Discourse on the Angels or Spirits of Empires

...history touches upon this: which relates that some of those gods of theirs contended among themselves for Attica A reference to the mythological contest between the gods Athena and Poseidon for the patronage of Athens.. But the poets, those fashioners of gods, also introduce gods who take particular delight in certain places. And foreign history, especially that of the Egyptians, demonstrates something similar concerning the distribution of Egypt's administrative districts, when it says that to that Minerva The Roman name for the Greek goddess Athena; she was often associated by ancient writers with the Egyptian goddess Neith. who was allotted Sais An ancient Egyptian city in the Nile Delta, a center of the cult of Neith/Athena., Attica also fell by lot. Egyptian priests bring forth six hundred similar stories, and perhaps they will even include the region of the Jews in that distribution, as if it fell to some guardian; and they will say that their own region was divided in that manner.

But enough of these things for now, insofar as they are treated outside of the divine scriptures; let us say also that God’s Prophet and true servant Moses, in the Song of Deuteronomy, chapter 32, sang these things concerning the division of the earth: When the Most High divided the nations, when he dispersed the sons of Adam, he established the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the Angels of God; and the Lord’s portion was his people Jacob: Israel was the cord of his inheritance. The author is quoting the Septuagint (Greek) version of Deuteronomy 32:8-9, which mentions the "Angels of God" where the standard Hebrew text says "sons of Israel." Furthermore, concerning what is said in Genesis, chapter 11, about the confusion of the original language and the scattering of peoples across the face of the whole earth, etc., he believes that each of those who created their own language was led away by Angels into different parts of the earth.

Some were pulled away into burning and scorching regions; others into that region which plagues its inhabitants with excessive cold; some into a hard land difficult to cultivate, while others were moved into a gentler one; some into a place swarming with wild beasts, and others into a place freer from the harm of beasts. If anyone can then consider these things according to the manner of history—which contains an actual event but also reveals something hidden—let him notice that those who preserved that first language Referring to the belief that Hebrew was the original language spoken before the Tower of Babel. did so because they did not withdraw from the East, but remained in the East and in the language of the East. And he should observe that these alone were called the portion of the Lord and his people Jacob, and the cord of his inheritance, Israel; and these alone are governed by a ruler who did not receive his subjects for punishment, as others did.