Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 7:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 295, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

City of God (HTML)

The progress of the earthly and heavenly cities traced by the sacred history. (HTML)

That the Years in Those Ancient Times Were of the Same Length as Our Own. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 810 (In-Text, Margin)

... protracted lives of those men the years were not so short that ten of their years were equal to only one of ours, but were of as great length as our own, which are measured by the course of the sun. It is proved by this, that Scripture states that the flood occurred in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life. But why in the same place is it also written, “The waters of the flood were upon the earth in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month,”[Genesis 7:10-11] if that very brief year (of which it took ten to make one of ours) consisted of thirty-six days? For so scant a year, if the ancient usage dignified it with the name of year, either has not months, or this month must be three days, so that it may ...