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daughters. ²⁰And Reu liued thirtie two yeares, and begat Sarug. ²¹Reu liued also after he begat Sarug, two hundred seauen yeares, and begat sonnes & daughters. ²²And Sarug liued thirtie yeares, and begat Nachor. ²³And Sarug liued after he begat Nachor, two hundred yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. ²⁴And Nachor liued nine and twentie yeares, and begat Thara. ²⁵And Nachor liuer after he begat Thare, an hundred and ninteen yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. ²⁶And Thare liued seeuentie yeares, and begat Abram, and Nachor, and Aran. ²⁷And these are the generations of Thare: Thare begat Abram, Nachor, and Aran. Moreouer Aran begat Lot. ²⁸And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his natiuitie in ^[1] Vr of the Chaldees. ²⁹And Abram and Nachor maried wiues: the name of Abram his wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor his wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran the father of Melcha, and the father of Iescha. ³⁰And Sarai was barren, neither had she children. ³¹Thare therefore ^[2] tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Aran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his sonne, and brought them out of Vr of the Chaldees, for to goe into the land of Chanaan: and they came as farre as Haran, and dwelled there. ³²And the dayes of Thare came to two hundred fiue yeares, and died in Haran.

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ANNOTATIONS.
CHAP. XI.

Pride is cause of schisme and heresie.
False pretences deceiue the simple.4. Let vs make.) Here we may see in Nemrod the common causes of heresies, and the manner of Hertikes proceding. For he hauing a subtile, proud, and aspiring mind, first detracted from God, S. Chri. ho. 30. in Gen. Cassian. collat. 4. c. 12.perswading men (as is noted before) not to depend vpon Gods prouidence, and finding some others of like humour, they conspired together, and drew more followers, by bearing the simpler sorte in hand (for it was vnpossible wise men should belieue it) that they would make a towre of defence against a new floud, if God should thinke to drowne the world againe. Heretikes prosper for a time, but are confounded in the end.But their principal intention was to make themselues great and strong for the present, and famous to posteritie. Al which God ouerthrew, neither suffering them to build vp their imagined castle of strength, nor to be praised for their worke, but made them infamous to the worlds end.

Ministerie of Angels.Li. de consus. ling. ho. 11. in7. Let vs confound.) God in dissipating this vaine worke of men, would vse the ministerie of Angels. As not only Philo Iudæus, and Origen, but also S. Augustin, S. Gregorie, and other fathers expound these wordes, Come, let vs descend,

1. Vr a citie, or territorie of Chaldea. 70. Interpret. and Iosephus l. 1. Antiq.
2. Abram was commanded to goe forth of Chaldea, as appeareth Act. 7. v. 4. though this journey is here ascribed to Thare as the principal person.