5/30 As to preference for the longer computation by the fathers of the Church, see Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, vol.ii, p.291.For the sacred significance of the six days of creation in ascertaining the antiquity of man, see especially Eichen, Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Weltanschauung; also Wallace, True Age of the World, pp. 2,3. For the views of St.Augustine, see Topinard, Anthropologie, citing the De Civ.Dei., lib. viii, c.x.For the views of Philastrius, see the De Hoeresibus, c. |