Genesis 6:5

And God saw. — Really, And Jehovah saw.

Imagination. — More exactly, form, shape. Thus every idea or embodied thought, which presented itself to the mind through the working of the heart — that is, the whole inner nature of man — “was only evil continually” — Heb., all the day, from morning to night, without reproof of conscience or fear of the Divine justice. A more forcible picture of complete depravity could scarcely be drawn; and this corruption of man’s inner nature is ascribed to the overthrow of moral and social restraints.