1 Peter 3:20 (WEB)
who before were disobedient when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Baptism
“The Church has seen in Noah's ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism, for by it "a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water":” — Catechism footnote: 1 Pet 3:20.
The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
“According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.” — Catechism footnote: St. Augustine, Serm. 96, 7, 9: PL 38, 588; St. Ambrose, De virg. 18, 118: PL 16, 297B; cf. already 1 Pet 3:20-21.
Fathers and councils · 20
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Further, they declare that the arrangement made with respect to the ark in the Deluge, by means of which eight persons were saved, most clearly indicates the Ogdoad which brings salvation.” — editor's note: Gen. vi. 18; 1 Pet. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“It was for this reason, too, that the Lord descended into the regions beneath the earth, preaching His advent there also, and [declaring] the remission of sins received by those who believe in Him.” — editor's note: [1 Pet. iii. 19, 20.]
Read the whole comment“…with them, and [acted as He did] in order that He might put a check upon the sins of these men, but [that at the same time] He might preserve the archetype, the formation of Adam.” — editor's note: This is Massuet’s conjectural emendation of the text, viz., archetypum for arcætypum. Grabe would insert per before arcæ, and he thinks the passage to have a…
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Jerome
“The ark, according to the Apostle Peter, was a type of the Church, in which eight souls were saved.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“All such efforts are only of use when they are made within the church’s pale; we must celebrate the passover in the one house, we must enter the ark with Noah, we must take refuge from the fall of Jericho with the justified harlot, Rahab.” — editor's note: 1 Peter iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“So too in the case of the ark which the apostle Peter interprets as a type of the church, Noah brings in for his three sons one wife apiece and not two.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Noah’s ark was a type of the Church, as the Apostle Peter says—“In Noah’s ark few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: which also after a true likeness doth now save us, even baptism.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Neither let me be deceived in them, nor deceive out of them.” — editor's note: Augustin is always careful to distinguish between the certain truths of faith and doctrine which all may know, and the mysteries of Scripture which all have…
Read the whole comment““This answer of a good conscience” did the Pharisees despise, and washed “that which was without;” within they continued full of pollution.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“So much did lying prevail before the flood, that after the flood only eight men remained.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20.
Read the whole comment“If I may recall far more ancient times, our patriarch Noah was certainly even before that great deluge, and I might not undeservedly call him a prophet, forasmuch as the ark he made, in which he escaped with his family, was itself a prophecy of our times.” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 7; 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.5Book II
“Whereunto also baptism by a like figure now saves you.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 18–21.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““In the ark,” says he, “of Noah, few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water, as also baptism shall in like manner save you.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“…can be baptized; and said, “In the ark of Noah, few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water; the like figure where-unto even baptism shall save you;” proving and attesting that the one ark of Noah was a type of the one Church.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
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John Chrysostom
“Thou wilt see the hiding places, and the dens of the robber, broken up now, and laid open, for even there also was our King present.” — editor's note: See 1 Pet. iii. 19, 20; iv. 6; St. Iren. iv. 45; iii. 23; iv. 39, 56, 66; v. 31; Orig. in Joan, t. ii. 30; contr. Cels. ii. 43; in Rom. lib. 5, l. t. iv. 551.…
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Tertullian
“Once more, “two (joined) into one flesh” undertake (the duty of) “growing and multiplying,”—Noah, (namely), and his wife, and their sons, in single marriage.” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. vii. 7 with 1 Pet. iii. 20 ad fin.
Read the whole comment“Now, that the very Lord Himself of all might, the Word and Spirit of the Father, was operating and preaching on earth, it was necessary that the portion of the Holy Spirit which, in the form of the prophetic gift, had been through John…” — editor's note: “It is most certain that the Son of God, the second Person of the Godhead, is in the writings of the fathers throughout called by the title of Spirit, Spirit…
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…the day began to be after the night; lest the years of Methuselah extend later than the date of the deluge, and consequently more than eight souls were saved; lest God hearing the cry of Sodom when the measure of its sins was full should come down as though ignorant of the cry to see if the measure of its sins was…” — editor's note: Methuselah’sage was a favourite problem with the early Church. See Aug. de Civ. Dei, xv. 13, and de pecc. orig. ii. 23, where it is said to be one of those…
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Clement of Alexandria
““Coming,” he says, “He preached to those who were once unbelieving.”” — editor's note: Ver. 20.
Read the whole comment“Do not [the Scriptures] show that the Lord preached the Gospel to those that perished in the flood, or rather had been chained, and to those kept “in ward and guard”?” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 19, 20.
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Cross-references · 18
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Cited together in The City of God XVIII.38.