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| Chapter XXXII.—How the Human Race Was Dispersed.
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Chapter XXXII.—How the Human Race Was Dispersed.
Hence, therefore, may the loves of learning
and of antiquity understand the history, and see that those things
are recent which are told by us apart from the holy prophets.616
| 616 Proving the antiquity of
Scripture, by showing that no recent occurrences are mentioned in
it. Wolf, however, gives another reading, which would be rendered,
“understand whether those things are recent which we utter on
the authority of the holy prophets.” | For though at
first there were few men in the land of Arabia and Chaldæa, yet,
after their languages were divided, they gradually began to multiply and
spread over all the earth; and some of them tended towards the east to
dwell there, and others to the parts of the great continent, and others
northwards, so as to extend as far as Britain, in the Arctic regions.
And others went to the land of Canaan, which is called Judæa, and
Phœnicia, and the region of Ethiopia, and Egypt, and Libya, and
the country called torrid, and the parts stretching towards the west;
and the rest went to places by the sea, and Pamphylia, and Asia, and
Greece, and Macedonia, and, besides, to Italy, and the whole country
called Gaul, and Spain, and Germany; so that now the whole world is
thus filled with inhabitants. Since then the occupation of the world
by men was at first in three divisions,—in the east, and south,
and west: afterwards, the remaining parts of the earth were inhabited,
when men became very numerous. And the writers, not knowing these things,
are forward to maintain that the world is shaped like a sphere, and to
compare it to a cube. But how can they say what is true regarding these
things, when they do not know about the creation of the world and its
population? Men gradually increasing in number and multiplying on the
earth, as we have already said, the islands also of the sea and the rest
of the countries were inhabited.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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