The Old Ark Story

Augustine writes that lustful angels and their giant offspring indeed did once run rampant over the earth, prompting the biblical flood. The old flood story had allowed ancient Jewish writers to prophesy the coming of Jesus and Christians as Noah's ark was a symbol of the church which is saved. This next book begins by tracing the racial differences of the species through the sons of Noah. Two of these sons, Shem and Japheth, were good, but the middle son, Ham, who saw his father drunk and naked in the Bible, was evil, and so his descendants were too.