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Headword:
*fa/lek
Adler number: phi,45
Translated headword: Peleg (Phalek)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: According to the prophetic utterance the half of the time until the coming of Christ is called [Peleg]; for from Adam until the flood under Noah [there were] 2242 years, and from the flood until Peleg [there were] 758 years, in total 3000 years; for from the creation of the world until the ascension of our lord Jesus Christ [there were] 6000 years.
Greek Original:*fa/lek: kata\ th\n profhtikh\n fwnh\n to\ h(/misu le/getai tou= xro/nou th=s tou= *xristou= parousi/as: a)po\ ga\r *)ada\m me/xri tou= kataklusmou= e)pi\ *nw=e e)/th #22bsmb#, a)po\ de\ tou= kataklusmou= e(/ws tou= *fa/lekos e)/th ynh#, w(s gi/nesqai e)/th #22g#: a)po\ ga\r kti/sews ko/smou me/xri th=s a)nalh/yews tou= kuri/ou h(mw=n *)ihsou= *xristou= e)/th #22#2#.
Notes:
cf.
alpha 425 (end).
cf.
Genesis 10:25 (web address 1); Malalas 25.23, 173.12-16, 20-21 (ed. Thurn); Cedrenus 1.28.4-6;
Hesychius Illustrius,
Homilia in natalem Christi 5-11.
On Phalek meaning "division," see
Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 1.146 (web address 2).
The Hebrew "peleg" פֶּלֶג means "half". In Rabbinic literature, "dor ha-palga" דור הפלגה (generation of the divide), from the same root, means the generation that witnessed the Tower of Babel and were then divided into many languages.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: Christianity; chronology; definition; religion
Translated by: Kostas Zafeiris on 17 July 2004@13:10:29.
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