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L. VIVES.
THe (a) length [The same also hee hath against Faustus lib. 12. Ambrose also compares Noahs Arke, to mans body, but in another manner. Lib. de Noe et Arca. (b) Were types] * 1.1 The Apostle Peter taketh the Arke for a figure of the Church. 2. Pet 3. 56. Where H•…•…rome •…•…eth the Arke to be the Church, Contra Iouin. & contra Luciferianos Cyprian doth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…so. De spiritu sancto, (if that worke bee his.) Origen also and many others say much of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Allegorie. (c) Lowest second] The Arke was thus built (saith Origen.) It was diuided in∣•…•…o •…•…o lower roomes, and ouer these were three other roomes, each one immediatly aboue o•…•…. The lowest was the sinke or common Iakes: and that next it was the graner, or place where meate was kept for all the creatures: then in the first of the other three, were the wilde be•…•…s kept, in the second the tamer, and in the third were the men themselues. Iosephus writes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of foure roomes, whereas all else make fiue. But hee might perchance omitt the Iakes, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 de Natalibus saith. (d) Iewes and] He distinguisheth them by their tongues: for Paul co•…•…rsed with none but they spoake either Hebrew or Greeke: for at Rome they spoake 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as commonly then as we doe Latine at this day.