
“Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without.”
Hebrew, Gopher . Hebrew, nests .
“Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it: and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side: with lower, middle chambers, and third stories shalt thou make it.”
That is, of three heights, as appeareth in the figure.
“And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.”
To the intent that in this great enterprise and mockings of the whole world, thou mayest be confirmed, that thy faith fail not.
“And Noe did all things which God commanded him.”
Heb. 11:7 That is, he obeyed God’s commandment in all points without adding or diminishing.