antediluvians

The Primitive Freemasonry of the antediluvians is a term for which we are indebted to Oliver, although the theory was broached by earlier writers, and among them by the Chevalier Ramsay.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

"Christ should show," literally, "announce light to the Gentiles") and preached unto the spirits in prison, that is, the antediluvians, whose bodies indeed seemed free, but their spirits were in prison, shut up in the earth as one great condemned cell (exactly parallel to Isa 24: 22, 23

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The antediluvians are on the run and running should be the word.

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Many of the righteous would rather dismiss the naysayers as antediluvians who can barely keep their white sheets pressed.

'CAN WE GET ALONG?' 2008

We who lived before railways are antediluvians — we must pass away.

Roundabout Papers 2006

It would seem to imply that Christ in the spirit carried a special message to the antediluvians who had been disobedient and had perished in the Flood.

Exposition of the Apostles Creed James Dodds

Josephus says that the antediluvians were well acquainted with astrology, and inscribed the principles thereof on pillars to preserve them to posterity from the Flood; for it was by this art, he believes, that they were enabled to foresee the coming Deluge.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

For while one of those documents (J), as we have seen, uses the word Jehovah without scruple throughout the whole of Genesis, and regards that name as known not only to Abraham, xv. 7, but even to the antediluvians, iv. 26, the other regularly uses Elohim.

Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

"Don't know any more about it than about the antediluvians."

The American Baron James De Mille

Even angels did not fully know the work of grace and salvation which Christ accomplished for man, and it is not likely that the spirits of departed antediluvians and patriarchs understood its greatness.

Exposition of the Apostles Creed James Dodds