Differing Perfections

Justus atque perfectus fuit... Si nullus sine peccato vivere potest, quomodo Noe justus et perfectus fuisse dicitur? Sancti Dei perfecti sunt secundum aliquem suum modum, non autem ita sunt perfecti sicut perficiendi sunt. Unde et recte dicitur: in generationibus suis. In praesenti enim vita pro modo suo juvante Dei gratia perfecti esse possunt. In illa enim beata vita, in qua nec velle ne posse peccati eis suberit, longer aliter perfecti erunt. Remigius Antissiodorensis, Commentarius In Genesim, Caput VI Source: Migne PL 131.74b

He was righteous and perfect... 1 If there is no one who lives without sin, 2 how it is said that Noah was righteous and perfect? The holy ones of God are perfect according to their own way, but they are not perfect as they shall be perfected. Whence it is rightly then said, 'in his generation.' For in the present life, in their own way, with the help of the grace of God, they are able to be perfect. But in that blessed life, in which no wish nor capability for sin shall be theirs, they shall be far otherwise perfect. Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary On Genesis, Chapter 6 1 Genesis 6.9 2 cf Eccles 7.20, Rom 3.23, 1 Jn 1.8