Julius Africanus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments of the Chronography… (1885)
“ For that water sustains no living thing, and dead bodies are carried beneath its depths, while the living do not readily even dip under it. Lighted torches are borne upon it, but when extinguished they sink. ”
Julius Africanus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments of the Chronography… (1885)
“ Of Abraham and Lot.When a famine pressed the land of Canaan, Abraham came down to Egypt; and fearing lest he should be put out of the way on account of the beauty of his wife, he pretended that he was her brother. But Pharaoh took her to himself when she was commended to him; for this is the name the Egyptians give their kings. And he was punished by God; and Abraham, along with all pertaining to him, was dismissed enriched. In Canaan, Abraham’s shepherds and Lot’s contended with each other ”
