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A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop

Anonymous

Section 4

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4. Let us now take the second character

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also

of

the

dove

sent

forth

from

the

ark

,

that

is

to

say

,

in

the

time

of

the

deluge

,

when

all

the

abysses

broke

forth

;

when

the

cataracts

of

heaven

were

opened

upon

the

earth

,

on

account

of

the

wickedness

of

men

which

they

daily

practised

before

the

Lord

;

as

said

Moses

,

“

And

the

Lord

God

saw

that

the

wickednesses

of

men

were

overflowing

upon

the

earth

,

and

that

all

of

them

were

remembering

for

evil

from

the

beginning

of

their

days

;

and

He

said

,

I

will

destroy

man

whom

I

have

made

from

off

the

face

of

the

earth

,

from

man

even

unto

cattle

,

and

from

the

creeping

thing

even

unto

the

fowls

of

the

air

.

”

Therefore

in

the

time

of

the

flood

the

dove

is

sent

forth

from

the

ark

,

when

the

waters

were

violently

rushing

with

all

their

force

upon

the

earth

.

Notes

15
Gen. vi. 5–7.