Genesis 6:22
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fecit igitur Noë omnia quæ præceperat illi Deus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐποίησεν Νῶε πάντα ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ Κύριος ὁ θεός, οὕτως ἐποίησεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֖עַשׂ נֹ֑חַ כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֥ה אֹת֛וֹ אֱלֹהִ֖ים כֵּ֥ן עָשָֽׂה
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On the Catechising of the Uninstructed, Of the Six Ages of the World
39. “Five ages of the world, accordingly, having been now completed (there has entered the sixth). Of these ages the first is from the beginning of the human race, that is, from Adam, who was the first man that was made, down to Noah, who constructed the ark at the time of the flood. Then the second extends from that period on to Abraham, who was called the father indeed of all nations which should follow the example of his faith, but who at the same time in the way of natural descent from his own flesh was the father of the destined people of the Jews; which people, previous to the entrance of the Gentiles into the Christian faith, was the one people among all the nations of all lands that worshipped the one true God: from which people also Christ the Saviour was decreed to come according to the flesh. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).