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Sextus Julius
Africanus
Post-Apostolic Church
INTRO
Sextus
Julius Africanus was a church historian probably from Emmaus (see also Luke
24:13) and wrote around AD 220.
*** Jerome said he wrote his five volume work, On Chronology, during the reign of Emperor Elagabalus
(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) (NPNF2, 3.375).
LIFE
Africanus
attended the catechetical school in Alexandria ,
Egypt
WORKS
His lost work, Chronographiai, which
is about the history of the world, was a great influence on Eusebius. It places the creation of the world around 5500 BC which closely agrees with
Theophilus of Antioch's date.
Africanus also had much to say about the
differences between Matthew's and Luke's genealogies. He explained that Matthew traces the ancestry
of Jesus according to Mosaic
Law, while Luke traces Jesus’ biological ancestry. Therefore, regardless of how Jesus’ ancestry
is traced, it meets up at David, proving that Jesus is “The Son of David” both
through law and nature.
QUOTATIONS
About the darkness that happened at Christ's
death, Africanus wrote,
Thallus, in the third
book of his History, calls this darkness--as appears to me without reason--an
eclipse of the sun. For the Hebrews
celebrate the Passover on the 14th day according to the moon, and the
sufferings of our Savior falls on the day before the Passover. But an eclipse of the sun takes place only
when the moon comes under the sun.
(Sextus Julius Africanus. AD
220. ANF, vol 6, page 136.)
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