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The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus · VII. In the Year of the World 3277, Abraham Entered the Promised Land of Canaan

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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.

Notes

  1. 1089

    In the same, p. 93, al. 74. [Compare vol. v. p. 148.]

  2. 1090

    In the same, p. 99, al. 79. [rv is the verb.]

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.