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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
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[161] Ex. xii. 37.
[162] Virgil, Æneid, xii. 899, 900. Compare the Iliad, v. 302, and Juvenal, xv. 65 et seqq.
"Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos."
[163] Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 16.
[164] See the account given by Herodotus (i. 67) of the discovery of the bones of Orestes, which, as the story goes, gave a stature of seven cubits.
[165] Pliny, Hist. Nat. vii. 49, merely reports what he had read in Hellanicus about the Epirotes of Etolia.
[166] "Our own mss.," of which Augustine here speaks, were the Latin versions of the Septuagint used by the Church before Jerome's was received; the "Hebrew mss." were the versions made from the Hebrew text. Compare De Doct. Christ. ii. 15 et seqq.
[167] Jerome (De Quæst. Heb. in Gen.) says it was a question famous in all the churches.—Vives.
[168] "Quos in auctoritatem celebriorum Ecclesia suscepit."
[169] See below, book xviii. c. 42-44.
[170] C. 8.
[171] On this subject see Wilkinson's note to the second book (appendix) of Rawlinson's Herodotus, where all available references are given.
[172] One hundred and eighty-seven is the number given in the Hebrew, and one hundred and sixty-seven in the Septuagint; but notwithstanding the confusion, the argument of Augustine is easily followed.
[173] Gen. vii. 10, 11 (in our version the seventeenth day).
[174] Gen. viii. 4, 5.
[175] Ps. xc. 10.
[176] Gen. iv. 1.
[177] Gen. iv. 25.
[178] Gen. v. 6.
[179] Gen. v. 8.
[180] Matt. i.
[181] His own children being the children of his sister, and therefore his nephews.
[182] This was allowed by the Egyptians and Athenians, never by the Romans.
[183] Both in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, though not uniformly, nor in Latin commonly.
[184] Gen. v. 2.
[185] Luke xx. 35, 36.
[186] Gen. iv. 18-22.
[187] Gen. iv. 26.
[188] Rom. viii. 24, 25.
[189] Rom. x. 13.
[190] Jer. xvii. 5.
[191]Æneid, i. 288.
[192]Æneid, iii. 97.
[193] Luke xx. 34.
[194] Rom. ix. 5.
[195] Eusebius, Jerome, Bede, and others, who follow the Septuagint, reckon only 2242 years, which Vives explains by supposing Augustine to have made a copyist's error.
[196]Transgreditur.
[197] Ps. li. 3.
[198] Gen. v. 1.
[199] Ps. xlix. 11.