not survived in Noah’s family, there would no longer have been a church on earth. For that reason the flood came. From the human race that had become so thoroughly sinful no continuation of humanity could occur, equipped to make God’s church flourish. Therefore, the current human race was wiped from the earth, and from the single remaining family of Noah, in which the fear of God was still maintained, a renewed human race arose. By contrast, after the flood it states the matter entirely differently: