used in living persons; why should not “spirits” also? Noah preached to their ears, but Christ in spirit, to their spirits, or spiritual natures. saved by water. The same water which drowned the unbelieving buoyed up the ark in which the eight were saved. Others, ‘were brought safe through the water’ [di’hudatos]. The sense may be as in 1 Cor. 3:15, ‘they were safely preserved though having to be in the water’ (cf. dia with genitive, ‘spite of,’ Rom. 2:27). 21. whereunto. ABC, Vulgate, read [ὅ
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