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1 Peter 3:20

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, by which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

But (in vain): for they who had originated those of the former seed sent into the ark (secretly and stealthily, and unknown to that Mother-Virtue), together with those "eight souls". Once more, "two (joined) into one flesh "undertake (the duty of) "growing and multiplying"-Noah, (namely), and his wife, and their sons, in single marriage.

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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20