CHAP. VI.
Mans sinnes cause of the deluge. 4. Giants were then vpon the earth. 8. Noe being iust was commanded to build the Arke, 18. wherin he with seuen persons more, and the seed of other liuing things were saved.
1AND after that men began to be multiplied vpon the earth, and had procreation of daughters, 2the [1] sonnes of God seeing the daughters of men that they were faire, tooke to themselues wiues out of al which they had chosen. 3And God said: My spirit shal not remaine in man for euer, because he is flesh: and his dayes shal be ″ an hundred and twentie yeares. 4And ″ Giants were vpon the earth in those dayes. For after the sonnes of God did companie with the daughters of men, & they brought forth children, these be the mightie of the old world, famous men. 5And God seeing the malice of men was much on the earth, & that al the cogitation of their hart was bent to evil at al times, 6it [2] repented him that he had made man on the earth. And touched inwardly with sorrow of hart, 7I wil, saith he: cleane take away man, whom I haue created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from that which creepeth euen vnto the foules of the ayre. For it repenteth me that I have made them.
Eccl. 44, 178But Noe found grace before our Lord. 9These are the generations of Noe: ″ Noe was a iust and perfect man in [3] his generations, he did walke with God. 10And he begat three sonnes, Sem, Cham, and Iapheth. 11And the earth was corrupted before God, & was replenished with iniquitie. 12And when God had perceived that the earth was corrupted (for al flesh had corrupted his way vpon the earth) 13he said to Noe: The end of al flesh is come before me, the earth is replenished with iniquitie from the face of them, and I wil destroy them with the earth. 14Make thee an arke of timber planke: cabinets shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with bitume. 15And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the Arke shal be three hundred ″ cubits: fiftie cubits the breadth, and thirtie cubits the height of it. 16Thou shalt make a window in the arke, & in a cubit finish the top of it: & the dore of the arke thou shalt set at the side below, middle chambers & third lofts shalt thou make in it. 17Behold I wil bring the waters of a great floud vpon the earth, that I may destroy al flesh wherin there is breath of life vnder heauen. Al thinges that are in the earth shal be consumed. 18And I wil establish my couenant with thee: and thou shalt enter into the arke, thou and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sonnes with thee. 19And of al liuing creatures
- ↑ The professours of true religion were called the sonnes of God, the followers of errours the sonnes of Men.
- ↑ God who is immutable, & subject to no passion, yet by the enormitie of sinnes seemeth prouoked to wrath, and to repent that he had made man. S. Amb. li. de. Noe & arca. c. 4.
- ↑ In al generations God reserued some iust. Much more in the law of Grace.
