![]() ![]() The first is Barbarism, 7 which prevailed without a rival from the days of Adam through ten generations to the time of Noah. The parents of all the heresies, and the prototypes from which they derive their names, and from which all other heresies originate, are these four primary ones. Then the death of Noah, and lastly the war between Cronus and Titan. The triple division of the earth is afterwards mentioned, over which each of the partriarchs ruled in peace. She then mentions Cronus, Titan and Jäpetus, and the three sons of the patriarch governing the world in the tenth generation after the deluge, thus, Καὶ τότε δὴ δεχάτη γενεὴ μερόπων ἀνϑρώπων, Thus kingdoms rose and the glad world was filled. They sped uncertain into the realms unknows: Was thence called Babel by th' apostate crew Produced a painful babbling sound: the place Perplexed and anxious to disclose their mind īut their lip failed them and in lieu of words And now all intercourse,Ĭeased among men: by utterance they strove To the fell whirlwinds, which with dire alarmsīeat on the Tower, and to its lowest base 5 B UT when the judgements of the Almighty GodĪ dread commission from on high was given ![]() OF THE TOWER AND TITANIAN WAR:įROM THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES. After the deluge lived Titan and Prometheus when Titan undertook a war against Cronus. But God 3 sending forth a whirlwind, confounded their design, and gave to each tribe a particular language of its own: which is the reason that the name of that city is Babylon. T HE Sibyl says: That when all men formerly spoke the same language some among them undertook to erect a large and lofty tower, that they might climb up into heaven. But they were again driven from thence by the introduction of a diversity of tongues: upon which they founded colonies in various parts, each settling in such situations as chance or the direction of God led them to occupy.- Jos. T HE priests who escaped took with them the implements of the worship of the Enyalian Jove, and came to Senaar in Babylonia. Perhaps this was the same individual of whom Moses the legislator of the Jews has made mention.-Jos. T HERE is above Minyas in the land of Armenia a very great mountain which is called Baris 2 to which, it is said, that many persons retreated at the time of the deluge, and were saved and that one in particular was carried thither in an ark, and was landed on its summit, and that the remains of the vessel were long preserved upon the mountain. Sacred-Texts Classics Index Previous Next SUPPLEMENTAL FRAGMENTS AND EXTRACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CHALDÆAN HISTORY.
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