{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This is corroborated still further by the fact that in the\r\neighth generation, while the Hebrew books assign 182<a id=\"FNanchor_172_172\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_172_172\">[172]</a>\r\nyears to Methuselah before Lamech's birth, ours assign to\r\nhim twenty less, though usually 100 years are added to this\r\nperiod; then, after Lamech's birth, the twenty years are restored,\r\nso as to equalize the total in the two books. For if\r\nhis design was that these 170 years be understood as seventeen,\r\nso as to suit the age of puberty, as there was no need\r\nfor him adding anything, so there was none for his subtracting\r\nanything; for in this case he found an age fit for the generation\r\nof children, for the sake of which he was in the habit of\r\nadding those 100 years in cases where he did not find the\r\nage already sufficient. This difference of twenty years we\r\nmight, indeed, have supposed had happened accidentally, had\r\nhe not taken care to restore them afterwards as he had\r\ndeducted them from the period before, so that there might\r\nbe no deficiency in the total. Or are we perhaps to suppose\r\nthat there was the still more astute design of concealing the\r\ndeliberate and uniform addition of 100 years to the first\r\nperiod and their deduction from the subsequent period,—did\r\nhe design to conceal this by doing something similar, that is to<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_73\">[Pg 73]</a></span>\r\nsay, adding and deducting, not indeed a century, but some\r\nyears, even in a case in which there was no need for his\r\ndoing so? But whatever may be thought of this, whether\r\nit be believed that he did so or not, whether, in fine, it be\r\nso or not, I would have no manner of doubt that when any\r\ndiversity is found in the books, since both cannot be true to\r\nfact, we do well to believe in preference that language out\r\nof which the translation was made into another by translators.\r\nFor there are three Greek <span class=\"smcap\">mss.</span>, one Latin, and one Syriac,\r\nwhich agree with one another, and in all of these Methuselah\r\nis said to have died six years before the deluge.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-127"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"322a163861f6e1415a327cfee49db18a70bd5194bd476cd137c3710e0d22885c","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_172_172","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_172_172","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_172_172\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_172_172\"><span class=\"label\">[172]</span></a> One hundred and eighty-seven is the number given in the Hebrew, and one\r\nhundred and sixty-seven in the Septuagint; but notwithstanding the confusion,\r\nthe argument of Augustine is easily followed.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_172_172","text_sha256":"04a9c860b83ef2275985cb6f22c856a784a1ba23f2d752be62dce0d82af23de9","verified":false,"work_id":null}