Which sometime were disobedient; when they were alive on the earth, and Christ, by Noah, preached to them during the building of the ark.

Wherein; in the ark.

Eight souls; Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives. Genesis 7:7

Were saved; through believing and obeying God, preparing an ark and entering into it.

By water; by the instrumentality of water. The water which destroyed the wicked bore up the ark and floated it in safety.

The idea that the apostle Peter, or any other writer of the holy Scriptures, teaches that there is such a place or state as purgatory, is false and pernicious.

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