Why, after the entrance of Noah into the ark, did seven days elapse, after which the deluge came?
[Genesis 7:10]. 13. The kind Savior of the world allows a space for the repentance of sinners, in order that when they see the ark placed in front of them as a sort of type, made with respect to the then present time, and when they see all the different kinds of living creatures shut up in it which the earth used to bear on its surface, according to its parts adapted to the different species, they might believe the predictions of the deluge which had been made to them, so that, fearing total destruction above all things, they might be speedily converted, destroying and eradicating all their iniquity and wickedness. In the second place, this language is a most manifest representation of the exceeding great abundance of the kind mercy of the beneficent Savior, by destroying the wickedness of many years, which from the time of their birth to old age has extended itself over their conduct in those persons who practice penitence for a few days, for the divine nature forgets all evil and is
