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| Chapter XVIII.—Errors of the Greeks About the Deluge.
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Chapter XVIII.—Errors of the Greeks About the Deluge.
For Plato, as we said above, when he had
demonstrated that a deluge had happened, said that it extended not over
the whole earth, but only over the plains, and that those who fled to
the highest hills saved themselves. But others say that there existed
Deucalion and Pyrrha, and that they were preserved in a chest; and that
Deucalion, after he came out of the chest, flung stones behind him,
and that men were produced from the stones; from which circumstance
they say that men in the mass are named “people.”676
| 676 λαός,
from λᾶας,
stone. | Others, again, say that Clymenus existed in a second
flood. From what has already been said, it is evident that they who
wrote such things and philosophized to so little purpose are miserable,
and very profane and senseless persons. But Moses, our prophet and the
servant of God, in giving an account of the genesis of the world, related
in what manner the flood came upon the earth, telling us, besides, how the
details of the flood came about, and relating no fable of Pyrrha nor of
Deucalion or Clymenus; nor, forsooth, that only the plains were submerged,
and that those only who escaped to the mountains were saved.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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