Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 6:22

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 3, page 307, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises

Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin (HTML)

On the Catechising of the Uninstructed. (HTML)

Of the Six Ages of the World. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1464 (In-Text, Margin)

39. “Five ages of the world, accordingly, having been now completed (there has entered the sixth). Of these ages the first is from the beginning of the human race, that is, from Adam, who was the first man that was made, down to Noah, who constructed the ark at the time of the flood.[Genesis 6:22] Then the second extends from that period on to Abraham, who was called the father indeed of all nations which should follow the example of his faith, but who at the same time in the way of natural descent from his own flesh was the father of the destined people of the Jews; which people, previous to the entrance of the Gentiles into the Christian faith, ...