Arcana Coelestia # 535
535. The Church called Noah must not be reckoned among the Churches that came before the Flood. This becomes clear from verse 29, which says that that Church 'would comfort them from their work and from the toil of their hands that came from the ground which Jehovah had cursed'. The comfort was that it would live on and endure. Noah and his sons however will in the Lord's Divine mercy be dealt with later on.
Genesis 3:18
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thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;