[BlackAdderess]

I’m not referencing the stuff in the brackets but the correct translation of the word “figure” which most translations stumble over and consequently can be deceptive on. Ignore the stuff in the brackets, it’s choppy but it comes to the same.

[LearsFool]

I see what you're saying now. Okay, let's read it without the commentary (vv. 20-21):

"who long before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God’s patience waited during the building of the ark in which a few, actually eight in number, were saved through water. And baptism, which is a figure, does now also save you, not by the removing of outward body filth, but by the answer of a good and clear conscience before God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ."

Now we can note the resemblances between Noah's salvation and the salvation of the sinner from sin:

1. There is salvation in both cases - Noah from drowning, and the sinner from sin and condemnation.

2. Water is used in both cases.

3. In each case, the water is the means or instrument of the salvation.