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Chapter L.—The
Flood.
“Wherefore, in short, at the first, when all
the earth had been stained with sins, God brought a flood upon the
world, which you say happened under Deucalion; and at that time He
saved a certain righteous man, with his sons, in an ark, and with him
the race of all plants and animals.824
| 824 [Comp. book iv. 12;
Homily VIII. 17.—R.] | And
yet even those who sprang from them, after a time, again did deeds like
to those of their predecessors; for those things that had befallen them
were forgotten, so that their descendants did not even believe that the
flood had taken place. Wherefore God also decreed that there
should not be another flood in the present world, else there should
have been one in every generation, according to the account of their
sins by reason of their unbelief; but He rather granted that certain
angels who delight in evil should bear sway over the several
nations—and to them was given power over individual men, yet only
on this condition, if any one first had made himself subject to them by
sinning—until He should come who delights in good, and by Him the
number of the righteous should be completed, and by the increase of the
number of pious men all over
the world impiety should be in some measure repressed, and it should be
known to all that all that is good is done by God.
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