The Ark and the Transition from Trial
He who has departed above through goodness sees evil having reached its end, having passed through the covering that comes from trials and having happened above these things. And the ceasing at the seventh and tenth signifies stability; for the number is square and a cube. Genesis 7:15–16. And the Lord God said: 'Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and the wives of your sons,' and the following. We noted before that at the beginning of the flood it was said harmoniously, 'Enter into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and the wives of your sons with you' (Gen 7:7), but now, 'Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and the wives of your sons.'
For it was necessary then, while all men were perishing, in a certain way not to let them be occupied with those following marriages, but now he is commanded to go out familiarly with his wife and the sons with their own; for it was going to be the beginning of... to become. And appropriately, while he himself hears the command to go out, he stands as advocate for leading out the animals, as their king and master having been appointed by God. And the saying is observed that 'all' went out,
Greek
Ὁ ἄνω χωρήσας διὰ καλοκαγαθίαν ὁρᾷ τὴν κακίαν τέλος λαβοῦσαν, περιελὼν τὸ κάλυμμα τὸ ἐκ πειρασμῶν συμβαῖνον καὶ τούτων ἀνω[τέρ]ω γεγονώς. Τὸ δὲ ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι πεπαῦσθαι [τὴν] βεβαιό[τ]ητα σημαίνει· τετράγωνος γὰρ ὁ ἀριθμὸς καὶ κύβος. ῃιιι, 15–16. Καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος ὁ Θεός· Ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ σὺ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τῶν υἱῶν σου, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Ἐπεσημηνάμεθα πρὸ τ[ού]του ὅτι ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ κατα- κλυσμοῦ ἁρμόνιον ἦν λεχθῆναι "6Εἴσελ[θε] εἰς τὴν κιβωτὸν σὺ καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ ἡ γυνή σου καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τῶ[ν] υἱῶν σου μετὰ σοῦ"6, νῦν δέ "6Ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ σὺ καὶ ἡ γυνή σου καὶ οἱ υἱοί σου καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τῶν 198 υἱῶν σου"6. Ἔδει γὰρ τότε μέν, ἅτε πάντων ἀνθρώπων φθειρομένων, τρόπον τινὰ μὴ ἐντρυφᾶν αὐτοὺς τοῖς γάμοις ἀκολάζοντας, νῦν οἰκείως μετὰ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτὸς ἐξελθεῖν κε̣λεύεται καὶ μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων οἱ υἱοί· ἀρχὴ γὰρ ἔμελλον τῆς ··· ··· ··· {ἔσεσθαι} γενέσθαι. Πρεπόντως δὲ αὐτὸς μὲν ἀκούει ἐξελθεῖν, περὶ τῶν ζῴων ἐξαγαγεῖν προστάτ- τεται ὡς βασιλεὺς αὐτῶν καὶ δεσπότης πρὸς Θεοῦ χειρο- τονηθείς. Παρατηρεῖται δὲ τὸ λόγιον ὅτι "6πάντα"6 ἐξῆλθε,
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Didymus the Blind reads the creation account verse by verse, finding Christ and the Spirit in Genesis.
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