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as a thousand years,” and on the sixth day, as the scripture foretold, God formed man, and man fell into sin; so that it is clear that thus also on the sixth day of the millennium our Master Jesus Christ appeared on the earth, and saved man through the cross and the resurrection; which things Clement, Theophilus, and Timothy, the wise chronographers, wrote in agreement. And the most God-loving chronographer Eusebius Pamphili, who became bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, also says 229 that the Savior and Lord of all, Jesus Christ, appeared in the sixth millennium of years, according to the number of the six days of the creation of Adam; but before the six-thousandth year was completed, he said that our Lord and God Jesus Christ appeared on the earth to deliver the race of men; and he was born and became man, he says, in the year 5500; our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and rose again and ascended in the year 5533. But all agree that the Lord appeared in the six-thousandth year; therefore, whether more or less, they said he appeared in the 6000th year according to the prophetic voice, and though they do not agree in setting forth the number of the years, he appeared in the last times, as the divine scripture indicates. And during the reign of the same Augustus Caesar Sebastos, a city of Palestine named Salamina suffered from the wrath of God. This city the same Augustus raised up and called it the city of Zeus. And Herod the toparch, that is, king, of Judea was informed at that time that magi spies from Persia had entered the land of Judea; and he ordered them to be arrested. For magi came from Persia, having known, as mystics, through the appeared star which announced in the east the incarnation of the Savior Christ, bringing 230 gifts to him, as to a great king and victor. Who, having come into the east, were asking, Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? and these things were rumored among the Jews. These magi, having been identified, were arrested and brought to King Herod. And he asked them, Why have you come as spies to the land of Judea? And the magi reported to him the miracle of the star, and that a great king had been born to the world, and that we have come bringing gifts to him, as to a great king, to offer to him the gifts we carry, as to God. For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him. But Herod, hearing these things, was astonished, considering what power the king who had been born possessed, after Augustus Caesar. So the magi came to Jerusalem in the consulship of Vindicius and Valerius. So Herod inquired of them the exact time of the star's appearance, and said to the magi, If you find him, come and report it to me, so that I too may come and worship him. And the magi departed, led by the star which they had seen in the east, and found Jesus and his mother in the city of Bethlehem. And falling to the ground, they worshipped the Savior Christ; for they said among themselves that this star, which we honor as a god, is showing us his greater God. And having offered to him the gifts which they were carrying, as to God, and 231 having been warned, they went up by another way, that of the border, into the parts of Persia, having disdained King Herod. And when the same King Herod was mocked by the magi, he was enraged; and having inquired diligently from the chief priests of the Jews where the Christ is to be born, he learned. And sending the soldiers, he slew all the infants in Bethlehem, the city of Judea, as the divine scripture says. And immediately Herod, seized by an incurable disease, was eaten by worms and died, and Archelaus his son became king, that is, toparch, of the Jewish nation for 9 years,

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ὡσεὶ χίλια ἔτη,» τῇ δὲ ἕκτῃ ἡμέρᾳ, ὡς προεῖπεν ἡ γραφή, ἔπλασεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, καὶ ὑπέπεσε τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ὁ ἄνθρωπος· ὡς δῆλον εἶναι ὅτι οὕτω καὶ τῇ ἕκτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς χιλιάδος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐφάνη ὁ δεσπότης ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, καὶ ἔσωσε τὸν ἄνθρωπον διὰ τοῦ σταυροῦ καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως· ἅτινα συνεγράψατο Κλήμης, Θεόφιλος, καὶ Τιμόθεος, οἱ σοφοὶ χρονογράφοι, ὁμοφωνήσαντες. ὁ δὲ θεοφιλέστατος χρονογράφος Εὐσέβιος ὁ Παμφίλου ὁ γενόμενος ἐπίσκοπος Καισαρείας Παλαιστίνης τῇ μὲν ἕκτῃ χιλιάδι τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν λέγει καὶ 229 αὐτὸς φανῆναι τὸν ὅλων σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἓξ ἡμερῶν τῆς πλάσεως τοῦ Ἀδάμ· πρὸ τοῦ δὲ πληρωθῆναι τὸ ἑξακισχιλιοστὸν ἔτος εἶπεν ὅτι ἐφάνη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ θεὸς Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ῥύσασθαι τὸ γένος τῶν ἀνθρώπων· καὶ ἐγεννήθη καὶ ἐνηνθρώπησε, φησί, τῷ εφʹ ἔτει· ἔπαθε καὶ ἀνέστη ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ ἀνελήφθη τῷ εφλγʹ ἔτει. ἐν δὲ τῷ ἑξακισχιλιοστῷ ἔτει συμφωνοῦσιν ἅπαντες φανῆναι τὸν κύριον· κἂν οὖν πλέον κἂν ἔλασσον, εἰς τὸ ς ἔτος εἶπαν φανῆναι κατὰ τὴν προφητικὴν φωνήν, καὶ μὴ ὁμοφωνοῦσιν ἐκθέμενοι περὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐνιαυτῶν, ἐν ἐσχάτοις καιροῖς ἐφάνη, ὡς ἡ θεία γραφὴ σημαίνει. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ Αὐγούστου Καίσαρος σεβαστοῦ ἔπαθεν ὑπὸ θεομηνίας πόλις τῆς Παλαιστίνης ὀνόματι Σαλαμίνη. ἥντινα πόλιν ἐγείρας ὁ αὐτὸς Αὔγουστος ἐπεκάλεσε ∆ιὸς πόλιν. Ἡρώδης δὲ ὁ τοπάρχης, ἤτοι βασιλεύς, τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ χρόνῳ ἐδιδάχθη ὅτι κατάσκοποι μάγοι ἀπὸ Περσίδος εἰσῆλθον εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν χώραν· καὶ ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς συσχεθῆναι. ἦλθον γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς Περσίδος μάγοι, γνόντες, ὡς μυστικοί, διὰ τοῦ φανέντος ἀστέρος τοῦ μηνύσαντος εἰς τὴν ἀνατολὴν τὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος Χριστοῦ ἐνανθρώπησιν, δῶρα φέρον 230 τες αὐτῷ, ὡς βασιλεῖ μεγάλῳ καὶ νικητῇ. οἵτινες εἰς τὴν ἀνατολὴν ἐλθόντες ἐπηρώτων, Ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ τεχθεὶς βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων; καὶ ἐθρυλήθησαν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις. οἵτινες μάγοι γνωσθέντες συνεσχέθησαν καὶ εἰσηνέχθησαν τῷ Ἡρώδῃ βασιλεῖ. καὶ ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτούς, ∆ιὰ τί ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν χώραν ἐγένεσθε κατάσκοποι; καὶ ἀνήγαγον αὐτῷ οἱ μάγοι τὸ τοῦ ἀστέρος θαῦμα, καὶ ὅτι μέγας βασιλεὺς ἐγεννήθη τῷ κόσμῳ, καὶ ὅτι δῶρα αὐτῷ ἐνεγκόντες παρεγενόμεθα, ὡς βασιλεῖ μεγάλῳ, προσενέγκαι αὐτῷ ἃ ἐπιφερόμεθα δῶρα, ὡς θεῷ. εἴδομεν γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὸν ἀστέρα ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ, καὶ ἤλθομεν προσκυνῆσαι αὐτῷ. ὁ δὲ Ἡρώδης ἀκούσας ταῦτα ἔκθαμβος ἔμεινε, λογιζόμενος ὅτι μετὰ Αὔγουστον Καίσαρα ποίας ἐστὶ δυνάμεως ὁ γεννηθεὶς βασιλεύς. ἦσαν οὖν ἐλθόντες οἱ μάγοι ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐν ὑπατείᾳ Οὐϊνδικίου καὶ Οὐαλερίου. ἠκριβώσατο οὖν παρ' αὐτῶν ὁ Ἡρώδης τὸν χρόνον τοῦ φανέντος ἀστέρος, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς τοῖς μάγοις ὅτι Ἐὰν εὕρητε αὐτόν, ἐλθόντες ἀπαγγείλατέ μοι, ὅπως κἀγὼ ἐλθὼν προσκυνήσω αὐτῷ. καὶ ἀπελθόντες οἱ μάγοι, ὁδηγούμενοι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀστέρος, οὗ ἑωράκασιν ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ, ηὗρον τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ ἐν Βηθλεὲμ τῇ πόλει. καὶ πεσόντες εἰς τὸ ἔδαφος τῆς γῆς προσεκύνησαν τῷ σωτῆρι Χριστῷ· ἔλεγον γὰρ ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι τὸν μείζονα αὐτοῦ θεὸν ὑποδεικνύει ἡμῖν οὗτος ὁ ἀστήρ, ὃν ἡμεῖς τιμῶμεν, ὡς θεόν. καὶ προσενέγκαντες αὐτῷ δῶρα ἅπερ ἐβάσταζον, ὡς θεῷ, καὶ 231 χρηματισθέντες, δι' ἄλλης ὁδοῦ, τῆς τοῦ λιμίτου, ἀνῆλθον εἰς τὰ Περσικὰ μέρη, καταφρονήσαντες τοῦ Ἡρώδου βασιλέως. Καὶ ὡς παιχθεὶς ὁ αὐτὸς Ἡρώδης βασιλεὺς ὑπὸ τῶν μάγων ἐθυμώθη· καὶ περιεργασάμενος ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρχιερέων τῶν Ἰουδαίων ποῦ ὁ Χριστὸς γεννᾶται, ἔμαθε. καὶ πέμψας τοὺς στρατιώτας ἔσφαξε πάντα τὰ νήπια ἐν Βηθλεὲμ τῇ πόλει τῆς Ἰουδαίας, καθὼς ἡ θεία λέγει γραφή. καὶ ληφθεὶς εὐθέως ὁ Ἡρώδης πάθει ἀνιάτῳ σκωληκόβρωτος ἐγένετο καὶ ἀπέθανε, καὶ ἐγένετο βασιλεύς, ἤτοι τοπάρχης, τοῦ Ἰουδαικοῦ ἔθνους Ἀρχέλαος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη θʹ,