A pleasing aroma, and a promise
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καὶ ὠσφράνθη Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας, καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς διανοηθείς Οὐ προσθήσω ἔτι τοῦ καταράσασθαι τὴν γῆν διὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅτι ἔγκειται ἡ διάνοια τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπιμελῶς ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ ἐκ νεότητος· οὐ προσθήσω οὖν ἔτι πατάξαι πᾶσαν σάρκα ζῶσαν καθὼς ἐποίησα.
ὀσμὴ εὐωδίας, “a fragrant aroma,” is priestly, sacrificial language straight out of Leviticus; the New Testament reuses this very phrase for what is spiritually acceptable to God (2 Cor 2:15, Eph 5:2, Phil 4:18). God's inward reflection that follows — ἔγκειται ἡ διάνοια..., “the mind of man is set upon evil” — is stated as unflinchingly here, right after the Flood, as it was before it began (Gen 6:5); the promise that follows is not that humanity has changed, but that God will no longer answer that fact with another flood. ἐπιμελῶς, “carefully, diligently,” is the same rare adverb the New Testament uses only once, of a woman searching for a lost coin (Luke 15:8).
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