yet other seven dayes] Some make a mysticall observation of the number of seven with reference to the Sabbath, and suppose that Noah on that day performed his most solemne devotion to God with prayers for good newes to be brought him concerning the ceasing of the flood; and by this third sending, and his intermission betweene, we may observe not onely his great desire of removall of the curse from the earth, but his patient waiting on Gods time for obtainment of the thing desired. See James 5. 7. returned not] Which might be by going so farre as to lose her way back againe, but it was rather by finding (that which before she did not, vers. 9.) a resting-place for the sole of her foot, and food for her sustenance, which together with a more free aire and libertie then before she could have, made her neglect both her mate and her Master yet prisoners in the Arke.