Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
qui autrefois avaient été incrédules, lorsque la patience de Dieu se prolongeait, aux jours de Noé, pendant la construction de l'arche, dans laquelle un petit nombre de personnes, c'est-à-dire, huit, furent sauvées à travers l'eau.
KJV
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Epiphanius
Panarion (Adversus Haereses)
1 — 2 —4 Gen. 5, 18. 24 vgl. Hebr. 11, 5 — 4 —5 Gen. 521. 25. 29 — 6 ff vgl. Gen. 6, 9 ff — 12 vgl. I Pet. 3, 20 — vgl. Gen. 7, 2 — 16 die Zabl nach Julius Africanus vgl. Georgius Sync. p. 83; dazu ep. ad Job. episc. Hieros. = Hieronymi ep. 51, 6, 7; CSEL 54, 1 S. 407, 20 Hilberg…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
n the Church; since then "a few . . . souls were saved in the ark [Vulg.: 'by water']," according to 1 Pet. 3:20. He also mentions "the crossing of the Red Sea": which was a figure of our Baptism, in respect of our delivery from the bondage of sin; hence the Apostle says ( 1 Cor.…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
as in the time of the deluge there was none outside the Ark, which denotes the Church, according to 1 Pet. 3:20,21. And it has been said above ( Q[68], A[2] ), that before receiving a sacrament, the reality of the sacrament can be had through the very desire of receiving the sacr…
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