because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit, in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,
who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were preserved through water; The antitype of which (the spiritual counterpart of the ark) also now saves us -- immersing not flesh yet putting away filth. Granting a clear conscience unto God through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him
the ark represents the Holy Spirit. You need to be baptized by the Holy Spirit in order to get a spiritual ark in order to undergo the spiritual baptism of spiritual water (without getting wet as it were). That also explains the connection with the resurrection of Jesus.
who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were preserved through water; The antitype of which (the spiritual counterpart of the ark) also now saves us -- immersing not flesh yet putting away filth. Granting a clear conscience unto God through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him
the ark represents the Holy Spirit. You need to be baptized by the Holy Spirit in order to get a spiritual ark in order to undergo the spiritual baptism of spiritual water (without getting wet as it were). That also explains the connection with the resurrection of Jesus.