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Africanus, therefore, in accordance with the apostolic tradition, having dated the divine incarnation in the year 5500, erred by two years concerning the passion and the saving resurrection, placing it in the year 5531 of the world. But Eusebius of Pamphilus, following the Hebrew, shortening the years from Adam until the birth of Abraham, which is acknowledged to be in the time of Ninus and Semiramis, kings of the Assyrians, enumerated 3184 years, and not enumerating the second Cainan, who lived 130 years before begetting a child, whom 396 the divine evangelist Luke mentions in his genealogy, as has been said elsewhere. But this our own chronicle contains 3032 years from Adam to the birth of Abraham, in accordance with the divine writing of Moses and the genealogies of the gospel according to Luke. and from the birth of Abraham until the saving cross and the life-giving resurrection it reckoned 2048 years, which according to the true account has been calculated by us as 2221 years. The total years from Adam are 5533, but according to Eusebius 5232, which is entirely alien to the apostolic tradition; which he has suffered from such a miscalculation, in addition to the 130 years of Cainan and the 111 years of the foreigners among the judges, having omitted the 40 years of anarchy and peace, and also the 11 years of Darius, also called Astyages. But a certain Panodorus, one of the monks in Egypt, a historian not inexperienced in chronological accuracy, who flourished in the times of the emperor Arcadius and Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria, while embracing the truth in many things, erred by 7 years, arriving at the saving incarnation by calculating it in the year 5493. And the cause of his error was this: For since the first year of Philip Arrhidaeus, who reigned over the Macedonians after Alexander the Macedonian, in which year Claudius Ptolemy also established the calculation of the handy tables, the beginning of the Egyptian and Greek year on the first of the month called Thoth by the Egyptians, being the 29th of the month of August, a fixed date, is admittedly coeval with the year 5170 of the world, and from the same first year of Philip until the deposition of Cleopatra 294 years are added according to the astronomical canons, from the same world year 5170 there are 5463 years from Adam until the deposition of Cleopatra according to this, which does not accord with the ecclesiastical tradition, with respect to the 43rd year of Augustus Caesar, when our Lord was incarnate. For Augustus is said by the mathematicians to have reigned only 43 years from the same deposition and subjugation of Egypt, which if we grant to be true, Augustus will be found to have died in the year 5505 of the 397 world. This would be the 5th year of the Savior's age. But it is manifest that at the death of Augustus Caesar the Lord was nearly 15 years old, and in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar he was about 30 years old, as the oracles say, and this is evident. Therefore, the death of Augustus Caesar will be somewhere between the world year 5514 and 5515, and the beginning of his whole reign in 5458. But Panodorus, following the mathematical edition, enumerated the beginning of Augustus's reign in the year of the world 5451, the end in 5506, and the saving birth in 5493, not having thought it through well.

YEAR OF THE WORLD 5534 Years of the divine incarnation 34 On the first day of this

year, on March 25, on the Lord's day, our Lord and God Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third day, and appeared first to the myrrh-bearing women, then to the apostles, whom He also sent to all the nations to teach the doctrines concerning the holy and consubstantial Trinity, having ascended into heaven on the 40th day, May 3, and having sent down to them the Paraclete Spirit on the holy 50th day, distributing to them tongues of fire and the other divine gifts. To Peter and James the brother of God

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Ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀφρικανὸς συμφώνως τῇ ἀποστολικῇ παραδόσει τῷ εφʹ ἔτει τὴν θείαν χρονολογήσας σάρκωσιν, περὶ τὸ πάθος καὶ τὴν σωτήριον ἀνάστασιν δυσὶν ἔτεσι διήμαρτε, κατὰ τὸ εφλαʹ ἔτος τοῦ κόσμου ταύτην συναγαγών. Εὐσέβιος δὲ ὁ Παμφίλου τὰ ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως Ἀβραὰμ γενέσεως, ἣ κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους Νίνου καὶ Σεμιράμεως τῶν Ἀσσυρίων βασιλέων ὡμολόγηται, συντεμὼν ἔτη γρπδʹ ἐστοιχείωσε τῷ Ἑβραϊκῷ ἐξακολουθήσας καὶ τὸν δεύτερον Καϊνᾶν ἔτη ρλʹ ζήσαντα πρὸ τῆς τεκνώσεως μὴ στοιχειώσας, οὗ 396 ὁ θεῖος εὐαγγελιστὴς Λουκᾶς μέμνηται ἐν τῇ κατ' αὐτὸν γενεαλογίᾳ, ὡς καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ λέλεκται. τὸ δὲ καθ' ἡμᾶς τοῦτο χρονογράφιον ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως γενέσεως Ἀβραὰμ ἔτη γλβʹ περιέχει συμφώνως τῇ θείᾳ Μωυσέως γραφῇ καὶ ταῖς γενεαῖς τοῦ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγελίου. καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς γεν νήσεως Ἀβραὰμ ἕως τοῦ σωτηρίου σταυροῦ καὶ τῆς ζωοποιοῦ ἀναστάσεως βμηʹ ἔτη συνῆξεν, ἅτινα κατὰ τὸν ἀληθῆ λόγον ἔτη βσκαʹ ἡμῖν ἐπιλε λόγισται. ἔτη δὲ τὰ πάντα ἐξ Ἀδὰμ εφλγʹ, κατὰ δὲ Εὐσέβιον εσλβʹ, ὅπερ ἀλλότριον πάντη τῆς ἀποστολικῆς παραδόσεως· ὃ καὶ ἐκ παραλογι σμοῦ τοιοῦδε πέπονθε πρὸς τοῖς ρλʹ τοῦ Καϊνᾶν ἔτεσι καὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς κρι ταῖς ἀλλοφύλων ἔτη ριαʹ, παραλείψας τά τε τῆς ἀναρχίας καὶ εἰρήνης ἔτη μʹ καὶ ἔτι τὰ ∆αρείου τοῦ καὶ Ἀστυάγους ἔτη ιαʹ. Πανόδωρος δέ τις τῶν κατ' Αἴγυπτον εἷς μοναχός, ἱστορικὸς οὐκ ἄπει ρος χρονικῆς ἀκριβείας, ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις ἀκμάσας Ἀρκαδίου βασιλέως καὶ Θεοφίλου Ἀλεξανδρείας ἀρχιεπισκόπου, ἀλήθειαν ἀσπασάμενος ἐν πολλοῖς, ζʹ διήμαρτεν ἔτεσιν, ἐλθὼν εἰς τὴν σωτήριον σάρκωσιν τῷ ευζγʹ ἔτει ταύτην συλλογισάμενος. ἡ δὲ αἰτία τοῦ σφάλματος αὐτοῦ γέγονεν οὕτως· ἐπεὶ γὰρ τὸ πρῶτον ἔτος Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀριδαίου τοῦ μετὰ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Μακεδόνα βασιλεύσαντος Μακεδόνων αʹ, καθ' ὃ ἔτος καὶ ὁ Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος τὴν τῶν προχείρων κανόνων ψηφηφορίαν ἐπήξατο, ἀρχὴν Αἰγυπτιακοῦ καὶ Ἑλληνικοῦ ἔτους κατὰ τὴν πρώτην τοῦ Θὼθ μη νὸς παρ' Αἰγυπτίοις λεγομένου, κθʹ τοῦ Αὐγούστου μηνὸς οὖσαν ἀπο καταστατικήν, ὁμόχρονον ὁμολογουμένως ἐστὶ τῷ εροʹ ἔτει τοῦ κόσμου, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρώτου ἔτους Φιλίππου μέχρι τῆς καθαιρέσεως Κλεο πάτρας ἔτη κατὰ τοὺς ἀστρονομικοὺς κανόνας ἐπισυνάγεται ςζδʹ, ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ εροʹ κοσμικοῦ ἔτους ἔτη γίνονται ευξγʹ ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως καθ αιρέσεως Κλεοπάτρας κατὰ τοῦτο, ὅπερ οὐ συνᾴδει τῇ ἐκκλησιαστικῇ παραδόσει, ὡς πρὸς τὸ μγʹ ἔτος Αὐγούστου Καίσαρος, ἡνίκα ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν ἐσαρκώθη. μόνα γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς καθαιρέσεως καὶ ὑποταγῆς Αἰγύπτου μγʹ ἔτη λέγεται βεβασιλευκέναι παρὰ τοῖς μαθηματικοῖς ὁ Αὔγουστος, ὅπερ εἰ δῶμεν ἀληθεύειν, εὑρεθήσεται κατὰ τὸ εφεʹ ἔτος τοῦ 397 κόσμου τελευτήσας ὁ Αὔγουστος. τὸ δ' αὐτὸ εʹ ἔσται τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡλικίας. ἀλλ' ὅτι μέν ἐστι πρόδηλον, ὅτι δὲ κατὰ τὸν Αὐγούστου Καίσαρος θάνατον ιεʹ ἐγγὺς ἦγεν ἔτος ὁ κύριος καὶ κατὰ τὸ ιεʹ ἔτος Τιβερίου Καίσα ρος ὡσεὶ ἐτῶν ἦν λʹ, ὡς τὰ λόγια, καὶ τοῦτο προφανές. ἔσται ἄρα ὁ μὲν Αὐγούστου Καίσαρος θάνατος μεταξύ που τοῦ εφιδʹ κοσμικοῦ ἔτους καὶ τοῦ εφιεʹ, ἡ δὲ ἀρχὴ τῆς ὅλης βασιλείας αὐτοῦ τῷ ευνηʹ. Πανόδωρος δὲ τῇ μαθηματικῇ ἐξακολουθῶν ἐκδόσει τὴν μὲν ἀρχὴν τῆς Αὐγούστου βασιλείας τῷ ευναʹ ἔτει τοῦ κόσμου ἐστοιχείωσε, τὸ δὲ τέλος τῷ εφςʹ, τὴν δὲ σωτήριον γέννησιν τῷ ευζγʹ, οὐ καλῶς δια νοησάμενος.

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