Genesis 6:7
Douay-Rheims
He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Augustine of Hippo
When God announces the death of all animals on the earth and in the air, the intention is to declare the magnitude of the coming disaster. There is no question here of punishing with death irrational animals as though they were guilty of sin.
Source details
A.D. 430 · on Gen 6:7 (City of God 15.25)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.