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of great arrogance, for which reason he was also called dictator, which is monarch. And having conquered all things, in audacity and tyranny for 18 years he was slain in the senate. He gave laws to the Romans, and invented the leap year, and renamed the month July, which was previously called Quintilis. In his time was also Judas the Galilean, who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, and Antipater, the father of Herod, was established as king of Judea. After Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar reigned, son of Octavius, who was also Sebastos, for 50 years; from whom the emperors of the Romans were called Sebastos and Augustus, and the month was called August, previously named Sextilis. In the 42nd year of his reign our Lord Jesus Christ was born. And in the 41st year of his reign, in the year 5500 from the creation of the world, and Herod from the gentiles was already proclaimed king of Judea. And when our Lord Jesus Christ was born according to the flesh and Herod had evilly departed this life, the saying was fulfilled, "a ruler shall not fail from Judah, until he comes for whom it is reserved," who is Christ. Now this Herod had for himself three sons with the same and different names: Herod Antipas, who also beheaded the Forerunner, in whose time the Lord was also crucified; Herod Philip, to whom Herodias was first joined and bore a daughter Salome, who danced; and Herod Antipater who also killed James the son of Zebedee, who, while haranguing the people who were shouting "the voice of a god and not of a man," immediately paid the penalty; for an angel of the Lord immediately struck him down, and he leaped up from his seat as his belly was being terribly torn apart. But his accuser, seeing the divine James being led on the road to death, repented and fell at the feet of the apostle, saying, "Forgive me, man of God, for I have repented of what I said against you." And the blessed one, kissing him, said to him, "Peace to you, child, peace to you, and forgiveness for the offense." And he immediately, with a loud voice, proclaimed himself a Christian before all, and thus being numbered with the one accused by him, he carried off with him the prize of martyrdom. But the wretched Herod, being eaten by worms for days and spewing them forth, ended his life pitiably, just like his most impious father. After Augustus, Tiberius his son reigned for 23 years, who, having founded a city in Judea, called it by his own name, Tiberias. In the 15th year of his reign our Lord was baptized and began the preaching of the gospel. And in the 18th 26 year he was crucified and rose on the 25th of the month of Phamenoth, that is, March, of the first-created month called Nisan by the Hebrews, as Sunday was dawning. But why has the resurrection of the Lord been named the eighth? Because we find the resurrection of the dead seven times in the divine scripture, and after the seven, the Lord rose from the dead as the eighth. For before the resurrection of Christ, in the Old [Testament], the first was that of the son of the widow, whom Elijah raised in Zarephath, 2nd, that of the son of the Shunammite, whom Elisha raised, 3rd, that of the soldier, who, being buried near Elisha and coming near the bones of the prophet, leaped out as if from a fire, 4th, in the New [Testament], that of the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue, 5th, that of the son of the widow, 6th, that of Lazarus, 7th, when many bodies of the sleeping saints were raised, and 8th, the resurrection of the Lord after the saving passion. This man, caring for justice, always wrote to the cities under him, saying, "If I write anything ordering it to be done contrary to the laws, it is not to be heeded; for I have done so in ignorance." But later, alas, having suddenly changed to a worse opinion, he turned to every unholy deed, bloodshed, and frenzy, and thus ended his life. After Tiberius, Gaius his son reigned for 4 years, who at first managed the affairs of the kingdom magnanimously and treated his subjects fittingly, but later, after two years, 27 departing from human understanding in imitation of his father, he deified himself and statues

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πολλῆς ὑπερηφανίας, ὅθεν καὶ δικτάτωρ ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅ ἐστι μονάρχης. πάντων δὲ κρατήσας ἐν ἰταμότητι καὶ τυραννίδι ἐπὶ ἔτη ιηʹ ἀνῃρέθη ἐπὶ συγκλήτου. ὃς νόμους Ῥωμαίοις ἔδωκεν, καὶ τὸν βίσεκτον ἐφεῦρε, καὶ τὸν μῆνα Ἰούλιον μετωνόμασε, πρότερον Κυντίλλιον καλούμενον. ἐφ' οὗ ἦν καὶ Ἰούδας ὁ Γαλιλαῖος ὁ ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι τῶν ἀποστόλων μνημονευόμενος, καὶ Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Ἡρώδου πατὴρ βασιλεὺς τῆς Ἰουδαίας κατέστη. Μετὰ δὲ Ἰούλιον Καίσαρα ἐβασίλευσεν Αὔγουστος Καῖσαρ Ὀκταβίου υἱός, ὃς καὶ Σεβαστός, ἔτη νʹ· ἀφ' οὗ Σεβαστοὶ καὶ Αὔγουστοι προσηγορεύθησαν οἱ Ῥωμαίων βασιλεῖς, καὶ ὁ μὴν Αὔγουστος ἐκλήθη, πρότερον Σεξτίλιος ὀνομαζόμενος. ἐν τῷ μβʹ ἔτει τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐγεννήθη ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός. ἐν δὲ τῷ μαʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου ἔτει εφʹ, καὶ Ἡρώδης ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἤδη βασιλεὺς τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἀνηγόρευται. τοῦ δὲ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ κατὰ σάρκα γεννηθέντος καὶ τοῦ Ἡρώδου κακῶς τὸν βίον μεταλλάξαντος πεπλήρωται τὸ "οὐκ ἐκλείψει ἄρχων ἐξ Ἰούδα, ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀπόκει 25 ται," ὅς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός. ὁ δέ γε Ἡρώδης ἔσχεν αὑτῷ υἱοὺς ὁμωνύμους καὶ διωνύμους τρεῖς, Ἡρώδην Ἀντίπαν τὸν καὶ τὸν πρόδρομον ἀποτεμόντα, ἐφ' οὗ καὶ ὁ κύριος ἐσταυρώθη, Ἡρώδην Φίλιππον, ᾧ πρῶτον Ἡρωδιὰς συναφθεῖσα ἔτεκε θυγατέρα Σαλώμην τὴν ὀρχησαμένην, καὶ Ἡρώδην Ἀντίπατρον τὸν καὶἸάκωβον ἀνελόντα τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου, ὃς ἐν τῷ δημηγορεῖν τοῦ δήμου φωνοῦντος "φωνὴ θεοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἀνθρώπου" δίκην ἔδωκεν αὐτίκα· ἄγγελος γὰρ κυρίου εὐθὺς τοῦτον ἀθρόως ἐπάταξεν, καὶ ὃς ἀνεπήδησε τῆς καθέδρας ἐν τῷ δεινῶς τὴν γαστέρα αὐτοῦ σπαράττεσθαι. τὸν δέ γε θεῖον Ἰάκωβον ἰδὼν ἀπαγόμενον τὴν ἐπὶ θάνατον ὁδὸν ὁ κατήγορος αὐτοῦ καὶ μεταμεληθεὶς προσέπεσε τοῖς ποσὶ τοῦ ἀποστόλου λέγων "συγχώρησόν μοι, ἄνθρωπε τοῦ θεοῦ, ὅτι μεταμεμέλημαι ἐφ' οἷς ἐλάλησα κατὰ σοῦ." ὁ δὲ μακάριος τοῦτον καταφιλήσας εἶπεν αὐτῷ "εἰρήνη σοι, τέκνον, εἰρήνη σοι, καὶ συγχώρησις τοῦ πταίσματος." ὁ δὲ μετὰ φωνῆς μεγάλης εὐθέως Χριστιανὸν ἑαυτὸν ἐπὶ πάντων ἀνηγόρευσε, καὶ οὕτως συγκαταριθμηθεὶς τῷ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κατηγορηθέντι σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ βραβεῖον τοῦ μαρτυρίου ἀπηνέγκατο. ὁ δέ γε ἄθλιος Ἡρώδης ἐπὶ ἡμέρας φθειρόμενος καὶ σκώληκας ἐκβράζων ἐλεεινῶς τὸν βίον κατέλυσεν, ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ δυσσεβέστερος αὐτοῦ πατήρ. Μετὰ δὲ Αὔγουστον ἐβασίλευσε Τιβέριος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη κγʹ, ὃς κτίσας πόλιν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὴν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα Τιβεριάδα. οὗ τῷ ιεʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν βαπτισθεὶς τοῦ εὐαγγελικοῦ κηρύγματος ἀπήρξατο. ἐν δὲ τῷ ιηʹ 26 σταυρωθεὶς ἀνέστη τῇ κεʹ τοῦ Φαμενὼθ μηνὸς ἤτοι Μαρτίου, τοῦ πρωτοκτίστου μηνὸς Νισὰν παρ' Ἑβραίοις λεγομένου, ἐπιφωσκούσης κυριακῆς. διὰ τί δὲ ὀγδόη ἡ τοῦ κυρίου ἀνάστασις ἐπωνόμασται; ἐπειδὴ ἑπτάκις νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν εὕρομεν ἐν τῇ θείᾳ γραφῇ καὶ μετὰ τοὺς ζʹ ὄγδοος ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνέστη ὁ κύριος. πρὸ γὰρ τῆς Χριστοῦ ἀναστάσεως ἐν τῇ παλαιᾷ πρώτη γέγονεν ἡ τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς χήρας, ὃν Ἠλίας ἐν Σαράφθοις ἀνέστησεν, βʹ ἡ τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς Σουμανίτιδος, ὃν Ἐλισσαῖος ἤγειρεν, γʹ ἡ τοῦ στρατιώτου, ὃς ἐγγὺς Ἐλισσαίου ταφεὶς καὶ τοῖς ὀστέοις τοῦ προφήτου πλησιάσας ὡς ἀπὸ πυρὸς ἐξεπήδησεν, δʹ ἐν τῇ καινῇ ἡ τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ ἀρχισυναγώγου, εʹ ἡ τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς χήρας, ʹ ἡ τοῦ Λαζάρου, ζʹ ὅτε πολλὰ σώματα τῶν κεκοιμημένων ἁγίων ἠγέρθη, ηʹ δὲ ἡ τοῦ κυρίου ἀνάστασις μετὰ τὸ σωτήριον πάθος. οὗτος φροντίζων τοῦ δικαίου ἔγραφεν ἀεὶ ταῖς ὑπ' αὐτὸν πόλεσι λέγων "ἐάν τι γράψω παρὰ τοὺς νόμους προστάσσων γίνεσθαι, τούτῳ μὴ προσεκτέον· ἠγνόηκα γάρ." ἀλλ' ὕστερον, φεῦ, αἰφνίδιον εἰς τὴν χείρονα μεταβληθεὶς γνώμην πρὸς πᾶσαν ἀνοσιουργίαν μιαιφονίαν τε καὶ οἰστρηλασίαν ἐτράπη, καὶ οὕτω τὸν βίον κατέστρεψεν. Μετὰ δὲ Τιβέριον ἐβασίλευσε Γάϊος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη δ', ὃς πρῶτον μὲν μεγαλοφρόνως διεῖπε τὰ τῆς βασιλείας πράγματα καὶ τοῖς ὑπηκόοις καθηκόντως ἐκέχρητο, ὕστερον δὲ μετὰ δύο χρόνους 27 ἐκστὰς τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φρονήσεως κατὰ μίμησιν τοῦ πατρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἀπεθέωσεν καὶ ἀνδριάντας