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Works Africanus Chronographiae (fragmenta) The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus

IV. 1

On the Deluge.

God decreed to destroy the whole race of the living by a flood, having threatened that men should not survive beyond 120 years. Nor let it be deemed a matter of difficulty, because some lived afterwards a longer period than that. For the space of time meant was 100 years up to the flood in the case of the sinners of that time; for they were 20 years old. God instructed Noe, who pleased him on account of his righteousness, to prepare an ark; and when it was finished, there entered it Noe himself and his sons, his wife and his daughters-in-law, and firstlings of every living creature, with a view to the duration of the race. And Noe was 600 years old when the flood came on. And when the water abated, the ark settled on the mountains of Ararat, which we know to be in Parthia; 2 but some say that they are at Celaenae


  1. In Georgius Syncellus, Chron., p. 21, al. 17. ↩

  2. That is, in Armenia. ↩

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Introductory Notice to Julius Africanus

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