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Chapter
XXXII.—Abraham.
“In the twenty-first generation there was a
certain wise man, of the race of those who were expelled, of the family
of Noah’s eldest son, by name Abraham, from whom our Hebrew
nation is derived.554
| 554 [This orderly and
consistent explanation of the Old-Testament economy (chaps.
32–39) is peculiar to the
Recognitions.—R.] | When the whole
world was again overspread with errors, and when for the hideousness of
its crimes destruction was ready for it, this time not by water, but
fire, and when already the scourge was hanging over the whole earth,
beginning with Sodom, this man, by reason of his friendship with God,
who was well pleased with him, obtained from God that the whole world
should not equally perish. From the first this same man, being an
astrologer, was able, from the account and order of the stars, to
recognise the Creator, while all others were in error, and understood
that all things are regulated by His providence. Whence also an
angel,555
standing by him in a vision, instructed him
more fully concerning those things which he was beginning to
perceive. He showed him also what belonged to his race and
posterity, and promised him that those districts should be restored
rather than given to them.
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