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.

Enoch (Genesis 5:18) represents the seventh church from Adam, and which consisted of people who had framed doctrines out of the things which had been objects of perception in the most ancient and the following churches, with design that such doctrine should serve as a rule whereby to know what was good and true; which is signified by these words: ver. 22, "Enoch walked with God." And by the translation of Enoch, in verse 24, is signified that as such doctrine at that time was not allowable, it was preserved for the use of posterity.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 513, 516)