And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive - Christ, as God, had by His Spirit inspiring Enoch, Noah, and perhaps other prophets (1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5; Jud 1:14), preached repentance to the antediluvians; but they were incorrigible.
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years - It is probable that the corruption of the world, which had now reached its height, had been long and gradually increasing, and this idea receives support from the long respite granted.