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.
VIII.12 In the same, p. 99, al. 79. [רבַעָ is the verb.]
Of Abraham.
From this rises the appellation of the Hebrews. For the word Hebrews is interpreted to mean those who migrate across, viz., who crossed the Euphrates with Abraham; and it is not derived, as some think, from the fore-mentioned Heber. From the flood and Noe, therefore, to Abraham’s entrance into the promised land, there are in all 1015 years; and from Adam, in 20 generations 3277 years.