AELW2:13
"3. Then the Lord said: My Spirit shall not continually judge in man, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Here Moses begins to describe Noah himself as a supreme pontiff and priest or, as Peter calls him, a “herald of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5). But this text has been abused in various ways, for it is impossible for natural man to understand these spiritual matters. Accordingly, when interpreters with unwashed feet and hands leap into the Holy Scriptures and bring with them their human inclination and, as they themselves express it, “let reason rule,” they inevitably fall into all kinds of errors. Besides, it usually happens that the more excellent and the more spiritual the texts are, the more execrably they are perverted. Thus they have abused this text in such a variety of ways that if you follow the interpreters, you do not know what to believe."
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