Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 63
63 Julius the African PL 23, 673
Julius Africanus, whose five volumes On Chronology, are yet extant, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who succeeded Macrinus, received a commission to restore the city of Emmaus, which afterwards was called Nicopolis. There is an epistle of his to Origen, On the question of Susanna, where it is contended that this story is not contained in the Hebrew, and is not consistent with the Hebrew etymology in respect of the play on “prinos and prisai,” “schinos and schisai.” In reply to this, Origen wrote a learned epistle. There is extant another letter of his, To Aristides, in which he discusses at length the discrepancies, which appear in the genealogy of our Saviour, as recorded by Matthew and Luke.
Julius Africanus, cujus quinque de Temporibus exstant volumina, sub Imperatore M. Aurelio Antonino, qui Macrino successerat, legationem pro instauratione urbis Emmaus suscepit, quae postea Nicopolis appellata est. Hujus est epistola ad Origenem super quaestione Susannae: eo quod dicat in Hebraeo hanc fabulam non haberi, nec convenire cum Hebraica etymologia ἀπὸ τοῦ σχίνου σχίσαι, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρίνου πρίσαι, contra quem doctam epistolam scribit Origenes. Exstat ejus ad Aristidem altera epistola, in qua super διαφωνίᾳ, quae videtur esse in genealogia Salvatoris apud Matthaeum et Lucam, plenissime disputat.
Ἰούλιος Ἀφρικανὸς, οὗ πέντε περὶ Χρόνων τυγχάνει λόγοι, ἐπὶ Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ διαδεξαμένου Μακρῖνον, πρεσβείαν ἀνεδέξατο περὶ ἀναστάσεως Ἐμμαοῦς τῆς πόλεως τῆς μετακληθείσης Νικοπόλεως. Ἔστι καὶ ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Ὠριγένην, ἕνεκεν τῆς κατὰ Σωσάνναν ζητήσεως· λέγει γὰρ ἐν τῷ Ἑβραϊκῷ τοῦτον μὴ εἶναι τὸν μῦθον, μηδὲ συνᾴδειν τῇ Ἑβραϊκῇ ἐτυμολογίᾳ, ἀπὸ τοῦ πρίνου πρίσαι, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ σχίνου σχίσαι, πρὸς ὃν δεδοκιμασμένην ἐπιστολὴν γράφει Ὠριγένης. Ἔστιν αὐτοῦ καὶ πρὸς Ἀριστείδην ἄλλη ἐπιστολὴ, ἐν ᾗ περὶ τῆς διαφωνίας τῆς δοκούσης εἶναι ἐν τῇ γενεαλογίᾳ τοῦ Σωτῆρος παρὰ Ματθαίου καὶ Λουκᾶ, ἀρκούντως διαλέγεται.