[1040] For Βαβυλῶνος, βασιλέων has been substituted. In an old chronologist, as quoted by Clement elsewhere, the latter occurs; and the date of the expulsion of the kings harmonizes with the number of years here given, which that of the destruction of Babylon does not.
[1041] Gen. xlvi. 27.
[1042] Luke iii. 1, 2, 23.
[1043] Isa, lxi. 1, 2.
[1044] Dan. viii. 13, 14.
[1045] Dan. xii. 12.
[1046] Dan. xii. 11, 12.
[1047] Matt. i. 17.
[1048] This is the account given by Philo, of whose book on the life of Moses this chapter is an epitome, for the most part in Philo’s words.
[1049] “He was the seventh in descent from the first, who, being a foreigner, was the founder of the whole Jewish race.”—Philo.