SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:21
Y olió el SEÑOR olor de reposo; y dijo el SEÑOR en su corazón: No volveré más a maldecir la tierra por causa del hombre; porque el intento del corazón del hombre es malo desde su niñez; ni volveré más a herir toda cosa viva, como he hecho.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 8:21
Verse 21. The Lord smelled a sweet savour] That is, he was well pleased with this religious act, performed in obedience to his own appointment, and in faith of the promised saviour. That this sacrifice prefigured that which was offered by our blessed Redeemer in behalf of the world, is sufficiently evident from the words of St. Paul, Eph. v. 2: Christ hath loved us, and given himself for its an offering and a sacrifice to God for a SWEET-SMELLING savour; where the words osmhn euwdiav of the apostle are the very words used by the Septuagint in this place. I will not again curse the ground] Psa al lo osiph, I will not add to curse the ground] there shall not be another deluge to destroy the whole earth: for the imagination of man's heart, yk ki, ALTHOUGH the imagination of man's heart should be evil, i.e. should they become afterwards as evil as they have been before, I will not destroy the earth by a FLOOD. God has other means of destruction; and the next time he visits by a general judgment, FIRE is to be the agent. 2 Pet. iii. 7.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-22 - Noah was now gone out into a desolate world, where, one might have thought, his first care would have been to build a house for himself but he begins with an alter for God. He begins well, that begins with God. Though Noah's stock of cattle was small, and that saved at grea care and pains, yet he did not grudge to serve God out of it. Serving God with our little is the way to make it more; we must never think that is wasted with which God is honoured. The first thing done in the new world was an act of worship. We are now to express ou thankfulness, not by burnt-offerings, but by praise, and piou devotions and conversation. God was well pleased with what was done But the burning flesh could no more please God, than the blood of bull and goats, except as typical of the sacrifice of Christ, and expressing Noah's humble faith and devotedness to God. The flood washed away the race of wicked men, but it did not remove sin from man's nature, wh being conceived and born in sin, thinks, devises, and loves wickedness even from his youth, and that as much since the flood as before. But God graciously declared he never would drown the world again. While the earth remains, and man upon it, there shall be summer and winter. It is plain that this earth is not to remain always. It, and all the works in it, must shortly be burned up; and we look for new heavens and a ne earth, when all these things shall be dissolved. But as long as it doe remain, God's providence will cause the course of times and seasons to go on, and makes each to know its place. And on this word we depend that thus it shall be. We see God's promises to the creatures mad good, and may infer that his promises to all believers shall be so __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וירח 7306 יהוה 3068 את 853 ריח 7381 הניחח 5207 ויאמר 559 יהוה 3068 אל 413 לבו 3820 לא 3808 אסף 3254 לקלל 7043 עוד 5750 את 853 האדמה 127 בעבור 5668 האדם 120 כי 3588 יצר 3336 לב 3820 האדם 120 רע 7451 מנעריו 5271 ולא 3808 אסף 3254 עוד 5750 להכות 5221 את 853 כל 3605 חי 2416 כאשׁר 834 עשׂיתי׃ 6213
