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.

516. Verse 21 And Enoch lived sixty-five years; and he beget Methuselah.

As has been stated, 'Enoch' means a seventh Church, and 'Methuselah' an eighth.