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Chapter
XXX.—Noah’s Sons.
“In the twelfth generation, when God had
blessed men, and they had begun to multiply,551
they
received a commandment that they should not taste blood, for on account
of this also the deluge had been sent. In the thirteenth
generation, when the second of Noah’s three sons had done an
injury to his father, and had been cursed by him, he brought the
condition of slavery upon his posterity. His elder brother
meantime obtained the lot of a dwelling-place in the middle region of
the world, in which is the country of Judæa; the younger obtained
the eastern quarter, and he the western. In the fourteenth
generation one of the cursed progeny first erected an altar to demons,
for the purpose of magical arts, and offered there bloody
sacrifices. In the fifteenth generation, for the first time, men
set up an idol and worshipped it. Until that time the Hebrew
language, which had been given by God to men, bore sole sway. In
the sixteenth generation the sons of men migrated from the east, and,
coming to the lands that had been assigned to their fathers, each one
marked the place of his own allotment by his own name. In the
seventeenth generation Nimrod I. reigned in Babylonia, and built a
city, and thence migrated to the Persians, and taught them
to worship fire.”552
| 552 [With this chapter
compare Homily IX. 3–7.—R.] |
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