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Let what is said be such [as this]. All the numbers within the decad being doubled [or t]ripl[ed e]xcept for seven both beget and [are begotten], f[or exam]ple, the one begets the two, and the two the fou[r], [thus begotten] by the one, and the four the eight, be[gotten] [itself also] by the two, and the five the ten, and the six, though some[time begotten], does not beget, but the seven is neither b[egotten] by the preceding ones n[or] begets any after itself up to the decad; but also the two begets the six and the three the nine, being tripled. And it has [another] prerogative: for if you multi[ply] the numbers from the monad up to seven in a double ratio, it becomes at once equal and a squ[are]; for one, two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, being [dou]bled, the sixty-four, which [i]s a square, for eight times eight is sixty-four, and a cube, fo[r four] times four times four is sixty-four. But also being tripled up to seven again from the monad, it produces t[he] se[ven hundred twe]nty-n[ine], it too being at once a square [and] a cube; [for] one, [three], nine, twenty-seven, eighty-one, t[wo hundred f[or]ty-th]ree, seven hundred twenty-nine, as has been said, completes at once a c[ube and a squa]re, a square thus: [twenty-se]ven tim[es twenty-sev]en is seven hundred twenty-nine, a cube thus: n[ine] times n[ine] times [nine] is seven hundred twenty-nine; the squ[are] signifies stability, but the cube *** Therefore, what has been sai[d] about the numbers might not [unlikely] be [confi]rmed by the fact that noth[ing id]le is contained in the divine scriptures. And it is fitting to add to th[ose] things that have been said that a living spark was [prope]rly [le]ft behind in the ark, so that, another beginning co[mi]ng to be, a heresy as i[f about two c]reators might not be introduced. For if, even with so much safety ha[ving been m]ade, the heretics invent arguments, intro[ducing] different deities, how much more if they also found plausible arguments 185 for their own evil hypothesis. ῃιι, 4. For yet seven days I will bring rain upon the earth for fo[rt]y days and for[ty] nights; and I will blot out [every] li[ving] thing that I have made from the face of the earth. And [this] was foretold by the philanthropy of God for correc[tion ... ...] [for] hearing about the flood that would [be] after seven days, just as we also set forth in the preceding [books the preaching according to] Jonah, which itself also happened for the repentance [of the Ni]nevites, as indeed happened. For forty [day]s and forty nights a [downpo]ur from above and below happened so, that it surpassed the mountains by [fifte]en cu[bits]. And if the number according to which the fl[ood hap]pened also has a meaning, consider how "I will blot out ev[ery] li[ving thi]ng, that I have made upon the earth". Some, having understood that of the [resur]rection [...], thought that this world subsists a[nd com]es to be from a previous wo[rld] that was consumed by fire [accor]ding to the Stoics, the [sa]me things existing in the matter from t[his] world, [un]changed with respect to this one. And this they ext[emporize]d in [the] proof of their dogmas; for it is not possible for [the] movements of souls to happen [unchan]geably of the one that [has bee]n [and] of the one that is to come, so as to diff[er] in nothing. ῃιι, 5. A[nd] Noah [di]d all that [the Lord G]od commanded him. That [this] is a testimony for a man, to do all that the Lord [God] co[mmande]d, has also been said in the preceding books. Of s[uch] approval was deemed worthy also the blessed David, concerning whom [G]od said he found "David the son of Jesse, a man after [my] own heart, [who] will do all my will". 186 ῃιι, 6. [And Noah was] six hundred [yea]rs old, and the flood of water c[ame upon t]he earth. [... ...] the goodness of God, how he allowed [the ark] to be built in one hundred whole ye[ar]s; for this is clear from [his being five] hundred years old when Noah began to ma[ke] it [... ... ...], it was wisely done by the one who established all things, so that [seeing] the strangeness of the

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ᾖ τὸ λεγόμενον τοιο̣[ῦ- το]ν̣. Πάντες οι῾̣ ἐντὸς δεκάδος ἀριθμοὶ διπλασιαζόμε[νοι 184 ἢ τ]ριπλασ[ιαζόμενοι π]λὴν τοῦ ἑπτὰ καὶ γεννῶσιν καὶ γεν[νῶνται, ο]ἷον ὁ εἷς γεννᾷ τὸν δύο, καὶ ὁ δύο τὸν τέσσε[ρα] οὕτ[ως γεννη]θεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἑνός, καὶ ὁ τέσσερα τὸν ὀκτὼ γεν[νη]θεὶς [καὶ αὐτὸς] ὑπὸ τῶν δύο, ὁ δὲ πέντε τὸν δέκα, καὶ ὁ ἓξ δέ ποτ[ε γεννώμεν]ος οὐ γεννῶν, ὁ δὲ ἑπτὰ οὔτε ὑπὸ τῶν φθασάντων γ[εννᾶται οὔ]τε τινὰ μεθ' ἑαυτὸν ἕως δεκάδος γεννᾷ· ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ δύο τὸν ἓξ καὶ ὁ τρία τὸν ἐννέα τριπλασιαζόμενοι γεννῶσιν. Ἔχει δὲ κα[ὶ ἕτερόν] τι προνόμιον· ἐὰν γὰρ ἐν διπλασίονι λόγῳ πολυπλασιά[ζῃς το]ὺς ἀπὸ μονάδος ἀριθμοὺς ἕως ἑπτά, ἴσος ἅμα καὶ τετράγ[ωνος] γίνεται· εἷς γάρ, δύο, τέσσερα, ὀκτώ, δέκα ἕξ, τριάκοντα δύο, [διπ]λασιασθέντα τὸν ἑξήκοντα τέσσερα, ὅστις τετράγωνος [μέν ἐ]στιν, ὀκτὰ γὰρ ὀκτὼ ἑξήκοντα τέσσερα, κύβος δέ, τέτρα γ[ὰρ τέ]σσερα τέτρα ἑξήκοντα τέσσερα. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τριπλα- σιαζόμ[ενοι] ἕως ἑπτὰ πάλιν ἀπὸ μονάδος ἀποτελεῖ τ[ὸν] ε῾̣π̣τ̣α̣κόσια ε[ἴκοσι ἐνν]έα καὶ αὐτὸν ὄντα τετράγωνον ἅμα κ[αὶ] κύβον· εἷς [γάρ, τρία], ἐννέα, εἴκοσι ἑπτά, ὀγδοήκοντα εἷς, δ[ιακόσια τ[εσσε[ράκοντα τρ]ία, ἑπτα- κόσια εἴκοσι ἐννέα, ὡς εἴρηται, κ̣[ύβον] ἅμα κ[αὶ τετρά- γων]ον συμπληροῖ, τετράγωνον μὲν οὕτως· [ἑπτὰ εἰ]- κοσάκ[ις εἴκοσι ἑπ]τὰ ἑπτακόσια εἴκοσι ἐννέα, κύβον οὕτως· ε᾿̣[ννεά]κις ἐνν[έα ἐννεά]κις ἑπτακόσια εἴκοσι ἐννέα· σημαίνει μ[ὲν] τὸ τετρ[άγωνον] βεβαιότητα, ὁ δὲ κύβος *** Οὐκ ἀπεικ[ότως] οὖν ἂν εἴη τὰ περὶ τῶν ἀριθμῶν εἰρημέ[να] τῷ μηδὲ[ν ἀρ]γὸν ἐγκεῖσθαι τοῖς θείοις γράμμασιν πεπιστω̣[μέ][ν]ως. Κἀκείν[οις τοῖ]ς εἰρημένοις προσθεῖναι προσήκει ὅτι δεόντ[ως] ζώπυρον κ[αταλ]έλειπται ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ, ἵνα μή, ἄλλης ἀρχῆς γινο[μέ]νης, ὡς περ[ὶ δύο δ]ημ̣ιουργῶν αἵρεσις εἰσαχθῇ. Εἰ γάρ, καὶ τοσαύτης ἀσφαλείας π[εποι]ημένης, εὑρησιλογοῦσιν οἱ αἱρετικοὶ διαφόρους εἰσά- γον[τες] θεότητας, πόσῳ πλέον εἰ καὶ λόγους πιθανοὺς 185 πρὸς τὴν αὐτῶν κακὴν ὑπόθεσιν ηὕρισκον. ῃιι, 4. Ἔτι γὰρ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ ἐπάγω ὑετὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν τε[σσεράκοντ]α̣ ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσερ[ά]κοντα νύκτας· καὶ ἐξαλείψω [πᾶσαν τὴ]ν ἀν[άσ]τασιν, ἣν ἐποίησα ἀπὸ προσ- ώπου τῆς γῆς. Καὶ [τοῦ]το φιλανθρωπίᾳ Θεοῦ προείρηται ἐπὶ διορ- θώσε̣[ι ··· ·]ον τ[ῷ] ἀκούσεσθαι περὶ τοῦ μετὰ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἔσεσ[θαι κα]τακλυσμόν, καθὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖς φθάσασιν παρεθέμεθ[α τὸ κατὰ] τὸν Ἰωνᾶν κήρυγμα, ὃ καὶ αὐτὸ ἐπὶ μετανοίᾳ γέγονεν [τῶν Νι]νευειτῶν, καθὼς καὶ συμβέ- βηκεν. Τεσσεράκοντα δὲ η῾̣[μερῶ]ν̣ καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νυκτῶν ἄνωθεν καὶ κάτωθεν ἐπ[ομβρί]α γεγένηται οὕτως, ὥστε ὑπερβαλέσθαι τὰ ὄρη πή[χεις πε]ντε[κα]ίδεκα. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ὁ ἀριθμὸς καθ' ὃν ὁ κατακλυσμ[ὸς γέγ]ονεν ἔχει λόγον, συνεπίσκεψαι ὅπως "6ἐξαλείψω πᾶσ[αν τὴ]ν ἀνά[στασι]ν, ἣν ἐποίησα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς"6. Τινὲς τὸ τῆς [ἀνασ]τάσεως ·[···]· ἐξειληφότες ᾠήθησαν ἐκ προτέρου κό[σμου] πυρωθέντος [κατ]ὰ τοὺς Στωϊκοὺς τοῦτον ὑφιστάναι κα[ὶ γενέ]σθαι, τῶν [αὐ]τῶν ἐνυπαρχόντων ἐν τῇ ὕλῃ τῇ ἀπὸ τ[οῦδε κ]όσμου [ἀ]παραλλάκτου πρὸς τοῦτον. Τοῦτο δὲ ἐσχε̣[δίασα]ν ἐν[τῇ τ]ῶν δογμάτων ἀποδείξει· οὐ γὰρ οἷόν τε [ἀπαραλλ]άκτως [τὰ κ]ινήματα τῶν ψυχῶν συμβῆναι τοῦ γε[γενημ]ένου [καὶ] τοῦ μέλλοντος, ὥστε ἐν μηδενὶ διαλλά[ττειν]. ῃιι, 5. Κα[ὶ ἐπ]οίησεν Νῶε πάντα ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ [Κύριος ὁ Θ]εός. Ὅτι̣ [αὕ]τη ἀνθρώπῳ μαρτυρία ἐστὶν τὸ πάντα ἃ ἐνε[τείλατ]ο Κύριος ὁ [Θεὸς] ποιῆσαι, καὶ ἐν τοῖς προλα- βοῦσιν εἴρηται. Το[ιαύτ]ης ἀποδοχῆς ἠξιώθη καὶ ὁ μακά- ριος ∆αυίδ, περὶ οὗ εἶπε[ν ὁ Θ]εὸς εὑρεῖν "6∆αυὶδ τὸν τοῦ Ἰεσσαὶ ἄνδρα κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν [μου, ὃ]ς ποιήσει πάντα τὰ θελήματά μου"6. 186 ῃιι, 6. [Νῶε δὲ ἦν ἐτ]ῶν ἑξακοσίων, καὶ ὁ κατακλυσμὸς τοῦ ὕδατος ἐ[γένετο ἐπὶ τ]ῆς γῆς. [·]·μ[··· ··· · τ]ὴν ἀγαθότητα τοῦ Θεοῦ, πῶς ἐν ἑκατὸν ὅλοις ἔ[τ]εσιν [τὴν κιβω]τὸν γίνεσθαι συνεχώρησεν· δῆλον γὰρ τοῦτο ἐκ [τοῦ πεντα]κοσίων ἐτῶν εἶναι ὅτε ἤρξατο αὐτὴν ὁ Νῶε π̣οι [··· ··· ··] ἐγίνετο σοφῶς πρὸς τοῦ τὰ ὅλα συστησαμένου, ἵν̣α [βλέψαν]τες τὸ ξένον τοῦ