Flood in the tenth generation; Noah’s ark; Shem Ham Japheth
When the justice of God, to chastise the world, unleashed the flood, ten generations after the creation of the first human being, only one just man was found — Noah. (; 1 Pet 3:20) Because of his righteousness he was saved, and with him his wife and his three sons, and the three wives of his sons; they were shut up in the ark with all the animals that God had designated to Noah to bring in with him. (ark)
And as the destroying scourge had extended to all — to human beings and even to the animals that were upon the earth — the stock of these beings was preserved in the ark. The three sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, and Japheth, by whom the race was multiplied again; they were the stem of humankind after the flood. (Gen 9:18-19)
Greek
19. — Quand la justice de Dieu, pour cliätier le monde, dechaina le deluge, dix siecles apres la creation du premier homme, il nc se trouvait qu'un seul juste, Xoe. A cause de sa justice, il fut sauve, et avec lui sa femme et ses trois lils, ainsi que les trois femmes de ses fds; ils furent enfermes dans l'arche avec tous les animaux que Dieu avait designes ä Noe pour les y introduire avec lui. Et comme le lleau destrueteur s'eiait etendu ä tout, aux hommes et meme aux animaux qui etaient sur la terre, la source de ces etres fut conservee dans l'arche. Les trois fds de Noe etaient Sem, Cham et Japhet, par qui la race (humaine) se multiplia de nouveau; ils furent la souche des hommes apres le deluge.
About this text
Irenaeus’s short handbook of the apostolic preaching (Epideixis), preserved in Armenian. English here is a densified reading translation for study. Prior English exists (Robinson / Wilson) — this is not an Original English Translation.
English follows the Armenian of Patrologia Orientalis XII.5. Barthoulot’s French was used as a sense-check only. Robinson (1920) and Wilson’s prior English exist and were checked for independence — this page is densified English, not Original English Translation / no-previous-English.
Witnesses
- Copy-text PO XII.5 Epideixis (Armenian, Matenadaran M3710) (Armenian · §§1–10)
- Checked print Barthoulot French (PD) (French · §§1–10)
- Prior English Check Robinson 1920 / Wilson English (English · full work (prior complete English exists))
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.