Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 7:4

4. For yet seven days , and I will cause it to Rain upon the Earth forty days and forty nights: And every living substance that I have made, will I destroy from off the face of the Earth.

Or, After seven days, the Hebrew Lamed being put for after, a[illegible: 1+ letters] it i[illegible: 1+ letters] Exod. 16. 1. Psal. 19. 3. Ier. 41. 4. Or, within seven days, which time God allowed to the World as a further space of Repentance, whereof, therefore it is probable, Noah gave them notice: And it is not unlikely that many of them who slighted the threatning, when it was at 120 years distance, now hearing a second threatning, and considering the nearness of their danger, might be more affected and brought to true Repentance: Who though destroyed in their bodies by the Flood for their former and long impenitency, which God would not so far pardon, yet might be saved in their Spirits. See 1 Pet. 4. 6. And as some preserved in the Ark were damned, so others drowned in the deluge might be eternally saved.

All that hath in it the breath of Life, as was said ch. 6. 17.

Marginal references: Heb. blot out▪