Introduction.

...wickedness and corruption: For no sooner had our first Parents Adam and Eve. fallen and their punishment been set before them, than Gen. 3:15. alongside it immediately came a merciful promise of redemption: I will put enmity between your seed and her seed, and that same [seed] shall crush your head. In such a way that, being nourished and awakened by this hope, they attributed this same promise to the first Son Gen. 4:1. they obtained: Eve saying, I have obtained the man from the Lord, although it was not this one, and it turned out entirely differently for him Referring to Cain, who murdered his brother rather than being the promised savior.; indeed, it applied much more to the other, namely Abel, presenting an Image of the future Shepherd, who would be killed through the envy of his brothers, just as it indeed came to pass.

Gen. 6:2. Meanwhile, the world fell more and more into sins and injustices, and it seemed as if God withdrew His hand and had entirely forgotten to put His holy purpose into effect; the wantonness and wickedness of the flesh increased, and the Human race was as if clouded over by a mist of sins: Yet in the midst of this Year of the World 987. original: "Anno. Mandi. ofte 't jaer der werelds" darkness, God showed an example of faith, and a living expression that He had prepared a Heavenly dwelling for His own, when He took away from the earth the pious Enoch, which could provide great comfort to upright hearts: Meanwhile, seeing the evil still increasing, they were constantly waiting for a redeemer, comforter, and savior, whom they looked forward to with Year 1056. great longing: Lamech, the son of Methuselah, when he had seen the world in its corruption for one hundred and eighty-two years and was obtaining a Son, spoke: This one shall comfort us in Gen. 5:29. our toil and labor upon the earth, which the Lord has cursed, naming him Noah The name Noah is related to the Hebrew word for "rest" or "comfort." for that reason. Yet he was not the one who was to come, but just as the stars in the Heavens give testimony of a gre—