What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,
who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.
they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.