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Julius Africanus
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Introductory Notice to Julius Africanus.
[1027] Vol. ii. p. 87, this series.
[1028] Vol. iv. p. 227.
[1029] On St.Matt. i. 1-17.
[1030] Vol. iv. p. 385.
[1031] Hist. Eccl., vi. 31.
[1032] Cod. 34.
[1033] This letter, as given by Eusebius, is acephalous. A large portion of it is supplied by Cardinal Angelo Mai in the Bibliotheca nova Patrum, vol. iv. pp. 231 and 273. We enclose in brackets the parts wanting in Gallandi, who copied Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., i. 7). On this celebrated letter of Africanus to Aristides, consult especially Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., i. 7); also Jerome, comm. on Matt. i. 16; Augustine, Retract., ii. 7; Photius, cod. xxxiv. p. 22; and in addition to these, Zacharias Chrysopol. in Bibl. P. P. Lugd., vol. xix. p. 751.
[1034] δικαίως.
[1038] 1 Cor. xv. 12, etc.
[1039] Here what is given in Eusebius begins.
[1040] Reading συνεπεπλάκη. Migne would make it equivalent to “superimplexum est.” Rufinus renders it, “Reconjunctum namque est sibi invicem genus, et illud per Salomonem et illud quod per Nathan deducitur,” etc.
[1041] ἀναστάσεσιν ἀτέκνων. Rufinus and Damascenus omit these words in their versions of the passage.
[1042] The reading of the Codex Regius is ἀκολουθίαν, i.e., succession; the other leading mss. give ἐπολλαγήν, i.e. interchange or confusion.
[1043] But in our text in Luke iii. 23, 24, and so, too, in the Vulgate, Matthat and Levi are inserted between Heli and Melchi. It may be that these two names were not found in the copy used by Africanus.
[1044] Here Africanus applies the term “widow” (χηρεύουσαν) to one divorced an well as to one bereaved.
[1045] κατὰ λόγον.
[1046] Two things may be remarked here: first, that Africanus refers the phrase “as was supposed” not only to the words “son of Joseph,” but also to those that follow, “the son of Heli;” so that Christ would be the son of Joseph by legal adoption, just in the same way as Joseph was the son of Heli, which would lead to the absurd and impious conclusion that Christ was the son of Mary and a brother of Joseph married by her after the death of the latter. And second, that in the genealogy here assigned to Luke, Melchi holds the third place; whence it would seem either that Africanus’s memory had failed him, or that as Bede conjectures in his copy of the Gospel Melchi stood in place of Matthat (Migne). [A probable solution.]
[1047] Other mss. read, “Adam the son of God.”
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