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Address to the Greeks

Tatian

Chapter 38

About this work

Tatian attacks Greek claims to cultural and philosophical superiority, defends Christian teaching about God, creation, resurrection, and ethics, and argues for the antiquity of biblical wisdom.

Author: Tatian
Date: c. AD 165–175
Origin: Rome or the eastern Mediterranean
Genre: Apology

The Egyptians Place Moses in the Reign of Inachus.

Of the Egyptians also there are accurate chronicles. Ptolemy

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,

not

the

king

,

but

a

priest

of

Mendes

,

is

the

interpreter

of

their

affairs

.

This

writer

,

narrating

the

acts

of

the

kings

,

says

that

the

departure

of

the

Jews

from

Egypt

to

the

places

whither

they

went

occurred

in

the

time

of

king

Amosis

,

under

the

leadership

of

Moses

.

He

thus

speaks

:

“

Amosis

lived

in

the

time

of

king

Inachus

.

”

After

him

,

Apion

the

grammarian

,

a

man

most

highly

esteemed

,

in

the

fourth

book

of

his

Ægyptiaca

(

there

are

five

books

of

his

)

,

besides

many

other

things

,

says

that

Amosis

destroyed

Avaris

in

the

time

of

the

Argive

Inachus

,

as

the

Mendesian

Ptolemy

wrote

in

his

annals

.

But

the

time

from

Inachus

to

the

taking

of

Troy

occupies

twenty

generations

.

The

steps

of

the

demonstration

are

the

following

:

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