For the men of old used to call the prophets sometimes men of God, and sometimes seers, Samuel ix. 9. affixing appropriate and becoming names to their enthusiasm, and inspiration, and to the foreknowledge of affairs which they enjoyed.
Very properly, therefore, the most sacred Moses says that, the earth was corrupted at that time when the virtues of the just Noah were made manifest: "And the whole earth," says he, "was corrupted, because all flesh had corrupted his (αὐτου̃) way upon the earth." Genesis vi. 12.
Now to some persons this expression will seem to have been incorrectly used, and that the consistency with the context, and the truth of the fact will
1 Kings xvii. 10
Genesis xxxviii. 11.
1 Kings xvii 18.
Samuel ix. 9.
Genesis vi. 12.
require that we should read rather that, "All flesh had corrupted its (αὐτῆς) way upon the earth." For it does not agree with the feminine noun "flesh" (τῇ σαρκὶ), if we subjoin not agree a masculine case, the word αὐτοῦ in connection with it.