God remembered Noah
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Καὶ ἐμνήσθη ὁ θεὸς τοῦ Νῶε, καὶ πάντων τῶν θηρίων καὶ πάντων τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ πάντων τῶν πετεινῶν καὶ πάντων τῶν ἑρπετῶν ὅσα ἦν μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ· καὶ ἐπήγαγεν ὁ θεὸς πνεῦμα ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐκόπασεν τὸ ὕδωρ.
μνησθῆναι, “to remember,” is the same covenant-memory verb used of God's remembering his promises elsewhere (Exod 2:24, 6:5; Luke 1:72) — not a lapse of divine attention now made good, but the biblical idiom for God acting to keep faith. The πνεῦμα (“wind/spirit”) God now sends over the earth deliberately echoes Gen 1:2, where the πνεῦμα θεοῦ moved over the waters at the first creation; here it moves again to begin undoing the flood — a new-creation gesture. ἐκόπασεν, “abated, grew calm,” is the very verb the Gospels use of the sea falling calm at Jesus' word (Mark 4:39, 6:51).
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