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BVt whereas God said: Their dayes shall be a hundred and twenty yeares, wee must not take it as though that it were a forewarning, that (a) none after that should 〈◊〉〈◊〉 aboue that time, for many after the deluge liued fiue hundred yeares. But it
〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vnderstood that God spake this about the end of Noahs fiue hundred 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that is when he was foure hundred and foure score yeares old, which the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ordinarily calleth fiue hundred taking the greatest part for the whole: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the sixe hundred yeare of Noah, and the second month, the floud be∣•…•… •…•…o the hundred and twenty yeares were passed, at the end of which man∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bee vnuersally destroyed by the deluge. Nor is it frute•…•…esse to be∣•…•… •…•…e deluge came thus, when there were none left on earth, that were 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of such a death: not that a good man dying such a death should be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 worse for it after it is past. But of all those of Seths progeny whome •…•…he 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nameth, there was not one that died by the deluge. This floud the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 saith grew vpon this: The Lord saw that the wickednesse of man was great * 1.1 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and all the imaginations of his heart were onely and continually euill: and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ued in his heart how he had made man in the earth, and sayd: I will aestroy 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the earth the man whome I haue made, from man to beast, and, from the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 things to the fowles of the ayre, for I am angry that I haue made them.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 (a) none.] This Lactantius held. lib. 2. His words are these. The earth being dried, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ing the iniquity of the former world, least their length of life should bee the mid wife 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉, hee shortned the daies of man by degrees, vntill they came to a hundred and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 there •…•…e fi•…•… his bound: not to be ouerpassed. But Hierome goeth with Augus∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shall yet haue a hundred and twenty yeares to repent in, not, tha•…•… th•…•… life o•…•… no 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shall not exceed a hundred and twenty yeares, as many erroneously vnderstand 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that Abraham, after the deluge, liued a hundred three-score and fifteene yeares; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hundred: nay some aboue three hundred yeares. Iosephus differs some-what 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but not much: for hee sayth that after the floud mens dayes grew fewer, vn∣•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him the bound of mans life was set vp at a hundred and twenty 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 decree, and according to the number also that Moyses liued. (b) Reuolued.] 〈◊〉〈◊〉, but the seauenty haue 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 recogitauit: he reuolued in his thought.
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