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| Chapter XIX.—Accurate Account of the Deluge.
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Chapter XIX.—Accurate Account of the Deluge.
And neither does he make out that there was a second
flood: on the contrary, he said that never again would there be a flood
of water on the world; as neither indeed has there been, nor ever shall
be. And he says that eight human beings were preserved in the ark, in that
which had been prepared by God’s direction, not by Deucalion, but
by Noah; which Hebrew word means in English677
| 677 Literally, in Greek, ἀνάπαυσις. |
“rest,” as we have elsewhere shown that Noah, when he
announced to the men then alive that there was a flood coming, prophesied
to them, saying, Come thither, God calls you to repentance. On this
account he was fitly called Deucalion.678
| 678 Deucalion, from Δεῦτε,
come, and καλἐω, I
call. | And this Noah had three sons (as we mentioned in the
second book), whose names
were Shem, and Ham, and Japhet;
and these had three wives, one wife each; each man and his wife. This
man some have surnamed Eunuchus. All the eight persons, therefore, who
were found in the ark were preserved. And Moses showed that the flood
lasted forty days and forty nights, torrents pouring from heaven, and
from the fountains of the deep breaking up, so that the water overtopped
every high hill 15 cubits. And thus the race of all the men that then
were was destroyed, and those only who were protected in the ark were
saved; and these, we have already said, were eight. And of the ark,
the remains are to this day to be seen in the Arabian mountains. This,
then, is in sum the history of the deluge.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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