785. Genesis 7:17-18. And the flood was forty days on the earth, and the waters grew and lifted the ark and it rose off the earth. And the water strengthened and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the water.
Forty days symbolizes the length of time the church called Noah lasted. The flood symbolizes the false ideas that still swamped them. The waters grew and lifted the ark and it rose off the earth means that this is how they wavered. The water strengthened and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the face of the water means that this is how their wavering intensified.
