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YEAR OF THE WORLD 5537 Years of the divine incarnation 37 In this year, a persecution against the church occurred and many of the faithful were scattered, to whom James, the Lord's brother, wrote his first catholic epistle, inscribing it to those in the diaspora. And Stephen the great protomartyr, apostle and protodeacon was killed by stones; Saul was he who after these things was converted by a divine vision. At the same time, with our savior Jesus Christ cooperating, Paul the great apostle was changed, and having been enlightened in Damascus by Ananias, came as a fugitive to Tarsus, teaching the word of God, and from there again to Antioch. Philip, one of the seven appointed along with the protomartyr to the diaconate by the apostles, being among those who were scattered, went down from Jerusalem to Samaria and was filled with divine power, so that Simon the magician, being astounded at his miracles, approached together with his companions and was discipled to Philip and baptized deceitfully. Whence also those from him, who until now pretend to be baptized, are entirely alien to the divine commandments and doctrines, not accepting the doctrine of the resurrection nor saying that the visible world is God's, but pursuing every God-abhorred shameful deed. To these wretched people he delivered himself to be called father, 401 and to be worshipped with an icon in the name of Zeus, and he taught that the prostitute with him, Helen, should be worshipped instead of Athena, likewise with the same icon. But to the Jews he said that he himself was Christ and not the father. First bishop of the church in Jerusalem, James the Lord's brother, for 28 years. 4th emperor of the Romans, Gaius Caligula, for 3 years.

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Gaius Caesar, having fallen into various misfortunes, as those who have written Roman history say, became his own murderer. Gaius Caligula, grandson of Tiberius, having unjustly killed many of the senate, the same who exiled his own sisters to islands, the same who killed those in exile, was later killed by distinguished men in the army. He also killed Julius Canus, one of the Stoic philosophers, about whom a paradoxical tale has been fabricated for the Greeks, as I think. For being led away to his death, he is said to have calmly foretold to one of his companions, Antiochus by name, a Seleucian who was following him, that he would meet him on that same night after his departure and would discuss something worthy of consideration, and that after three days Rectus, one of his companions, would be killed by Gaius. And these things came to pass, with the one being killed on the third day, and Antiochus relating the vision of the night, that Julius Canus appeared and explained the things concerning the permanence of the soul and a purer light after its departure. Plutarch of Chaeronea records these things. 4th foreign ruler of the Jews, Agrippa son of Herod, for 7 years. 402 OF THE WORLD, YEAR 5539 Years of the divine incarnation 39 Agrippa, son of Herod, having been imprisoned under Tiberius Caesar because of the accusations against his own father, and having been released from his bonds by Gaius Caesar, is sent out as king of the Jews. But Herod, his father, having been exiled in Lugdunum of Gaul, dies in extreme poverty with Herodias the adulteress. For the earth swallowed alive the maiden who danced at the beheading of the great prophet, forerunner and baptist John. Flaccus Ancylius, prefect of Egypt, subjected the Jewish nation to all kinds of calamities. Gaius ordered Petronius, the prefect of Syria, to set up a statue of himself, called Zeus Epiphanes, in Jerusalem. Philo records in his work entitled Flaccus, that he undertook an embassy to Gaius concerning the Jews, on whose behalf Flaccus, plotting against the Jews with dedications of icons and statues and altars, defiled the synagogues. then also the people of the Alexandrians

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ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦΛΖ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη λζʹ Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει διωγμοῦ κατὰ τῆς ἐκκλησίας γενομένου πολλοὶ μὲν τῶν πιστῶν διεσπάρησαν, πρὸς οὓς πρώτην ἔγραψε καθολικὴν ἐπιστολὴν Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀδελφόθεος, τοῖς ἐν τῇ διασπορᾷ τοῦτο ἐπιγράψας. Στέφανος δὲ ὁ μέγας πρωτομάρτυς ἀπόστολος καὶ πρωτοδιάκονος λίθοις ἀνῃρέθη Σαύλου τοῦ μετὰ ταῦτα διὰ θεοπτίας ἐπιστρέψαντος. Κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον συνεργοῦντος τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χρι στοῦ Παῦλος μεταβληθεὶς ὁ μέγας ἀπόστολος καὶ ἐν ∆αμασκῷ φωτισθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἀνανίου φυγὰς ἧκεν εἰς Ταρσὸν διδάσκων τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ, κἀ κεῖθεν πάλιν εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν. Φίλιππος εἷς τῶν ζʹ σὺν τῷ πρωτομάρτυρι προχειρισθέντων εἰς δια κονίαν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐν τοῖς διασπαρεῖσι γενόμενος, ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ κατελθὼν εἰς Σαμάρειαν δυνάμεως θείας ἐπληρώθη, ὥστε καὶ Σίμωνα τὸν μάγον καταπλαγέντα τοῖς θαύμασιν αὐτοῦ προσελθεῖν ἅμα τοῖς ἑταί ροις καὶ τῷ Φιλίππῳ μαθητευθῆναί τε καὶ βαπτισθῆναι δολερῶς. ὅθεν καὶ οἱ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ μέχρι νῦν ὑποκρινόμενοι βαπτίζεσθαι πάντη τῶν θείων ἐντολῶν καὶ δογμάτων εἰσὶν ἀλλότριοι, μὴ δεχόμενοι τὸν περὶ ἀναστάσεως λόγον μηδὲ τὸν ὁρώμενον κόσμον θεοῦ λέγοντες εἶναι, πᾶσαν θεοβδέ λυκτον αἰσχρουργίαν μετερχόμενοι. τούτοις ἑαυτὸν μὲν πατέρα καλεῖσθαι 401 τοῖς ἀθλίοις παραδέδωκεν, εἰκόνι τε ∆ιὸς ὀνόματι προσκυνεῖσθαι, τὴν δὲ σὺν αὐτῷ πόρνην Ἑλένην ἀντὶ Ἀθηνᾶς προσκυνεῖσθαι ἐδίδαξεν ὁμοίως τῇ αὐτῇ εἰκόνι. Ἰουδαίοις δὲ Χριστὸν ἑαυτὸν ἔλεγεν εἶναι καὶ οὐχὶ πατέρα. Τῆς ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐκκλησίας πρῶτος ἐπίσκοπος Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀδελφόθεος ἔτη κηʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς δʹ Γάιος Καλλιγούλας ἔτη γʹ.

ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦΛΖ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη λζʹ Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος ἐπὶ

Γαΐου Καίσαρος ποικίλαις περιπεσὼν συμφοραῖς, ὥς φασιν οἱ τὰ Ῥωμαίων συγγραψάμενοι, αὐτοφονευτὴς ἑαυτοῦ ἐγένετο. Γάιος Καλλιγούλας ἔκγονος Τιβερίου πολλοὺς ἀναιτίως τῆς γερουσίας ἀνελών, ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς ἰδίας ἀδελφὰς κατὰ νήσους φυγαδεύσας, ὁ αὐτὸς τοὺς ἐν ἐξορίαις ἀνελὼν ὕστερον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν στρατείαις ἐπισήμων ἀνῃρέθη. Οὗτος καὶ τὸν Ἰούλιον Κανὸν ἕνα τῶν Στωικῶν φιλοσόφων ἀνεῖλε, περὶ οὗ παράδοξον Ἕλλησιν, ὡς δοκῶ, πέπλασται. ἀπαγόμενος γὰρ πρὸς τὸ θανεῖν ἀταράχως λέγεταί τινι τῶν ἑταίρων Ἀντιόχῳ τοὔνομα Σελευκεῖ συνεπομένῳ προειπεῖν, ὡς ἐντεύξεται αὐτῷ κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν νύκτα μετὰ τὴν ἔξοδον καὶ διαπορήσει τι τῶν σπουδῆς ἀξίων, καὶ ὅτι μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας Ῥέκτος εἷς τῶν ἑταίρων ὑπὸ Γαΐου φονευθήσεται. ἃ καὶ γέγονε, τοῦ μὲν ἀναιρεθέντος τριταίου, τοῦ δὲ Ἀντιόχου τὴν ἐποψίαν εἰπόντος τῆς νυκτός, ὅτι φανεὶς Ἰούλιος Κανὸς τὰ περὶ διαμονῆς τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ καθαρω τέρας φωτὸς μετὰ τὴν ἔξοδον διηγήσατο. ταῦτα Πλούταρχος ὁ Χαιρω νεὺς ἱστορεῖ. Ἰουδαίων ἀλλόφυλος δʹ Ἡρώδου παῖς Ἀγρίππας ἔτη ζʹ. 402 ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦΛΘ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη λθʹ Ἀγρίππας Ἡρώδου παῖς ἐπὶ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος φρουρηθεὶς διὰ τὰς κατὰ τοῦ ἰδίου πατρὸς κατηγορίας καὶ ἀνεθεὶς τῶν δεσμῶν ὑπὸ Γαΐου Καίσαρος βασιλεὺς Ἰουδαίων ἐκπέμπεται. Ἡρώδης δὲ ὁ τούτου πατὴρ ἐν Λουγδόνῳ τῆς Γαλλίας ἐξορισθεὶς ἐν ἐσχάτῃ πενίᾳ σὺν Ἡρωδιάδι τῇ μοιχαλλίδι θνήσκει. τὴν γὰρ ὀρχησα μένην κόρην ἐπὶ τῆς ἀποτομῆς τοῦ μεγάλου προφήτου προδρόμου καὶ βαπτιστοῦ Ἰωάννου ζῶσαν κατέπιεν ἡ γῆ. Φλάγκος Ἀγκύλιος Αἰγύπτου ἔπαρχος παντοίαις συμφοραῖς τὸ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνος καθυπέβαλε. Γάιος ἀνδριάντα ἑαυτοῦ ∆ιὸς ἐπιφανοῦς καλουμένου ἐν τοῖς Ἱεροσολύ μοις ἀναθεῖναι Πετρωνίῳ τῷ Συρίας ἐπάρχῳ προσέταξε. Φίλων ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγεγραμμένῳ λόγῳ Φλάγκῳ, ὅτι πρεσβείαν ὡς περὶ Ἰουδαίων πρὸς Γάιον ἐποιήσατο, ὑπὲρ ὧν Φλάγκος Ἰουδαίοις ἐπιβουλεύων εἰκόνων καὶ ἀνδριάντων καὶ βωμῶν ἀναθέσεσι τὰς συναγωγὰς ἐμίανε. τότε καὶ ὁ τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων δῆμος