Like the Scandinavian legend, it represents the antediluvians as giants, all of whom, save one, became exceedingly impious and depraved.
This is more than a metaphor; for a remnant of these antediluvians appear actually to have come down to us, with fire in their mouths and water in their brains, to disturb and perplex mankind with their whimsical outcries.
So the births and deaths of the antediluvians are connected by this same word and, throughout the fifth chapter of Genesis; while the interval, as we see from the narrative, was often eight or nine hundred years.
And from this we may understand that the antediluvians who are mentioned were not the first-born, but those through whom the order of the succeeding generations might be carried on to the patriarch Noah.
Puberty, was it later among the antediluvians than it is now?
We have already seen how the Deluge story and the fate of the antediluvians have interwoven themselves with the myths and superstitions of the Old World.
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 departedantediluvians and patriarchs understood its greatness.
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.
The Bible agrees with Plato in the statement that these Antediluvians had reached great populousness and wickedness, and that it was on account of their wickedness God resolved to destroy them.
It would be just as reasonable to assert that there would have been no Deluge had there been doctors to prevent it, as to say that the antediluvians owed their longevity to the lack of them.
In the Preface to Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy, in order to prove the usefulness of medical knowledge, quotes the example of the antediluvians who knew nothing of drugs, and yet some of whom lived to be nearly a thousand years old.
How does Mrs. Eddy know that the antediluvians would not have lived longer if they could also have had the services of trained and skilful physicians?
That Noah was a preacher of righteousness unto the wicked antediluvians is testified by scripture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antediluvians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
