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Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

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They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?(A) Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”(B) But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word(C) the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.(D) By these waters also the world of that time(E) was deluged and destroyed.(F)

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