800. 'All flesh that creeps over the earth breathed its last' means that those who belonged to the final descendants of the Most Ancient Church were annihilated. This is clear from what follows, where they are described in respect to their persuasions and their desires. Here they are first of all called 'flesh that creeps over the earth', for the reason that they were become utterly sensory-minded and bodily-minded. As already stated, sensory and bodily things were likened by the most ancient people to 'creeping things'. Consequently when the phrase 'flesh that creeps over the earth' is used, the kind of person who has become wholly sensory-minded and bodily-minded is meant. That 'flesh' means all mankind in general and a bodily-minded person in particular has been stated and shown already.