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AT this time also Africanus, the writer of the books entitled
Cesti, was well known.
There is extant an epistle of his to Origen, expressing doubts of the
story of Susannah in Daniel, as being spurious and fictitious.
Origen answered this very fully. Other works of the same Africanus
which have reached us are his five books on Chronology, a work
accurately and laboriously prepared. He says in this that he went to
Alexandria on account of the great fame of Heraclas, who excelled
especially in philosophic studies and other Greek learning, and whose
appointment to the bishopric of the church there we have already
mentioned. There is extant also another epistle from the same
Africanus to
Aristides on the supposed discrepancy between Matthew and Luke in the
Genealogies of Christ. In this he shows clearly the agreement of the
evangelists, from an account which had come down to him, which we have
already given in its proper place in the first book of this work.
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