The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
This paragraph has Adam for its first word and Abraham for its last. Between the creation of the former and the birth of the latter were 2000 years, almost the one-half of which time Adam himself lived. Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:1-27
After Tiras, the Targum adds, "And the names of their countries were Africa, and Germany, and Media, and Macedonia, Bithynia, and Maesia, and Thrace." And in another copy, "Germany, Getia, and Media, and Ephesus, Bithynia, and Maesia, and Thrace."
1Ch 1:5-23 The peoples and races descended from the sons of Noah. - These are enumerated according to the table in Gen 10; ; but our author has omitted not only the introductory and concluding remarks (Gen 10:1, Gen 10:21, Gen 10:32), but also the historical notices of the founding of a kingdom in Babel by Nimrod, and the distribution of the Japhetites and Shemites...
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 1:5-23