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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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For we who both know the measure of those words,1135 and are not ignorant of the grace of faith, give thanks to the Father,1136 who has bestowed on us His creatures Jesus Christ the Saviour of all, and our Lord;1137 to whom be glory and majesty, with the Holy Spirit, for ever.

Notes

  1. 1134

    In Basil, De Spiritu Sancto, ch. xxix. § 73; Works, vol. iii. p. 61, edit. Paris. [Elucidation II.]

  2. 1135

    For rhematon, words, three mss. give rheton, sayings.

  3. 1136

    For hemin Patri there is another reading, hemon patrasi = to Him who gave to our fathers.

  4. 1137

    These words, "and our Lord," are wanting in three mss.

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.