[For the prior two books of 'Concerning the Proof of the Sixth Age', see here and here].
In the first two books of his De Comprobatione Sextae Aetatis, Julian of Toledo tried to show that the Old and New Testaments do not give any weight to the number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world with regards to the question of the coming of Christ. In this third and final book, he focuses on the issue of generations, the differences in chronology between the original Hebrew and Septuagint versions of the Old Testament/Tanakh (the Septuagint being its Koine Greek translation, named for 70 translators who reputedly worked on it), and the actual number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world. His main arguments can be summarised as follows:
. The number of years that have passed since the beginning of the world is ultimately not relevant to distinguish the ages of the world and recognise the time of Christ's birth in the sixth age of the world. Rather, the number of generations matters.
. The first two ages of the world consist of 10 generations each. This is because the first two generations can be compared to the stages of infancy and childhood when one has the basic five senses but lack of cognitive discretion and the ability to act meaningfully. As such, with these five senses being present in both males and females, 5x2=10, and thus the first two ages span 10 generations each.
. The third, fourth and fifth ages consist of 14 generations each. This is because they are like adolescence, young adulthood and adulthood, when humans gain cognitive discretion and the ability to act meaningfully. Thus, both males and females then have seven senses, as it were. Thus, 7x2= 14, and thus these three ages span 14 generations each.
. Christ was to be born in the sixth age in the same way that there are seven days of creation and man was created on the sixth day. Thus the sixth age corresponds to humanity's renewal through the first coming of Christ, prior to the end of the world.
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