[160] Lamech, according to the LXX. [161] Ex. xii. 37. [162] Virgil, _Æneid_, xii. 899, 900. Compare the _Iliad_, v. 302, and Juvenal, xv. 65 et seqq. "Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos." [163] Plin. _Hist. Nat._ vii. 16. [164] See the account given by Herodotus (i. 67) of the discovery of the bones of Orestes, which, as the story goes, gave a stature of seven cubits. [165] Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ vii. 49, merely reports what he had read in Hellanicus about the Epirotes of Etolia. [166] "Our own MSS.," of which Augustine here speaks, were the Latin versions of the Septuagint used by the Church before Jerome's was received; the "Hebrew MSS." were the versions made from the Hebrew text. Compare _De Doct. Christ._ ii. 15 et seqq. [167] Jerome (_De Quæst. Heb. in Gen._) says it was a question famous in all the churches.--VIVES. [168] "Quos in auctoritatem celebriorum Ecclesia suscepit." [169] See below, book xviii. c. 42-44. [170] C. 8. [171] On this subject see Wilkinson's note to the second book (appendix) of Rawlinson's _Herodotus_, where all available references are given. [172] One hundred and eighty-seven is the number given in the Hebrew, and one hundred and sixty-seven in the Septuagint; but notwithstanding the confusion, the argument of Augustine is easily followed. [173] Gen. vii. 10, 11 (in our version the seventeenth day). [174] Gen. viii. 4, 5. [175] Ps. xc. 10. [176] Gen. iv. 1. [177] Gen. iv. 25. [178] Gen. v. 6. [179] Gen. v. 8. [180] Matt. i. [181] His own children being the children of his sister, and therefore his nephews. [182] This was allowed by the Egyptians and Athenians, never by the Romans. [183] Both in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, though not uniformly, nor in Latin commonly. [184] Gen. v. 2. [185] Luke xx. 35, 36. [186] Gen. iv. 18-22. [187] Gen. iv. 26. [188] Rom. viii. 24, 25. [189] Rom. x. 13. [190] Jer. xvii. 5. [191] _Æneid_, i. 288. [192] _Æneid_, iii. 97. [193] Luke xx. 34. [194] Rom. ix. 5. [195] Eusebius, Jerome, Bede, and others, who follow the Septuagint, reckon only 2242 years, which Vives explains by supposing Augustine to have made a copyist's error. [196] _Transgreditur._ [197] Ps. li. 3. [198] Gen. v. 1. [199] Ps. xlix. 11. [200] Ps. lxxiii. 20. [201] Ps. lii. 8. [202] Ps. xl. 4. [203] Or, according to another reading, "Which I briefly said in these verses in praise of a taper." [204] Cant. ii. 4. [205] See _De Doct. Christ._ i. 28. [206] Ps. civ. 4. [207] On these kinds of devils, see the note of Vives _in loc._, or Lecky's _Hist. of Rationalism_, i. 26, who quotes from Maury's _Histoire de la Magie_, that the Dusii were Celtic spirits, and are the origin of our "Deuce." [208] 2 Pet. ii. 4. [209] Mark i. 2. [210] Mal. ii. 7.