Noah

and Noah, proclaiming repentance;

" And the Shepherd, having put the saying simply about those who have fallen asleep, knows certain just men among the nations and among the Jews, not only before the coming of the Lord, but also before the law, according to their pleasing of God, like Abel, like Noah, like any other just man.

But Noah, who did not become as Adam, is saved by divine oversight;

These, as the Hebrew Rabbis themselves inform us, were obliged to observe the laws given to Adam and Noah, to abstain from idols and blood, and other things, that were prohibited;

The first objection usually made against the lawfulness of war is taken from the law given to Noah and his posterity, Gen.

Neither the law of Moses, nor that given to Noah established any thing new, they were only a declaratory repetition of the law of nature, that had been obliterated by depraved custom.

" For even if He had regard to the oblations of Abel, and smelled the holocausts of Noah with pleasure — what gladness is there either in the entrails of a wether or in the reek of burning victims?

But if he speaks of his own coming, why does he compare it to the days of Noah and of Lot, foul and atrocious — a god gentle and mild?

but nevertheless a man, and he has died, as Adam, as Abel, as Noah, as Abraham, as Moses, as any you might name of those who shared the same nature.

but finding one alone righteous in that generation, he preserved him with wife and children in a certain ark and set him, sole survivor, upon the earth.

For from where was Noah found just, if the righteousness of the natural law did not go before him?

In short, let them show, as we have already said before, that Adam kept the Sabbath, or that Abel, offering to God a holy victim, pleased him by the religion of the Sabbath, or that Enoch, translated, was a keeper of the Sabbath, or that Noah, the builder of the ark, observed the Sabbath on account of the immense flood, or that Abraham offered his son Isaac in observance of the Sabbath, or that Me …

For the rest, how can it be that that almighty God, the invisible, whom no man has seen nor can see, he who dwells in unapproachable light, he who dwells not in things made with hands, at whose sight the earth trembles, the mountains melt like wax, who grasps the whole world in his hand like a nest, to whom heaven is a throne and earth a footstool, in whom is every place, while he is himself not i …

If that is the reason, let them recall that Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch himself, survived the cataclysm—who surely, by domestic name and hereditary tradition, had heard and remembered concerning the grace of his great-grandfather with God and concerning all his preachings, since Enoch had enjoined nothing else upon his son Methuselah than that he should hand down the knowledge of these things to his posterity.

" But afterward to Noah, when the subjection of all the beasts of the earth and the birds of the heaven and the things that move on the earth and the fishes of the sea and every serpent had been enumerated, He says:

But the reformation also of the second human race is reckoned from a monogamous mother.

As far, then, as concerns the restitution of the beginning, the principle both of your appointed condition and of your hope demands of you that which was from the beginning according to the beginning—which is both reckoned to you in Adam and reckoned over again in Noah.