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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume II

Book Sixteen — the tower of Babel and the division of tongues

This second Volume on Genesis first came forth, printed at Rome, in the year after the Birth of Christ the Lord 1592, in the month of August, but in the 56th year of the Author's age. PRAISE TO GOD AND TO THE EVER-VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF GOD

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This second Volume on Genesis first came forth, printed at Rome, in the year after the Birth of Christ the Lord 1592, in the month of August, but in the 56th year of the Author's age. PRAISE TO GOD AND TO THE EVER-VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF GOD.1

Hic secundus Tomus in Genesim primùm Typis excusus Romae prodiit, anno post Christi Domini Ortum M.D.XCII., Mense Augusto, aetatis verò Auctoris anno LVI. LAUS DEO ET DEIPARAE SEMPER VIRGINI MARIAE.

Translator’s notes

  1. Colophon. The second volume of Pererius's Genesis commentary was first printed at Rome in August 1592, when the author (Benedictus Pererius / Benito Perera, b. 1535) was 56 — followed by the dedicatory doxology. This is the end of the printed commentary text (PDF 680 = printed 577); PDF 681 onward is the alphabetical index (back-matter). ↩