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and to John after the ascension to lead the rest of the apostles the Lord commanded, so that they might not contend for glory; who also first chose the same James for Jerusalem, as Clement says in the sixth book of the Hypotyposes; and the same one also says in accord in the seventh book thus: The Lord handed over the knowledge to James the Just and to John and to Peter after the resurrection. These handed it over to the rest, and the rest of the apostles to the seventy, of whom one was the first bishop James the brother of the Lord of the church in Jerusalem.

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of Christ, year 34. In those same days the disciples asked the Lord on the Mount of Olives: "Are you at this time restoring the kingdom to Israel?" In the same year James the brother of the Lord is appointed first bishop of Jerusalem by the apostles. There were two Jameses, the brother of the Lord, being a son of Joseph, the one called the Just, concerning whom Paul also says: "But I saw none of the other apostles except James the brother of the Lord," who, having been thrown from the pinnacle by the Jews, was struck with a fuller's club and so met his end, and the other, who was beheaded, the brother of John the Theologian. First, Matthias, one of the seventy disciples of the Lord, is chosen for the apostolate by lot, through the prayer and laying on of hands of the blessed apostles, in place of Judas the betrayer. Seven in number, it seems to me, were appointed by the apostles for the service of the brethren. of whom the first was Stephen the protomartyr, who after the Savior was stoned by the deicides and worthily received the eponymous crown on his behalf. Third foreigner over the Jews, Herod son of Herod, for 24 years. In the same year Pilate, after the uprising of the Jews because of the images of Caesar, spent the so-called corban, that is, the sacred treasury, on the construction of an aqueduct, and again forced them into rebellion. And this same Pilate, having reported to Tiberius the things concerning the Savior, also moved him to a love of faith in the Christian doctrine, and Tiberius consulted with the senate concerning faith in Christ. But when it 399 was not persuaded, but considered the preaching of the cross foolishness, he himself decreed death against the persecutors of the Christians, as Tertullian relates. Sejanus, the prefect of Tiberius Caesar, gave much counsel to Caesar concerning the complete destruction of the nation of the Jews, as Philo the Jew, living in Alexandria, relates in the second book of his embassy concerning them. Gaius deifies himself. The same man, having taken the wife of Memmius Regulus, forced her own husband Memmius to say that he was her father. In Jerusalem under Herod the tetrarch, a plot against the apostles and the whole church.

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temple going up healed the man lame from birth.

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Sapphira in Jerusalem done by Peter. Thomas and Judas sent Thaddeus to Edessa according to a divine oracle to preach the gospel. who, having healed Abgar in the word of the Lord, just as the Savior had also written to him beforehand, sending also his holy image, saying that "after I have been taken up, I will send to you some of my 400 disciples, that they may heal your suffering and grant life to you and yours," and enlightened all those there by words and deeds; whom the whole city reveres to this day, venerating the same lordly image not made by hands.

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καὶ Ἰωάννῃ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν τῶν λοιπῶν ἀποστόλων ἡγεῖσθαι προσέταξεν ὁ κύριος, ὡς ἂν μὴ ἐπιδικάζοιν το δόξης· οἳ καὶ πρῶτον Ἱεροσολύμων εἵλαντο τὸν αὐτὸν Ἰάκωβον, ὥς φησι Κλήμης ἐν ἕκτῳ τῶν Ὑποτυπώσεων· ὁ δ' αὐτὸς καὶ ἐν ζʹ συνῳδά φησιν ὧδε· Ἰακώβῳ τῷ δικαίῳ καὶ Ἰωάννῃ καὶ Πέτρῳ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν παρ έδωκε τὴν γνῶσιν ὁ κύριος. οὗτοι τοῖς λοιποῖς παρέδωκαν, οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἀπόστολοι τοῖς οʹ, ὧν εἷς ἦν πρῶτος ἐπίσκοπος Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀδελφόθεος τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας.

398 ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦΛ∆ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ

Χριστοῦ ἔτη λδʹ Κατὰ τὰς αὐτὰς ἡμέρας οἱ μαθηταὶ ἐπηρώτων τὸν κύριον ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῶν ἐλαιῶν· εἰ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τούτῳ ἀποκαθιστάνεις τὴν βασιλείαν τῷ Ἰσραήλ; Τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀδελφόθεος πρῶτος ἐπίσκοπος Ἱεροσολύμων ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων καθίσταται. ∆ύο ἦσαν Ἰάκωβοι, ὅ τε ἀδελφόθεος υἱὸς ὢν τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ὁ λεγόμενος δίκαιος, περὶ οὗ καὶ Παῦλός φησιν· «ἕτερον δὲ τῶν ἀποστόλων οὐκ εἶδον εἰ μὴ Ἰάκωβον τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ κυρίου», ὃς κατὰ τοῦ πτερυγίου βληθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων ξύλῳ πληγεὶς γναφικῷ τελειοῦται, καὶ ἕτερος ὁ ἐκτμηθεὶς τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀδελφὸς Ἰωάννου τοῦ θεολόγου. Πρῶτος εἰς ἀποστολὴν Ματθίας εἷς τῶν οʹ μαθητῶν τοῦ κυρίου κλη ροῦται δι' εὐχῆς καὶ ἐπιθέσεως χειρῶν τῶν μακαρίων ἀποστόλων ἀντὶ Ἰούδα τοῦ προδότου. Ἑπτὰ τὸν ἀριθμόν, δοκεῖ μοι, πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων κατεστάθησαν. ὧν πρῶτος ἦν Στέφανος ὁ πρωτομάρτυς ὁ μετὰ τὸν σωτῆρα παρὰ τῶν κυριοκτόνων λιθοβοληθεὶς καὶ τὸν φερώνυ μον ἀξίως ὑπενεγκάμενος στέφανον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ. Ἰουδαίων γʹ ἀλλόφυλος Ἡρώδης υἱὸς Ἡρώδου ἔτη κδʹ. Τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει Πιλᾶτος μετὰ τὴν στάσιν Ἰουδαίων διὰ τὰς Καίσαρος εἰκόνας τὸν λεγόμενον κορβωνᾶν ἤτοι ἱερὸν θησαυρὸν εἰς ὑδάτων κατ αγωγὴν ἐδαπάνησε, καὶ αὖθις στασιάζειν ἠνάγκαζεν. Ὁ δ' αὐτὸς Πιλᾶτος Τιβερίῳ τὰ κατὰ τὸν σωτῆρα ἀναγαγὼν καὶ τοῦ Χριστιανῶν δόγματος ἐκίνησεν εἰς ἔρωτα πίστεως, Τιβέριός τε πρὸς τὴν σύγκλητον ἐκοινολογήσατο περὶ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως. τῆς δὲ μὴ 399 πειθομένης, ἀλλὰ μωρίαν ἡγουμένης τὸ κήρυγμα τοῦ σταυροῦ, ὁ αὐτὸς θάνατον ἐψηφίσατο κατὰ τῶν διωκτῶν τῶν Χριστιανῶν, ὡς Τερτυλλιανὸς ἱστορεῖ. Σηιανὸς ἔπαρχος Τιβερίου Καίσαρος περὶ τελείας ἀπωλείας τοῦ ἔθνους τῶν Ἰουδαίων πολλὰ συνεβούλευσε τῷ Καίσαρι, ὡς Φίλων Ἰουδαῖος ἐξ Ἀλεξανδρείας διάγων ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῆς περὶ αὐτῶν πρε σβείας. Γάιος ἑαυτὸν ἀποθεοῖ. ὁ αὐτὸς τὴν γυναῖκα Μεμμίου Ῥηγούλου λαβὼν πατέρα ταύτης τὸν ἴδιον ἄνδρα Μέμμιον λέγειν εἶναι ἠνάγκασεν. Ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπὶ Ἡρώδου τοῦ τετράρχου κατὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῆς ὅλης ἐκκλησίας ἐπιβουλή.

ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦΛΕ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη λεʹ Πέτρος καὶ Ἰωάννης εἰς τὸ

ἱερὸν ἀνιόντες τὸν ἐκ γενετῆς χωλὸν ἐθερά πευσαν. ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦΛΣ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη λςʹ Τὰ κατὰ τὸν Ἀνανίαν καὶ

Σαπφείραν ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ πραχθέντα Πέτρῳ. Θωμᾶς Θαδδαῖον εἰς Ἔδεσαν καὶ Ἰούδας κατὰ θεῖον χρησμὸν ἐξέπεμψαν εὐαγγελίσασθαι. ὃς τόν τε Αὔγαρον ἰασάμενος ἐν λόγῳ κυρίου, καθὼς καὶ προέγραψεν αὐτῷ ὁ σωτὴρ πέμψας καὶ τὸν ἅγιον αὐτοῦ χαρακτῆρα, λέγων ὅτι «μετὰ τὸ ἀναληφθῆναί με ἀποστέλλω σοὶ τινὰς τῶν μαθητῶν 400 μου, ἵνα ἰάσωνταί σου τὸ πάθος καὶ ζωήν σοι καὶ τοῖς σοῖς παράσχωσι», καὶ τοὺς αὐτόθι πάντας ἐφώτισε λόγοις καὶ ἔργοις· ὃν ἡ πόλις ἅπασα μέχρι νῦν εὐσεβεῖ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀχειροποίητον δεσποτικὸν σέβουσα χαρακτῆρα.