For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight;

For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

and he delivered righteous Lot who was worn out by the lascivious life of the wicked

He was, however, rebuked for his own transgression; a dumb ass spoke with a man's voice, and stopped the madness of the prophet.

and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."

and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed by a deluge of water.