“Ice is made by the breath of God,
And the expanse of the waters is frozen.

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

And this is the writing which was inscribed, M'ne, M'ne, T'kel, u-Pharsin.

Pharsin; Thy kingdom was divided, and it shall be given to the Medes and to Persia.

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --

It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows upon faith.

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.