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Introductory Note to Theophilus of Antioch
[672] The following quotation is not from the Republic, but from the third book of the Laws, p. 676.
[673] Plato goes on to say, that if he had this pledge of divine assistance, he would go further in his speculation; and therefore Theophilus argues that what he said without this assistance he felt to be unsafe.
Chapter XVII.—Accurate Information of the Christians.
[674] Literally, “contained.”
[675] [See supra, book i. cap. 14, p. 93, the author’s account of his own conversion.]
Chapter XVIII.—Errors of the Greeks About the Deluge.
[676] λαός, from λᾶας, stone.
Chapter XIX.—Accurate Account of the Deluge.
[677] Literally, in Greek, ἀνάπαυσις.
[678] Deucalion, from Δεῦτε, come, and καλἐω, I call.
Chapter XX.—Antiquity of Moses.
[679] Or, reading ὀ γὰρ Σέθως, “Sethos is also called Egyptus.”
Chapter XXI.—Of Manetho’s Inaccuracy.
[680] The Benedictine editor shows that this should be 393 years.
[681] The correct date would be about 400 years.
Chapter XXII.—Antiquity of the Temple.
[682] Others read 134 years.
[683] Literally, Hieromus.
[684] In this register it seems that the number of years during which each person lived does not include the years of his reign.
Chapter XXIII.—Prophets More Ancient Than Greek Writers.
[685] But the meaning here is obscure in the original. Malachi was much later than Zechariah.
[686] [Usher, in his Annals, honours our author as the father of Christian chronology, p. 3. Paris, 1673.]
Chapter XXIV.—Chronology from Adam.
[687] i.e., till he begat Seth. [A fragment of the Chronicon of Julius Africanus, a.d. 232, is given in Routh’s Reliquiæ, tom. ii. p. 238, with very rich annotations. pp. 357–509.]
Chapter XXVI.—Contrast Between Hebrew and Greek Writings.
[688] [Usher notes this as affirmed in general terms only, and qualified afterwards, in cap. xxix, infra, note i, p. 121.]
Chapter XXVIII.—Leading Chronological Epochs.
[689] [As Verus died a.d. 169, the computation of our author makes the creation, b.c. 5529. Hales, who says b.c. 5411, inspires us with great respect for Theophilus, by the degree of accuracy he attained, using (the LXX.) the same authority as his base. Slight variations in the copies used in his day might have led, one would think, to greater discrepancies.]
Chapter XXIX.—Antiquity of Christianity.
[690] Another reading gives, “both of the antiquity of our religion.”
[691] [Usher quotes this concession as to the ἀκριβεία or minute delicacy he could not attain. Ut supra, p. 119, note 1.]
[692] Berosus flourished in the reign of Alexander the Great.
Chapter XXX.—Why the Greeks Did Not Mention Our Histories.
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