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the tracing back of the divine and pious Luke to Seth and to Adam and to God. And Noah, when he was 500 years old, begot three sons, Shem, Ham, Japheth. And 100 years after his sons were born he entered into the ark, being 600 years old, and thus the flood happens. And in the 601st year of his life he went out from the ark, and after the flood he lived 350 years, and he died having lived a total of 950 years. But when the flood had ceased, the fear indeed was giving way, but the things of his despondency were intensely stretched, and he was suffering the prophetic thing, which Amos says concerning the day of the Lord, "as if a man should flee from the face of a lion and a bear meet him; or went into his house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him," so it was happening then. For having emerged from the ark and been freed from that fetid and confined prison, another storm, no less than the former, succeeded, as he contemplated the despair and destruction of the race.

And Shem, two years after the flood, being 102 years old, begot Arphaxad, and after this he lived 500 years, and died having lived a total of 602 years. And Arphaxad, being 135 years old, begot Cainan, and after this he lived 403 years, and died having lived a total of 538 years. And Cainan, being 109 years old, begot Sala, and after this he lived 330 years, and died having lived a total of 367 years. And his father educated Sala in letters as he grew up; and once Sala, having gone to look for a colony, came to the land of the Chaldeans and encountered writings engraved on certain stones; and these were the tradition of the Watchers; and Sala, having written these things down, both sinned himself in them and taught the same absurdity to others. And Sala, being 130 years old, begot Eber, and after this he lived 403 years, and died having lived a total of 533 years. And Eber, being 134 years old, begot Joktan and Peleg. And in the time of Eber, the people conceived of constructing a tower reaching to heaven for the avoidance of the flood, as if God were plotting against them; for they all had one language. And Nimrod the giant, son of Cush the Ethiopian, commanded and supplied animals by hunting for food. And Eber, the son of Sala, was entrusted to press on with the building of the tower and of Babylon, which is confusion. And when all rushed to the building of the tower and the city, they had 72 leaders, but Eber alone did not consent to their irrational work; wherefore also the languages of all were confused, those who had conspired being divided into 72 languages according to the number of their leaders; God did not deprive Eber alone of the ancient language. Whence those who remained with the former language named it Hebrew according to the name of him who kept it, Eber, for the race of the Hebrews, who are called Hebrews both patronymically and eponymously. Wherefore also those from Adam used the Hebrew language, and those descended from Abraham and Noah and the second Adam, I mean Christ, clearly used the Hebrew language according to the first Adam of all, as in ephphatha and talitha koum and lama sabachthani and similar things. And indeed, in addition to these things, the names of the ancients are also clear proof that this was the language before the confusion, and by this the thing sought is interpreted, for which it is not possible to resolve the meaning in any other language, such as the names of Adam and the rest are not interpreted through any other, except through Hebrew alone. For they also call this language Syriac, as the very learned Origen thus testifies, interpreting from the Syriac book and thereafter calling the dialect of the Hebrews Syriac, since the ancients used to call Judea Syria, and the Palestinians Syrians. The tower therefore was built in the time of Eber in years

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θείου καὶ εὐσεβοῦς Λουκᾶ ἀναπόδισιν ἕως τοῦ Σὴθ καὶ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ. Νῶε δὲ γενόμενος ἐτῶν φʹ ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς τρεῖς, τὸν Σήμ, τὸν Χάμ, τὸν Ἰάφεθ. μετὰ δὲ ἔτη ρʹ τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ τεχθῆναι υἱοὺς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν κιβωτόν, ὑπάρχων ἐτῶν χʹ, καὶ οὕτω γίνεται ὁ κατακλυσμός. καὶ ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ καὶ χʹ ἔτει τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ ἐξῆλθεν ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν ἔζησεν ἔτη 10 τνʹ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν ζήσας τὰ πάντα ἔτη Ϡνʹ. ἐπειδὴ δέ ποτε ὁ κατακλυσμὸς ἐπαύσατο, ὁ μὲν φόβος ἐνεδίδου λοιπόν, ἐπετείνετο δὲ τὰ τῆς ἀθυμίας αὐτῷ σφόδρα, καὶ τὸ προφητικὸν ἔπασχεν, ὃ περὶ τῆς ἡμέρας κυρίου φησὶν Ἀμώς, «ὃν τρόπον ἐὰν ἐκφύγῃ ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ προσώπου λέοντος καὶ ἐμπέσῃ αὐτῷ ἡ ἄρκος καὶ εἰσέλθῃ εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπερείσῃ τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν τοῖχον καὶ δάκῃ αὐτὸν ὄφις,» οὕτω συνέβαινε τότε. καὶ γὰρ τῆς κιβωτοῦ προκύψαντα καὶ τῆς δυσώδους καὶ στενοχωρουμένης εἰρκτῆς ἐκείνης ἀπαλλαγέντα χειμὼν ἕτερος διεδέχετο τοῦ προτέρου οὐχ ἥττων, τὴν ἀπορίαν καὶ ἀπώλειαν ἐννοήσας τοῦ γένους.

Σὴμ δὲ μετὰ δύο ἔτη τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, γενόμενος ρβʹ ἐτῶν, ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἀρφαξάδ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἔζησεν ἔτη φʹ, καὶ ἀπέθανε ζήσας τὸ πάντα ἔτη χβʹ. Ἀρφαξὰδ δὲ γενόμενος ρλεʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Καϊνᾶν, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἔζησεν ἔτη υγʹ, καὶ ἀπέθανε ζήσας τὰ πάντα ἔτη φληʹ. Καϊνᾶν δὲ γενόμενος ἐτῶν ρθʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Σάλα, καὶ μετὰ 11 τοῦτο ἔζησεν ἔτη τλʹ, καὶ ἀπέθανε ζήσας τὰ πάντα ἔτη τξζʹ. τὸν δὲ Σάλα ὁ πατὴρ αὐξηθέντα γράμματα ἐξεπαίδευσε· καὶ δή ποτε ὁ Σάλα πορευθεὶς ἀποικίαν κατασκέψασθαι, ἐλθὼν κατὰ γῆν Χαλδαίων γράμματα ἐπί τινων διακεχαραγμένα πετρῶν ἐντυχών· τὰ δ' ἦν ἄρα τῶν Ἐγρηγόρων παράδοσις· ταῦτα δὲ ἐγγραψάμενος ὁ Σάλα αὐτός τε ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐξημάρτανε καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τὴν αὐτὴν ἀτοπίαν ἐξεπαίδευσεν. ὁ δὲ Σάλα γενόμενος ἐτῶν ρλʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἕβερ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἔζησεν ἔτη υʹ τρία, καὶ ἀπέθανε ζήσας τὰ πάντα ἔτη φλγʹ. Ἕβερ δὲ γενόμενος ρλδʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἰεκτὰν καὶ τὸν Φάλεκ. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἕβερ ἐννοοῦσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι πύργον κατασκευάσαι οὐρανομήκη πρὸς ἀποφυγὴν τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, ὡς τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπιβουλεύοντος αὐτοῖς· ἦσαν γὰρ πάντες μιᾷ φωνῇ. Νεβρὼδ δὲ ὁ γίγας, Χουσαὶ τοῦ Αἰθίοπος υἱός, προσέτασσε καὶ εἰς βρῶσιν ἀγρεύων ἐχορήγει ζῶα. ὁ δὲ Ἕβερ, ὁ τοῦ Σάλα υἱός, ἐπείγειν ἐγκεχείριστο τὴν οἰκοδομὴν τοῦ πύργου καὶ τῆς Βαβυλῶνος, ὅ ἐστι σύγχυσις. τῶν δὲ πάντων ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ πύργου καὶ τῆς πόλεως ὁρμησάντων οἰκοδομὴν ἀρχηγοὺς εἶχεν οβʹ, μόνος δὲ Ἕβερ οὐ συνέθετο τῇ τούτων ἀλογίστῳ ἐργασίᾳ· διὸ καὶ πάντων αἱ γλῶσσαι συνεχύθησαν, τῶν συντεθειμένων εἰς οβʹ γλώσσας διαιρεθέντων κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτῶν· τούτῳ μόνῳ 12 τῷ Ἕβερ θεὸς οὐχ ὑστέρησε τὴν ἀρχαίαν φωνήν. ὅθεν οἱ ἀπομείναντες ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ γλώσσῃ Ἑβραῒς αὐτὴν ἐπωνόμασαν κατὰ τὴν τοῦ κρατήσαντος αὐτὴν ἐπωνυμίαν Ἕβερ εἰς τὸ γένος τῶν Ἑβραίων, οἵτινες πατρωνυμικῶς καὶ φερωνύμως Ἑβραῖοι καλοῦνται. διὸ καὶ τῇ τῶν Ἑβραίων γλώσσῃ ἐχρῶντο οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀδάμ, καὶ τοὺς ἀμφὶ τὸν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τὸν Νῶε καταγομένους καὶ τὸν δεύτερον Ἀδάμ, τὸν Χριστὸν λέγω, τῇ τῶν Ἑβραίων φωνῇ δῆλον κατὰ τὸν πρῶτον πάντων Ἀδὰμ χρώμενον, ὡς τὸ ἐφαθὰ καὶ ταλιθὰ κοῦμι καὶ λιμὰ σαβαχθανὶ καὶ τὰ ὅμοια. καὶ μέντοι καὶ πρὸς τούτοις καὶ τὰ τῶν παλαιῶν ὀνόματα ἐναργὲς τεκμήριον τοῦ ταύτην εἶναι φωνὴν τὴν πρὸ τῆς συγχύσεως, καὶ ταύτῃ τὸ ζητούμενον ἑρμηνεύεται, ἐφ' ὧν κατ' οὐδεμίαν ἔστι γλῶσσαν τὸ σημαινόμενον ἐπιλύσασθαι, οἷον τοῦ Ἀδὰμ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν αἱ προσηγορίαι δι' ἑτέρας οὐδεμιᾶς ἑρμηνεύονται, εἰ μὴ διὰ τῆς Ἑβραϊκῆς καὶ μόνης. ταύτην γὰρ τὴν γλῶσσαν καὶ Συριακὴν λέγουσιν, ὡς ὁ πολυμαθὴς οὕτω μαρτυρεῖ Ὠριγένης, ἑρμηνεύων ἐκ τῆς Συριακῆς βίβλου καὶ ἑξῆς Συριακὴν εἰπὼν τὴν Ἑβραίων διάλεκτον, ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Συρίαν τὴν Ἰουδαίαν καὶ Σύρους οἱ παλαιοὶ τοὺς Παλαιστίνους ὠνόμαζον. ὁ μὲν οὖν πύργος οἰκοδομήθη ἐπὶ Ἑβὲρ ἐν ἔτεσι