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governing. When a great famine occurred throughout Greece, a modius of grain was sold for six drachmas. At that time also an altar was inscribed by the Athenians to an unknown god. From the first apology of Justin, philosopher and martyr, to the emperor Antoninus, on behalf of the Christians After the ascension of the Lord into heaven, the demons put forward certain men who said they were gods, who not only were not persecuted by you, but were even deemed worthy of honors, such as a certain Simon, a Samaritan from a village called Gitta, who in the time of Claudius Caesar, by the art of the 406 demons working in him, performed magical feats in your city, the queen city Rome, was considered a god, and was honored by you with a statue as a god on the river Tiber between the two bridges, bearing this Roman inscription: Simoni Deo Sancto, which is, To Simon the holy god, and nearly all Samaritans, and a few in other nations, confess and worship him as the first god, and they say a certain Helen, who traveled about with him at that time, and who had formerly stood in a brothel in Tyre of Phoenicia, was the first thought from him.

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Euodius, 29 years Bishop of Alexandria Mark the evangelist, 2 years The remaining years of Claudius of the Romans Claudius reigned over the Romans for 13 years after Gaius, a murderous man, the uncle of the same Gaius, who bravely subjugated the Celts and Britons by arms, and likewise the Thracians, after their king Rhoemetalces was killed by his own wife. This man, having fallen in love with his own niece, was the first to legislate, as they say, that men could marry their brothers' daughters. In his time, many men skilled in Greek learning flourished, of whom the most notable seemed to be Apollonius of Tyana in Italy, trained to the highest degree in Pythagorean philosophy, so that he engaged in it more demonically 407 than Pythagoras himself, as Philostratus and other careful historians relate concerning him. In these times the bird called the phoenix appeared, as the Egyptians relate, having appeared 650 years before, as Dexippus also agrees. At that time also Laodicea and Hierapolis of Asia and other cities, and Antioch, were shaken by earthquakes. In his reign, Felix was sent to govern Judea, and when many Jews, among others, were deceiving the people, among whom was also the Egyptian false prophet, who, along with thirty thousand men attempting greater things, was defeated by the strategy of Felix. Josephus agrees in this with the Acts of the Apostles, where it is said by the tribune to the divine Paul: "Are you not then the Egyptian who before these days stirred up a sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men?" In his reign, Paul, having been accused by the Jews, made his defense. In his reign, a sedition of the Jews occurred in Caesarea of Strato, and many were killed. In his reign, the famine prophesied by Agabus came upon the whole world, and then particularly upon Judea, during which Helena, queen of the nation of Adiabene, having bought grain from Egypt for a great price, distributed it to the needy; whose conspicuous monuments are found in the suburban areas, according to Josephus. The Acts agree, relating that the faithful in Antioch, each according to his ability, sent aid to the faithful living in Judea by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. In the time of Claudius, Eusebius says in the second book of his Ecclesiastical Histories, in the time of the first Agrippa, also called Herod, as the Acts 408 say, "that Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church," "and he killed the brother of John with the sword," about whom Clement also says in the seventh book of the Hypotyposes, that the one who brought him into the court, seeing him bear witness, confessed along with him that he too was a Christian. They were therefore both led away together, he says, along the road, and he asked to be forgiven

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ἡγεμονεύοντος. Λιμοῦ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γεγονότος μεγάλου ὁ τοῦ σίτου μόδιος ἓξ δι δράχμων ἐπράθη. Τότε καὶ Ἀθηναίοις ἐπεγράφη βωμὸς ἀγνώστῳ θεῷ. Ἰουστίνου φιλοσόφου καὶ μάρτυρος ἐκ τοῦ αʹ λόγου πρὸς Ἀντώνιον βασιλέα ὑπὲρ Χριστιανῶν Μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν τοῦ κυρίου εἰς οὐρανοὺς προεβάλλοντο οἱ δαίμονες ἀνθρώπους τινὰς λέγοντας ἑαυτοὺς εἶναι θεούς, οἳ οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐδιώχθη σαν ὑφ' ὑμῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τιμῶν ἠξιώθησαν, Σίμωνα μέν τινα Σαμαρέα τὸν ἀπὸ κώμης λεγομένης Γιτθίων, ὃς ἐπὶ Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος διὰ τῆς τῶν 406 ἐνεργούντων δαιμόνων τέχνης δυνάμεις μαγικὰς ποιήσας ἐν τῇ πόλει ὑμῶν, τῇ βασιλίδι πόλει Ῥώμῃ, θεὸς ἐνομίσθη καὶ ἀνδριάντι παρ' ὑμῶν ὡς θεὸς τετίμηται ἐν τῷ Τίβερι ποταμῷ μεταξὺ τῶν δύο γεφυρῶν, ἔχων ἐπιγραφὴν Ῥωμαϊκὴν ταύτην· Σίμωνι δέω σάγκτω, ὅπερ ἐστὶ Σίμωνι θεῷ ἁγίῳ, καὶ σχεδὸν μὲν πάντες Σαμαρεῖς, ὀλίγοι δὲ καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις ἔθνε σιν ὡς τὸν πρῶτον θεὸν ἐκεῖνον ὁμολογοῦντες προσκυνοῦσι καὶ Ἑλένην τινὰ συμπερινοστήσασαν αὐτῷ κατ' ἐκεῖνο τοῦ καιροῦ, πρότερον ἐπὶ τέγους σταθεῖσαν ἐν Τύρῳ τῆς Φοινίκης, τὴν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ πρώτην ἔννοιαν λέγουσι.

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Εὐόδιος ἔτη κθʹ Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἔτη βʹ Τὰ ὑπόλοιπα Ῥωμαίων Κλαυδίου ἔτη Κλαύδιος Ῥωμαίων ἔτη ιγʹ μετὰ Γάιον ἐβασίλευσε, φονικὸς ἀνήρ, θεῖος τοῦ αὐτοῦ Γαΐου, ὃς Κελτοὺς καὶ Βρεττανοὺς ὅπλοις ἀνδρείως ὑπηγάγετο, ὁμοίως καὶ Θρᾷκας, ἀναιρεθέντος αὐτῶν τοῦ βασιλέως Ῥυμετάλκου ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας γαμετῆς. Οὗτος ἐρασθεὶς ἀδελφιδῆς οἰκείας ἐνομοθέτησε πρῶτος, ὥς φασι, θυ γατέρας ἀδελφῶν ἄγεσθαι. Ἐπὶ τούτου πολλοὶ τῶν ἐν παιδεύσει λόγων Ἑλληνικῶν ἤκμαζον, ὧν ἐπισημότερος ἐδόκει ὁ ἐκ Τυάνων τῆς Ἰταλίας Ἀπολλώνιος, Πυθαγορικῆς εἰς ἄκρον ἠσκημένος φιλοσοφίας, ὡς καὶ αὐτοῦ Πυθαγόρου δαιμονιώτε 407 ρον ἅψασθαι, καθὰ Φιλόστρατος καὶ ἄλλοι τῶν ἀκριβούντων ἱστοροῦσι τὰ κατ' αὐτόν. Ἐν τούτοις τοῖς χρόνοις ἐφάνη τὸ ὄρνεον ὁ φοίνιξ, καθὼς ἱστοροῦσιν Αἰγύπτιοι, πρὸ χνʹ δὲ ἐτῶν φανείς, ὡς καὶ ∆έξιππος συμφωνεῖ. Τότε καὶ Λαοδίκεια καὶ Ἱεράπολις τῆς Ἀσίας καὶ ἄλλαι πόλεις, Ἀντιόχειά τε κατεσείσθησαν. Ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ Φίλιξ Ἰουδαίας ἡγεμονεύειν σταλεὶς πολλῶν καὶ ἄλλων Ἰουδαίων ἀπατώντων, ἐν οἷς καὶ ὁ Αἰγύπτιος ψευδοπροφήτης, ἅμα τρισ μυρίοις μείζοσιν ἐπιχειρῶν πράγμασι, τῇ Φίλικος κατελύθη στρατηγίᾳ. συμφωνεῖ Ἰώσηππος ἐν τούτῳ ταῖς πράξεσι τῶν ἀποστόλων, ἔνθα τῷ θείῳ Παύλῳ ὑπὸ τοῦ χιλιάρχου λέλεκται· οὐκ ἄρα σὺ εἶ ὁ Αἰγύπτιος ὁ πρὸ τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀναστατώσας καὶ ἐξαγαγὼν εἰς τὴν ἔρημον τοὺς τετρακισχιλίους ἄνδρας; ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ Παῦλος ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων κατηγορηθεὶς τὴν ἀπολογίαν πεποίηται. Ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ Ἰουδαίων στάσις γέγονεν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ Στράτωνος καὶ πολ λοὶ διεφθάρησαν. Ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ ὁ κατὰ Ἄγαβον λιμὸς τῆς οἰκουμένης καὶ ὁ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ἔπειτα ἰδίως καταλαβών, καθ' ὃν Ἑλένη τοῦ Ἀδιαβηνῶν ἔθνους βασίλισσα σῖτον πολλῶν χρημάτων ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ὠνησαμένη τοῖς ἀποροῦσι διένειμεν· ἧς αἱ στῆλαι διαφανεῖς κατὰ τόπους προαστείους φέρονται, ὡς Ἰώσηππος. Συμφωνοῦσιν αἱ πράξεις τοὺς κατὰ Ἀντιόχειαν ἱστοροῦσαι πιστούς, καθ' ὅ τι ἄν τις εἶχεν, ἀποστεῖλαι τοῖς οἰκοῦσι τὴν Ἰουδαίαν πιστοῖς διὰ χειρὸς Βαρναβᾶ καὶ Σαύλου. Ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις Κλαυδίου φησὶν Εὐσέβιος ἐν δευτέρῳ τῶν ἐκκλησιαστι κῶν ἱστοριῶν, ἐπὶ τοῦ πρώτου Ἀγρίππα τοῦ καὶ Ἡρώδου, καθὼς αἱ πρά 408 ξεις φασίν, ὅτι ἐπέβαλεν Ἡρώδης ὁ βασιλεὺς τὰς χεῖρας κακῶσαί τινας τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, ἀνεῖλε δὲ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰωάννου μαχαίρᾳ, περὶ οὗ καὶ Κλήμης ἐν ζʹ τῶν Ὑποτυπώσεών φησιν, ὅτι ὁ εἰσαγαγὼν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον ἰδὼν αὐτὸν μαρτυρήσαντα συνωμολόγησεν αὐτῷ καὶ αὐτὸς εἶναι Χριστιανός. συναπήχθησαν οὖν ἄμφω, φησί, κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν καὶ ἠξίωσεν ἀφεθῆναι