St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

Of the age of Thara, who liued in Charra vntill his dying day. CHAP. 14.

THara dyed in Mesopotamia, where it is said hee liued two hundred and fiue yeares, and after his death the promises that God made to Abraham began to be manifested: Of Thara, it is thus recorded: The dayes of Thara were two hundred and fiue yeares, and hee dyed in Charra. Hee liued not there all this time, you must thinke, but because he ended his time (which amounted vnto two hundred and fiue yeares) in that place, it is said so. Otherwise wee could not tell how many yeares he liued, because we haue not the time recorded when he came to Char∣ra: and it were fondnesse to imagine that in that Catalogue where all their ages are recorded, his onely should bee left out: for whereas the Scripture names some, and yet names not their yeares, it is to bee vnderstood, that they belong not to that generation that is so lineally drawne downe from man to man. For the stem that is deriued from Adam vnto Noah, and from him vnto Abraham, names no man without recording the number of his yeares also.