Christ and His apostles, without any fraud, deception, or hypocrisy, preached that one God, the Father, was the founder of all things. They did not accommodate their doctrine to the prepossessions of their hearers. 1. Since, therefore, the tradition from the apostles does thus exist in the Church, and is permanent among us, let us revert to the Scriptural proof furnished by tho…

Chapter 1.—Whether, After the Deluge, from Noah to Abraham, Any Families Can Be Found Who Lived According to God. It is difficult to discover from Scripture, whether, after the deluge, traces of the holy city are continuous, or are so interrupted by intervening seasons of godlessness, that not a single worshipper of the one true God was found among men; because from Noah, who, …

And God blessed Noah and his sons. The covenant with Noah is a renewal of the original blessing given to Adam. The prohibition of blood points to the sacredness of life. The rainbow is the sign of the covenant — not that it had not existed before, but that God now appointed it as a pledge of his faithfulness. Noah's drunkenness shows that even the most holy men may fall into gr…