returned continually] Heb. going and returning. That is, with all speed, running and recoyling to their proper places and channels from whence they were gathered to make up the flood; which sheweth their readinesse to obey the command of the Creator; an obedience observable throughout the whole creation from the winged Seraphims, Isaiah 6:2. the flying Angel, Revelation 8:13. to the crawling vermine, Exod. 8. 17, 18. Acts 12:23. Psalms 148:10. Onely men betwixt both, and contrary unto both, are disobedient and rebellious to their Maker, who should follow the example of the one sort, as expecting hereafter to be their partners in glory, and goe beyond the other, as much as they are behind him, or below him in faculties and favours from God both to enable them for, and encourage them in his service. after the end of the hundred and fifty dayes] That is, from the beginning of the flood (so long the waters prevailed, Chap. 7. vers. 24.) and after that time they began to be abated.