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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Bede
He said to Noah: The end of all flesh has come before me; the earth is filled with iniquity because of them, and I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of smoothed wood, etc. The diverse form in the construction of the ark and the imminent flood contains a mystery. First, as the Lord himself showed by the sudden inundation of the flood, the unexpected hour of the last judgment is signified: "And as it was, he says, in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. …
Gregory of Elvira
If we should desire to examine with diligent care and careful attention the construction of that ark, through which the righteous man Noah merited to be saved from the shipwreck of the world, undoubtedly we shall find a great sacrament of spiritual grace arranged in its very measures and conjunctions. Thus, this construction of the ark clearly revealed a type of our Church. …
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