Genesis 6:17 (WEB)
I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the earth will die.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Damascene
“In the time of Noah God washed away the sin of the world by water.” — editor's note: Gen. vi. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For when the word “spirit” is used, it is used sometimes of the spirit of a man, and of cattle, as it is written, that “all flesh which had in itself the spirit of life, died by the flood.”” — editor's note: Gen. vi. 17 and vii. 22.
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