5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, …
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. …
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-6)Men are apt to think that a reprieve is the forerunner of a pardon, and that if judgment be not speedily executed it is, or will be, certainly reversed. But the apostle tells us that how successful and prosperous soever false teachers may be, and that for a time, yet their judgment lingereth not . God has determined long ago how he will deal with them. Such unbelievers, who endeavour to turn other…
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