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[342]. Gen. xxv. 2.
[343]. Gen. xxv. 4.
[344]. Tabari, i. c. lvii.
[345]. Weil, p. 98.
[346]. This the Targumim, or paraphrases of the Sacred Text, distinctly say, “Melchizedek, who was Shem, son of Noah, king of Jerusalem.” (Etheridge, i. p. 199.)
[347]. Fabricius, Codex Pseud. V. T. t. i. p. 311. The Book of the Combat of Adam says Melchizedek was the son of Canaan.
[348]. Suidas, Lexic. s. v. Μελχισεδέκ.
[349]. Πασχάλιον, seu Chronicon Paschale a mundo condito ad Heraclii imp. ann. vicesimum. Ed. C. du Fresne du Cange; Paris, 1688, p. 49.
[350]. Michael Glycas, Βίβλος χρονική, ed. Labbe; Paris, 1660, p. 135.