The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the…

 III.—The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus.

 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 mean

 Adam, when 230 years old, begets Seth and after living other 700 years he died, that is, a second death.

 On the Deluge.

 Noe was 600 years old when the flood came on. From Adam, therefore, to Noe and the flood, are 2262 years.

 And after the flood, Sem begot Arphaxad.

 In the year of the world 3277, Abraham entered the promised land of Canaan.

 Of Abraham.

 Of Abraham and Lot.

 Of the Patriarch Jacob.

 From Adam, therefore, to the death of Joseph, according to this book, are 23 generations, and 3563 years.

 From this record, therefore, we affirm that Ogygus, After a break After another break

 1. Up to the time of the Olympiads there is no certain history among the Greeks, all things before that date being confused, and in no way consistent

 Æschylus, the son of Agamestor, ruled the Athenians twenty-three years, in whose time Joatham reigned in Jerusalem.

 And Africanus, in the third book of his History, writes : Now the first Olympiad recorded—which, however, was really the fourteenth—was the period whe

 On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel.

 On the Fortunes of Hyrcanus and Antigonus, and on Herod, Augustus, Antony, and Cleopatra, in Abstract.

 On the Circumstances Connected with Our Saviour’s Passion and His Life-Giving Resurrection.

 For we who both know the measure of those words, and are not ignorant of the grace of faith, give thanks to the Father,

IV.6 In Georgius Syncellus, Chron., p. 21, al. 17.

On the Deluge.

God decreed to destroy the whole race of the living by a flood, having threatened that men should not survive beyond 120 years. Nor let it be deemed a matter of difficulty, because some lived afterwards a longer period than that. For the space of time meant was 100 years up to the flood in the case of the sinners of that time; for they were 20 years old. God instructed Noe, who pleased him on account of his righteousness, to prepare an ark; and when it was finished, there entered it Noe himself and his sons, his wife and his daughters-in-law, and firstlings of every living creature, with a view to the duration of the race. And Noe was 600 years old when the flood came on. And when the water abated, the ark settled on the mountains of Ararat, which we know to be in Parthia;7 That is, in Armenia. but some say that they are at Celænæ8 For there was a hill Ararat in Phrygia, from which the Marsyas issued, and the ark was declared to have rested there by the Sibylline oracles. [But see vol. v. p. 149.] of Phrygia, and I have seen both places. And the flood prevailed for a year, and then the earth became dry. And they came out of the ark in pairs, as may be found, and not in the manner in which they had entered, viz., distinguished according to their species, and were blessed by God. And each of these things indicates something useful to us.