1257. And from these the nations on the earth after the Flood were spread abroad.

'From these the nations on the earth were spread abroad' means that in these all the forms of that Church's worship took rise - all forms that entailed goods and those that entailed evils, such goods or evils being meant by 'the nations', and the Church by 'the earth'. 'After the Flood' means from the start of the Ancient Church.