Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 8:1

1. AND God remembred Noah , and every living thing , and all the Cattle that was with him in the Ark: And God made a Wind to pass over the Earth, and the Waters asswaged.

(i. e) He shewed by his actions that he minded and cared for him: Or, pitied and succoured him. God is said to remember his people when after some delays or suspensions of his favour, he returns and shews kindness to them, as Gen. 19. 29. and 30. 22. Exod. 32. 13. Iob 14. 13. Psal. 132. 1.

As God punished the Beasts for mans sin, so now he favours them for mans sake.

A drying and burning Wind, like that of Exod. 14. 21. which had a natural power to dry up the Waters, but that was heightned by the assistance of an higher and miraculous operation of God.

Marginal references: Heb. Beast▪