d. Whether the first world was wicked before Noah's birth; on what occasion its wickedness increased 19. * Noah the martyr of martyrs 20. * Why Lamech called his son Noah 21. e. How sin greatly increased in the days of Noah 22. * Why Noah remained unmarried so long, which was his greatest cross 23. f. When the wickedness of the old world began 24. * Concerning unchastity. (1) It is the foundation of all want and misery 24. (2) It is the spring of many other sins 25. (3) How to remedy it 25. (4) Whether bearing children is in itself to be reckoned as unchastity, and how far Moses denounces it 26. (5) Unchastity makes the bearing of children difficult 27. g. The reason the sons of God looked upon the daughters of men 28. h. Why the sin of the first world was not so terrible as the sin of the second 29-30. i. How the first world changed through the marriages of Adam and the other patriarchs 30-32. * The sons of God. (1) What is understood by them 32. (2) The rabbins' fables about the sons of God, how to refute them 33-34. * What is to be held concerning the "Incubis" and "Succubis" 34-35. (3) How the deluge came because of the sons of God 36. (4) To what end should the fall and punishment of the sons of God serve us 37-38. * Should the Romish church be called holy 37. * How the children of God became the children of the devil 38. * How Noah had to spend his life among a host of villains 39. * The conduct of the world when God sends it righteous servants 40. I. THE SINS OF THE PRIMEVAL WORLD IN GENERAL THE CAUSE OF ITS DESTRUCTION. 1. In the first five chapters Moses describes the state of the human race in the primeval world and the wonderful glory of the holy patriarchs who governed it. In these five chapters the chronicles as in the first book, so to speak, the happiest period of the whole human race and of the world before the flood. Now we shall begin what may be termed the second book of Genesis, containing the history of the flood. It shows the destruction of all the offspring of Cain and the eternal preservation of the generation of the righteous; for while everything perishes in the flood, the generation of the righteous is saved as an eternal world.