The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the…
III.—The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus.
And after the flood, Sem begot Arphaxad.
In the year of the world 3277, Abraham entered the promised land of Canaan.
From this record, therefore, we affirm that Ogygus, After a break After another break
On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel.
On the Circumstances Connected with Our Saviour’s Passion and His Life-Giving Resurrection.
II.3 In Georgius Syncellus, Chron., p. 19, al. 15.
When men multiplied on the earth, the angels of heaven came together with the daughters of men. In some copies I found “the sons of God.” What is meant by the Spirit, in my opinion, is that the descendants of Seth are called the sons of God on account of the righteous men and patriarchs who have sprung from him, even down to the Saviour Himself; but that the descendants of Cain are named the seed of men, as having nothing divine in them, on account of the wickedness of their race and the inequality of their nature, being a mixed people, and having stirred the indignation of God.4 The text here is manifestly corrupt: ἐπιμιχθέντων αὐτῶν, τὴν ἀγανάκτησιν ποιήσασθαι τὸν Θεόν. But if it is thought that these refer to angels, we must take them to be those who deal with magic and jugglery, who taught the women the motions of the stars and the knowledge of things celestial, by whose power they conceived the giants as their children, by whom wickedness came to its height on the earth, until God decreed that the whole race of the living should perish in their impiety by the deluge.