Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter XXXII.--How the Human Race Was Dispersed.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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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] 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 …
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