DISCOURSE 16. The inexhaustible richness of the Scriptures and the blessedness of the primordial ones. The malice and cunning of the devil, who chose the serpent as a weapon to tempt his wife. The deception of the woman through the serpent and the violation of the divine commandment by the primordial ones. The knowledge of good and evil among the first-created was even before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the reason for such a name of the tree. Moisture from the tree of the cross.

DISCOURSE 17. God's love for mankind for the fallen ancestors and the awakening in them of the consciousness of the sin committed. The action of conscience in the soul of the ancestors and the internal consequences of sin; the direct divine judgment of the fallen, husband and wife, and the condemnation of the serpent, with the proclamation of his utter defeat by the seed of the woman; punishment for wife and husband, full of justice and care for a person.

DISCOURSE 18. In view of the fall of the primordial ones, the listeners are encouraged to be vigilant over themselves; the actions of divine care for the condemned. A lesson given to us by the leather garments of the primordial ones. Divine truth and mercy in the expulsion of the primordial from paradise and their settlement directly in paradise. The beginning of marriage and the primordial virginity. Eve's Good Sense at the Birth of Cain and the Sacrifice of Adam's First Sons. God's goodness to Cain after the rejection of his sacrifice and the moral lesson that follows from this.

DISCOURSE 19. Heavy slavery to sin and the free cry of man. Cain's incorrigibility and his terrible crime. God's immeasurable goodness to the fratricide, and his impenitence. Cain's Divine Punishment and Later Repentance. The threat of the sevenfold punishment of the murderer Cain and hence the moral lesson.

DISCOURSE 20. Repetition of the main ideas of the previous conversation. The place of Cain's settlement and the genealogy of his descendants. The words of Cainite Lamech to his wives and the repentance of sin expressed in them by the prompting of conscience; moral lesson from this. The story of the birth of Seth and Enos. A call to progress in virtue and especially to almsgiving.

DISCOURSE 21. It is necessary to delve into the Divine Scriptures with all diligence, invoking the grace of the Holy Spirit. Spirit. The new genealogy of Adam through Seth, about the omission of another generation, and the meaning of it. The good qualities of Seth and the thoughts of Eve at his birth. The meaning of names given to children. Enoch's godliness and the lesson he gives to husbands and wives. Further genealogy of the Setites and the prophecy of Lamech at the birth of Noah. Exhortation to the care of the soul and its adornment.

DISCOURSE 22. Righteous Noah and the greatness of his virtues in the midst of universal impiety. Man's free will in the choice of good and evil. The sons of God, who gave birth to the daughters of men, are not angels, but the descendants of Seth and Enos; The consequence of this mixing of the Sethites with the Cainites is a divine threat. To the increase of wickedness, the divine sentence of the destruction of men along with animals, and the salvation of Noah. An exhortation to virtue, as the most precious and necessary for the future life. The perniciousness of vanity.

DISCOURSE 23. The firmness of the righteous Noah, the great blessings contained in virtue. Noah found grace before the Lord God; Praise from all men is not a proof of virtue. The Scriptures deprive the wicked of the name "man." The righteousness and godliness of Noah. The best way of genealogy. In the matter of virtue, after the highest grace, everything depends on the free cry of man.

DISCOURSE 24. Everything in the Divine Scriptures must be carefully examined. The long-term chastity of Noah and the corruption of the whole earth. The announcement of the divine sentence to Noah and the command to build an ark for the salvation of the righteous man and his entire family to eat with pairs of various animals. The basis for distinguishing between clean and unclean animals and the purpose of this command. The purpose of the divine proclamation of the day of the flood. Inducing listeners to fulfill the divine commandments.

DISCOURSE 25. God's love for mankind at the time of the coming of the flood; The shortening of the time given for repentance made it easier to punish sinners. The forty-day increase of the flood water and the closure of the ark by God from without. Noah's great faith and the return of his original power over animals. Destruction of all that dwelleth on the earth, except that which are in the ark. Exhortation to feats of virtue by hope in God and the infinite blessings promised by Him.

DISCOURSE 26. God's blessings to the human race and the beneficence of remembering this. The sacrifice of Noah and the reason for God's permission of sacrifices and the institution of circumcision. The high price of good will. The Divine promise to Noah, naked, the ancestor of mankind, and the commandment not to eat blood. Exhortation to correction, repentance and forgiveness of offenses.

DISCOURSE 27. God's blessings to the human race and the beneficence of remembering this. The sacrifice of Noah and the reason for God's permission of sacrifices and the institution of circumcision. The high price of good will. The Divine promise to Noah, naked, the ancestor of mankind, and the commandment not to eat blood. Exhortation to correction, repentance and forgiveness of offenses.

DISCOURSE 28. The purpose of Chrysostom's discourses. God's covenant with Noah and its sign. God's condescension to sinners and goodwill to the virtuous. And Ham was the father of Canaan. The origin of post-flood mankind from the three sons of Noah is a matter of special divine providence, as is the spread of Christianity. An exhortation to love God and to direct the eyes of faith to Him.

DISCOURSE 29. The Scriptures depict not only the virtues, but also the sins of the righteous. Scripture gives healing to all who suffer. What explains Noah's drunkenness? Compassion of the righteous for their neighbors. It is not the wine that is to blame, but the abuse of it. Why is the son cursed for his father's sin? The beginning of slavery. Prophetic blessing to Shem and Japheth.