and spared not the old world The à fortioriargument is continued, and enters on the series of typical examples of judgments which St Peter had heard from our Lord's lips in Luke 17:26-29. In regard to this instance we note the parallelism with 1 Peter 3:20, extending even to the stress laid on the number of those who were rescued from the destruction "Noah, the eighth person," is, according to a common idiom, equivalent to "Noah and seven others." The nouns in the clause that follows are remarkable as being all without the article in the Greek.

bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly The description of Noah as "a preacher of righteousness" has no verbal counterpart in the language of the Old Testament, but it is obviously implied in the substance of the narrative.

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