But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

and spared not the old world, but saved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that of old by the word of God there were heavens, and an earth formed out of the water and by the water,