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The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus · XI. From Adam, Therefore, to the Death of Joseph, According to This Book, Are 23 Generations, and 3563 Years

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And Africanus, in the third book of his History, writes: Now the first Olympiad recorded—which, however, was really the fourteenth—was the period when Coroebus was victor;1113 at that time Ahaz was in the first year of his reign in Jerusalem. Then in the fourth book he says: It is therefore with the first year of the reign of Ahaz that we have shown the first Olympiad to fall in.

Notes

  1. 1112

    From the same, Book III., and from Book IV. In Syncellus p. 197, al. 158.

  2. 1113

    The text is, anagraphenai de proten ten tessareskaidekaten, etc.

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.