L. VIVES.
NEeded (a) not.] Noe they say, had a sonne called Ionicus, a great astronomer: Moyses nameth * 1.1 him not. (b) For him.] Therevpon was he called Seth. Gen. 4. 25. (c) And he built. The hu∣manists cannot agree about the first city-founder. Some (with Pliny) say Cecrops, who built that which was first called Arx Cecropia, and afterwards Acropolis: Staho sayth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 built Argos (which Homer calls Pelasgicon) first. The Egyptians clayme all them-selues, and * 1.2 make their Diospolis, or Thebes the eldest citty of all: But this Henochia as Ioseph noteth which Cayne built is the eldest of all, Cayne being plagued with terror of conscience for the death of hi•…•… brother built it, and walled it about. It was a tipe of this world, and the society of deuills. * 1.3 Hi•…•…on ad Marcellam. (d) First son.] Iosephus saith he was, but he taketh the scriptures at the first sight. (e) For Iudas.] He was Iacobs fourth soone by Lea. Iuda was first called Canaan of Chams sonne, and afterwards Iuda of Iudas Iacobs sonne. Iosephus. So saith Iustine. lib. 36. who reckneth * 1.4 but ten sonnes of Israel, but hee erres in this, as he doth there where he saith that, the whole nation were called Iewes by Israel him-selfe after his sonne Iudas, who died after the diuision, but before his father. Lactantius saith that they tooke this name in a certaine desert of Syris where they rested, because Iudas had bin the captaine of that company, & the land where they had dwelt, had bin called Iudea. lib. 4. But I thinke that both the nation got the name, and the tribe of Iudah the Kingdome, for that in passing of the read sea, all the tribes stopping, Iudah made first way out after Moyses, which the Hebrewes say is ment by that of Iacob vnto Iudas, Thou hast come vp from captiuity my sonne, for so do they read it, (f) Liued 753.] I thinke this * 1.5 was Lamech, Noes father, who as the Hebrew saith liued 757. yeares, and the Septuagins 753. (g) Who maketh.] In my fathers time their was a towne in Spaine, euery dweller where∣of was descended from the children of one man who was then a liue: yet were there an hun∣dred houses in the towne, so that the youngest knew not by what name of kinred to call the old man, for our language hath names no higher then the great grandfather. (h) The nations.] From Is•…•…ael Abrahams sonne by Agar.