The Primitive Freemasonry of the antediluvians is a term for which we are indebted to Oliver, although the theory was broached by earlier writers, and among them by the Chevalier Ramsay. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
"Christ should show," literally, "announce light to the Gentiles") and preached unto the spirits in prison, that is, the antediluvians, whose bodies indeed seemed free, but their spirits were in prison, shut up in the earth as one great condemned cell (exactly parallel to Isa 24: 22, 23 ❋ Unknown (1871)
The antediluvians are on the run and running should be the word. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Many of the righteous would rather dismiss the naysayers as antediluvians who can barely keep their white sheets pressed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We who lived before railways are antediluvians — we must pass away. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Britain before the birth of Noah; and the traveller may consequently handle fish which swam, and fruit which grew, in the days of the antediluvians, all now converted into sound stone, by the petrifying qualities of the soil in which they are imbedded. ❋ Various (N/A)
These dear, good people are quite out of the world -- they are antediluvians. ❋ Charles Garvice (N/A)
Josephus says that the antediluvians were well acquainted with astrology, and inscribed the principles thereof on pillars to preserve them to posterity from the Flood; for it was by this art, he believes, that they were enabled to foresee the coming Deluge. ❋ James Grant (N/A)
For while one of those documents (J), as we have seen, uses the word Jehovah without scruple throughout the whole of Genesis, and regards that name as known not only to Abraham, xv. 7, but even to the antediluvians, iv. 26, the other regularly uses Elohim. ❋ John Edgar McFadyen (N/A)
The antediluvians stand condemned because they were willingly ignorant of the Providential tokens and signs of the times. ❋ Joseph Wild (N/A)
The antediluvians plowed with a forked stick, with one prong for the beam and the other for the scratcher; and the plow boy and his sleepy ox had no choice of prongs to hitch to. ❋ Robert L. Taylor (N/A)
This agrees with what is said by St. Peter, respecting the antediluvians. ❋ Andrew Lee (N/A)
It would seem to imply that Christ in the spirit carried a special message to the antediluvians who had been disobedient and had perished in the Flood. ❋ James Dodds (N/A)
"Don't know any more about it than about the antediluvians." ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
How can you expect those antediluvians to be anything but tough? ❋ Various (N/A)
Instead of preaching about Babylon and Belshazzar, and pouring out his eloquence upon the antediluvians and the glorious company in heaven, he aims every word right at us, and gets so earnest about our daily sins that he really makes one's heart ache. ❋ George Sumner Weaver (N/A)
Even angels did not fully know the work of grace and salvation which Christ accomplished for man, and it is not likely that the spirits of departed antediluvians and patriarchs understood its greatness. ❋ James Dodds (N/A)
On turning back, while on the steps, the children could see that, besides their own party, the train had contained a number of other strange animals, some of whom, the Archæopteryx whispered, impressively, were "antediluvians." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Since we have no means of knowing who was the one that penned the document, we are hardly safe in following Whitelaw, when he ascribes the writing to antediluvians and so arrives at conclusions concerning the culture and the degree of advancement of these early peoples. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
A measure of the truth had been available for these antediluvians. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
