But he that lacketh these things is blind and gropeth for the way with his hand, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

but was rebuked of his iniquity. The tame and dumb beast, speaking with man's voice forbade the foolishness of the prophet.

It is happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed, is returned to her wallowing in the mire."

This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God:

by the which things the world that then was perished, overflowen with the water.