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Ligystinoi Campanians Celtiberians Iberians Gauls Aquitanians Illyrians Basantes Cannio Cartanoi Lusitanians Vaccaei British Scots Spaniards. 113.6 And their islands are Britain, Sicily, Euboea, Rhodes, Chios, Lesbos, Cythera 113.7 Zacynthus, Cephalenia, Ithaca, Corcyra, Cyprus. And if anywhere the name of a nation or an island is assigned twice, in the lot of one and again of another, according to the common borders or according to the colonies that arose from time to time or according to the seizure by Ham, who was greedy and took parts of Shem, let no one be surprised or doubt it. 114.1 Since, therefore, these nations came to be in this way from the three sons of Noah and the world was divided in three ways among the three sons, as I said before, an oath was demanded from them by their father that no one 114.2 should encroach upon his brother’s lot; and they said in the oath that the one who transgressed the command of the oath would be utterly destroyed, and all his 114.3 seed. Since, therefore, Palestine and all its neighboring lands fell within the lot of Shem, and Canaan son of Ham, being greedy, later came to the land of the Palestinians, that is Judea, 114.4 and seized it, God was patient, giving them time for repentance, so that those of Ham might repent and give back their proper inheritance to those of Shem, but they did not repent, but wished to fill up their measure, 114.5 - then God, being just, after many generations later, avenges the transgression of the oath; for thus it was necessary for the measure of the 114.6 Amorites to be filled. For Shem begat Arphaxad; and Ham begat Canaan, and Canaan after the act of greediness begat the Amorite and the Girgashite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Arkite and 114.7 the Arvadite and the Sidonian. Therefore, the generations are thus numbered until the vengeance for Shem: Shem, who was wronged, begat Arphaxad, as we said; and Arphaxad begat Cainan, Cainan Sala, Sala Eber, and the tower-building takes place; Eber begat Peleg, and the division of the earth and of languages takes place; Peleg begat Reu, Reu begat Serug, Serug begat Nahor, Nahor begat Terah, Terah begat Abraham, Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Jacob who was called Israel, from whom are the Israelites, Jacob begat Judah, Judah begat Perez, Perez begat Hezron, Hezron begat Ram, Ram begat Amminadab, Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon. This is the generation of those from Shem 114.8 begotten. Therefore God avenges these, who were wronged by the sons of Ham and deprived of their own place, by utterly destroying those of Canaan according to their oath, and the seed of Shem receives back its own land. God therefore did not act unjustly, allotting what is just to each part; "for God is not mocked," as I said before. 115.1 Therefore in the exodus, God, preparing for himself a congregation, says to Moses, "take off the sandals from your feet." For everyone 115.2 who is about to approach pure baths first takes them off. Since therefore much time had passed and everyone "has gone astray in his own way," and this congregation remained in its own evils, God did not yet reveal "the bath" "of regeneration," but for many years it was postponed, but later to the holy church the all-holy 115.3 bath he revealed; in Moses taking off sandals, in the prophets stripping off the outer tunic, leaving only a loincloth for Jeremiah, in John changing all the garments of the world, he transformed them from camel's hair, and in the Savior himself and his disciples he stripped off "the fashion of the world," and from above, from the heavens, after the cleansing of the waters, he put on the garment "of fire and of spirit." 115.4 But those seeing

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Λιγυστινοὶ Καμπανοὶ Κελτίβηρες Ἴβηρες Γάλλοι Ἀκουιτανοὶ Ἰλλυριανοὶ Βάσαντες Κάννιο Καρτανοὶ Λυσιτανοὶ Οὐακκαῖοι Βρεττανικοὶ Σκότοι Σπάνοι. 113.6 νῆσοι δὲ αὐτοῖς Βρεττανία Σικελία Εὔβοια Ῥόδος Χίος Λέσβος Κύθηρα 113.7 Ζάκυνθος Κεφαληνία Ἰθάκη Κέρκυρα Κύπρος. εἴ που δὲ ὄνομα ἔθνους ἢ νήσου ἐντέτακται δισσῶς ἐν κλήρῳ ἄλλου καὶ πάλιν ἄλλου, κατὰ τὰ κοινὰ ὅρια ἢ κατὰ τὰς γενομένας κατὰ καιρὸν ἀποικίας ἢ κατὰ πρόσληψιν τοῦ Χάμ, ὃς ἐπλεονέκτησε καὶ ἔλαβε τοῦ Σὴμ μέρη, μηδεὶς θαυμαζέτω ἢ ἀμφιβαλλέτω. 114.1 Τούτων τοίνυν τῶν ἐθνῶν οὕτως ἐκ τῶν τριῶν υἱῶν τοῦ Νῶε γεγονότων καὶ τριχῆ τοῦ κόσμου τοῖς τρισὶν υἱοῖς διαμερισθέντος, ὡς προεῖπον ὅρκος ἀπῃτήθη παρ' αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς μηδένα 114.2 ἐπεμβαίνειν τῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ κλήρῳ· τὸν δὲ ὑπερβαίνοντα τὴν τοῦ ὅρκου διαταγὴν ἐξολοθρεύεσθαι ἐν τῷ ὅρκῳ ἔφησαν καὶ πᾶν τὸ 114.3 σπέρμα αὐτοῦ. ἐπεὶ οὖν ἐν τῷ κλήρῳ τοῦ Σὴμ ἡ Παλαιστίνη ὑπέπεσε καὶ πάντα τὰ πλησίον αὐτῆς, πλεονέκτης δὲ ὢν ὁ Χαναὰν υἱὸς Χὰμ ἐπῆλθε τῇ Παλαιστινῶν ὕστερον γῇ τουτέστι τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ 114.4 καὶ ἀφαρπάζει αὐτήν, ἐμακροθύμει δὲ ὁ θεὸς διδοὺς χρόνους μετανοίας, ἵνα μετανοήσειαν οἱ ἐκ τοῦ Χὰμ καὶ ἀποδῶσι τοῖς τοῦ Σὴμ τὴν ἰδίαν κληρουχίαν, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ οὐ μετενόουν, ἀλλ' ἤθελον τὸ μέτρον 114.5 αὐτῶν πληρῶσαι, - τότε ὁ θεὸς μετὰ πολλὰς ὕστερον γενεὰς δίκαιος ὢν ἐκδικεῖ τὴν παράβασιν τοῦ ὅρκου· οὕτω γὰρ ἔδει πληρωθῆναι τὸ 114.6 Ἀμορραίων μέτρον. Σὴμ γὰρ γεννᾷ τὸν Ἀρφαξάδ· Χὰμ δὲ γεννᾷ τὸν Χαναάν, Χαναὰν δὲ γεννᾷ μετὰ τὴν πλεονεξίαν τὸν Ἀμορραῖον καὶ τὸν Γεργεσαῖον καὶ Φερεζαῖον καὶ Εὐαῖον καὶ Ἀρουκαῖον καὶ 114.7 Ἀράδιον καὶ Σιδώνιον. ἀριθμοῦνται τοίνυν οὕτως αἱ γενεαὶ ἕως τῆς τοῦ Σὴμ ἐκδικίας· Σὴμ ὁ πλεονεκτηθεὶς γεννᾷ τὸν Ἀρφαξάδ, ὡς εἴπομεν· Ἀρφαξὰδ δὲ γεννᾷ τὸν Κηνᾶ, Κηνᾶ τὸν Σάλα, Σάλα τὸν Ἔβερ καὶ γίνεται ἡ πυργοποιία· Ἔβερ γεννᾷ τὸν Φαλὲκ καὶ γίνεται γῆς καὶ γλωσσῶν διαμερισμός· Φαλὲκ γεννᾷ τὸν Ῥαγαῦ, Ῥαγαῦ τὸν Σερούχ, Σεροὺχ τὸν Ναχώρ, Ναχὼρ τὸν Θάρρα, Θάρρα τὸν Ἀβραάμ, Ἀβραὰμ τὸν Ἰσαάκ, Ἰσαὰκ τὸν Ἰακὼβ τὸν ἐπονομασθέντα Ἰσραήἐξ οὗπερ Ἰσραηλῖται, Ἰακὼβ τὸν Ἰούδαν, Ἰούδας τὸν Φαρές, Φαρὲτὸν Ἐσρώμ, Ἐσρὼμ τὸν Ἀράμ, Ἀρὰμ τὸν Ἀμιναδάβ, Ἀμιναδὰβ τ Ναασσὼν καὶ Ναασσὼν τὸν Σαλμών. αὕτη ἡ γενεὰ τῶν ἀπὸ Σὴμ 114.8 γεγεννημένων. τούτους οὖν ἀδικηθέντας ὑπὸ τῶν υἱῶν Χὰμ καὶ τὸν ἴδιον τόπον ἀφαιρεθέντας ἐκδικεῖ ὁ θεὸς ἐξολοθρεύσας τοὺς τοῦ Χαναὰν κατὰ τὸν ὅρκον αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα τοῦ Σὴμ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀπολαμβάνει χώραν. οὐκ ἠδίκησεν οὖν ὁ θεός, τὰ δίκαια ἑκάστῳ μέρει ἀπονέμων· «οὐ γὰρ μυκτηρίζεται ὁ θεός», ὡς προεῖπον. 115.1 Ἐν τῇ οὖν ἐξόδῳ συναγωγὴν ἑαυτῷ ὁ θεὸς ἁρμόζων φησὶ Μωυσῇ «ὑπόλυσαι τὰ ὑποδήματα ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν σου». πᾶς γὰρ ὁ 115.2 μέλλων καθαροῖς λουτροῖς προσιέναι πρῶτον ὑπολύεται. ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν χρόνος πολὺς διελήλυθε καὶ πᾶς τις «ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπλανήθημεν» καὶ αὕτη ἡ συναγωγὴ ἐν τοῖς ἰδίοις κακοῖς ἔμεινεν, οὔπω «τὸ λουτρὸν» ὁ θεὸς «τῆς παλιγγενεσίας» ἀπεκάλυπτεν, ἀλλ' ἔτεσι μὲν πολλοῖς ἀνεβάλλετο, ὕστερον δὲ τῇ ἁγίᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ τὸ πανάγιον 115.3 λουτρὸν ἀπεκάλυψεν· ἐν μὲν Μωυσῇ ὑποδήματα ὑπολύων, ἐν δὲ προφήταις τὸν ἔξωθεν χιτῶνα ἀπεκδύων, περίζωμα μόνον καταλείψας τῷ Ἰερεμίᾳ, ἐν δὲ Ἰωάννῃ ὅλα τὰ τοῦ κόσμου ἱμάτια μεταβαλὼν ἐκ τριχῶν καμήλου μετεσχημάτιζεν, ἐν δὲ αὐτῷ τῷ σωτῆρι καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῦ μαθηταῖς «κόσμου τὸ σχῆμα» ἐξέδυσεν, ἄνωθεν δὲ ἀπ' οὐρανῶν μετὰ τὴν τῶν ὑδάτων κάθαρσιν «πυρὸς καὶ πνεύματος» ἔνδυσιν ἐνεδί115.4 δυσκεν. ἀλλ' ὁρῶντες οἱ