Genesis 6:11

II.. WICKED WORLD.

11. The earth also was corrupt before God.

A general statement is here made of the causes that led God to send the Deluge upon man. The earth was filled with corruption. In the preceding part of the chapter the causes that led to this corruption are more fully described. The righteous race of Seth, which had preserved its piety by keeping itself distinct from the wicked offspring of Cain, had ceased to do so; they had intermarried, and. tide of wickedness, sensuality and violence had swept over the earth. The race had become almost universally corrupt--so utterly depraved that its reform would be. hopeless task; its only possible fate was destruction. It has always been the policy of the divine government to destroy that which is hopelessly corrupt. The decaying carcass is always finally removed, whether it be physical or moral.