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250 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. CHAPTER XXXI. Of Africanus. AT this time, also, flourished Africanus, who wrote the books with the title CestL There is an epistle of his extant, addressed to Origen, in which he intimates his doubts on the history of Su sannah, in Daniel, as if it were a spurious and fictitious compo sition. To which Origen wrote a very full answer. Other works of the same Africanus that have reached us, are his five books of Chronography, a most accurate and laboured performance. In these, he says that he had gone to Alexandria, on account of the great celebrity of Heraclas, the same that we have already shown was advanced to the episcopate there, and who was, also, very eminent for his skill in philosophical studies, and the other sciences of the Greeks. Another epistle of the same Africanus is also extant, addressed to Aristides, on the supposed discrepancy between Matthew and Luke in the genealogy of Christ. In this he most clearly establishes the consistency of the two evangelists, from an account which had been handed down from his ances tors, which, in its proper place, we have already anticipated in the first book of the work we have in hand. CHAPTER XXXII. The Commentaries that Origen wrote in Palestine ABOUT this time, also, Origen composed his Commentary on Isaiah, as also on Ezekiel. Of the former, thirty books have come down to us as fdr as the third part of Isaiah, until (the chapter beginning) the vision of the beast in the desert. On The word TO^O?, from which we get tome, properly signifies a section ; and as the sections of a work were sometimes on different scrolls, hence they were called hooks, volumes, and ro^o..