Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — The works ascribed to Africanus, beside the Cesti, are the following:--
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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1. Five Books of Chronology. Photius [1032] says of this work, that it was concise, but omitted nothing of importance. It began with the cosmogony of Moses, and went down to the advent of Christ. It summarized also the events from the time of Christ to the reign of the Emperor Macrinus. 2. A very famous letter to Aristides, in which he endeavoured to reconcile the apparent discrepancies in the genealogies of Christ given by Matthew and Luke. 3. A letter to Origen, in which he endeavoured to prove that the story of Susanna in Daniel was a forgery. A translation of this letter has been…
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