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YEAR OF THE WORLD 5597 Years of the divine incarnation 77 Irenaeus and other historians report that John the theologian and apostle remained in this life until the time of Trajan; after whom Papias of Hierapolis and Polycarp of Smyrna, bishops, his hearers, were known. 5th bishop of Jerusalem, Tobias, for 4 years.

425 YEAR OF THE WORLD 5600 Years of the divine incarnation 100 The remaining of the Romans 11th

years of Trajan. The Jews in Libya and Cyrene and Egypt and Alexandria and the Thebaid, having warred against the Greeks living with them, were destroyed. Antioch collapsed while Trajan was present. Trajan ordered Lusius Quietus of Mesopotamia to destroy those who had revolted. And he, having killed many myriads of Jews, was for this reason appointed governor of Judaea. The Jews, having killed the Greeks in Salamis of Cyprus, razed the city. The senate voted Trajan a god. Trajan died from a disease, according to Eusebius in Selinus, but according to others in Seleucia of Isauria from dysentery. 7th bishop of the Romans, Xystus, for 9 years. 5th bishop of Alexandria, Primus, for 12 years. 6th bishop of Jerusalem, Benjamin, for 2 years. 7th bishop of Jerusalem, John, for 2 years. 8th bishop of Jerusalem, Matthias, for 2 years.

YEAR OF THE WORLD 5609 Years of the divine incarnation 109 The 12th of the Romans reigned

Aelius Hadrian, for 21 years. Quadratus, the sacred hearer of the apostles, presented to Aelius Hadrian the emperor words of apology on behalf of the Christians, relating thus somehow, 426 in which he said: For the works of our Savior were always present; for they were true. Those who were healed and those who were raised from the dead were not only seen being healed and being raised, but also being always present, not only while the Savior was visiting, but also after he had departed they were present for a considerable time, so that some of them even reached our own times. To this same Hadrian, Aristides the Athenian, a philosopher, also addressed a similar appeal on behalf of the Christians, which Caesar accepted, along with those from Serenus, the most illustrious governor, who wrote that it was unjust to kill Christians without a trial on the basis of no crimes, Hadrian writes to Minucius Fundanus, proconsul of Asia, to kill no one without crimes and accusation. Hadrian punished the Jews who were rioting against the Alexandrians. Hadrian cancelled the debts owed by the cities under him belonging to the public treasury, burning the papers. The same man granted many taxes to the Romans, for which reason the senate voted him a god. The same man restored with money Nicomedia, which had collapsed in an earthquake, and Nicaea, cities of Bithynia. The same man, at the request of the Athenians, compiled laws from those of Draco and Solon, having wintered in Athens and been initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries and having bridged Eleusis which was flooded by the Cephisus river. Plutarch of Chaeronea, the philosopher, was appointed by the emperor to be procurator of Greece in his old age. Sextus the philosopher and Agathobulus and Oenomaus were well-known. The Sauromatae were subdued in war. The Jews in Libya and Egypt were destroyed by war. Hadrian sent a colony to Libya which had been desolated. Hadrian was proclaimed father of his country and his wife Augusta. 8th bishop of Rome, Telesphorus, for 10 years. 427 4th bishop of Antioch, Cornelius, for 13 years. 6th bishop of Alexandria, Justus, for 10 years. Nicopolis and Caesarea collapsed in an earthquake. 9th bishop of Jerusalem, Philip, for 2 years. 10th bishop of Jerusalem, Senecas, for 1 year. 11th bishop of Jerusalem, Justus, for 4 years. 12th bishop of Jerusalem, Levi, for 4 years.

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ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΦˉζΖ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη ζζʹ Ἰωάννην τὸν θεολόγον καὶ ἀπόστολον Εἰρηναῖος καὶ ἄλλοι ἱστοροῦσι παραμεῖναι τῷ βίῳ ἕως τῶν χρόνων Τραϊανοῦ· μεθ' ὃν Παπίας Ἱεραπολί της καὶ Πολύκαρπος Σμύρνης ἐπίσκοποι ἀκουσταὶ αὐτοῦ ἐγνωρίζοντο. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος εʹ Τωβίας ἔτη δʹ.

425 ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΧ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη ρʹ Τὰ ὑπόλοιπα Ῥωμαίων ιαʹ

Τραϊανοῦ ἔτη Ἰουδαῖοι κατὰ Λιβύην καὶ Κυρήνην καὶ Αἴγυπτον καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν καὶ Θηβαΐδα πολεμήσαντες πρὸς τοὺς συνοικοῦντας Ἕλληνας διεφθάρησαν. Ἀντιόχεια κατεπτώθη παρόντος Τραϊανοῦ. Τραϊανὸς Λυσίῳ Κύντῳ τῆς Μεσοποταμίας ἐξᾶραι τοὺς στασιάσαντας ἐκέλευσεν. ὁ δὲ πολλὰς μυριάδας Ἰουδαίων ἀνελὼν ἡγεμὼν τῆς Ἰουδαίας διὰ τοῦτο καθίσταται. Τοὺς ἐν Σαλαμῖνι τῆς Κύπρου Ἕλληνας Ἰουδαῖοι ἀνελόντες τὴν πόλιν κατέσκαψαν. Τραϊανὸν ἡ σύγκλητος θεὸν ἐψηφίσατο. Τραϊανὸς νόσῳ τελευτᾷ κατ' Εὐσέβιον ἐν Σελινοῦντι, κατὰ δὲ ἄλλους ἐν Σελευκείᾳ τῆς Ἰσαυρίας δυσεντερίᾳ. Ῥωμαίων ζʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ξύστος ἔτη θʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας εʹ ἐπίσκοπος Πρῖμος ἔτη ιβʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ςʹ ἐπίσκοπος Βενιαμὶν ἔτη βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ζʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης ἔτη βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ηʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ματθίας ἔτη βʹ.

ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΕΧΘ Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη ρθʹ Ῥωμαίων ιβʹ ἐβασίλευσεν

Ἀδριανὸς Αἴλιος ἔτη καʹ. Κοδρᾶτος ὁ ἱερὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἀκουστὴς Αἰλίῳ Ἀδριανῷ τῷ αὐτο κράτορι λόγους ἀπολογίας ὑπὲρ Χριστιανῶν ἐπέδωκεν, ὧδέ πως ἱστορῶν, 426 ἐν οἷς ἔφη· τοῦ δὲ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν τὰ ἔργα ἀεὶ παρῆν· ἀληθῆ γὰρ ἦν. οἱ θεραπευθέντες καὶ οἱ ἀναστάντες ἐκ νεκρῶν οὐκ ὤφθησαν μόνον θερα πευόμενοι καὶ ἀνιστάμενοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀεὶ παρόντες, οὐδὲ ἐπιδημοῦντος μόνον τοῦ σωτῆρος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπαλλαγέντος ἦσαν ἐπὶ χρόνον ἱκανόν, ὥστε καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἡμετέρους χρόνους τινὲς αὐτῶν ἀφίκοντο. τούτῳ καὶ Ἀρι στείδης Ἀθηναῖος φιλόσοφος ὑπὲρ Χριστιανῶν ἀκόλουθα τῷ αὐτοκράτορι προσεφώνησεν Ἀδριανῷ, ἅπερ δεξάμενος ὁ Καῖσαρ σὺν τοῖς παρὰ Σερε νίου λαμπροτάτου ἡγουμένου, ὡς ἄδικον εἴη κτείνειν γράψαντος Χρι στιανοὺς ἀκρίτως ἐπὶ μηδενὶ τῶν ἐγκλημάτων, γράφει Μινουκίῳ Φου νάνῳ ἀνθυπάτῳ τῆς Ἀσίας Ἀδριανὸς μηδένα κτείνειν ἄνευ ἐγκλημάτων καὶ κατηγορίας. Ἀδριανὸς Ἰουδαίους κατὰ Ἀλεξανδρέων στασιάζοντας ἐκόλασεν. Ἀδριανὸς χρεῶν ὀφειλὰς τῶν ὑπ' αὐτὸν πόλεων ἀνηκούσας τῷ δημοσίῳ λόγῳ ἀπέκοψε, καύσας τοὺς χάρτας. Ὁ αὐτὸς Ῥωμαίοις φόρους πολλοὺς ἐχαρίσατο, ὅθεν ἡ σύγκλητος θεὸν αὐτὸν ἐψηφίσατο. Ὁ αὐτὸς Νικομήδειαν σεισμῷ καταπτωθεῖσαν καὶ Νίκαιαν πόλεις Βι θυνίας χρήμασιν ἀνεστήσατο. Ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀθηναίοις ἀξιώσασιν ἐκ τῶν ∆ράκοντος καὶ Σόλωνος νόμους ἐπισυνέταξε, χειμάσας εἰς Ἀθήνας καὶ μυηθεὶς τὰ Ἐλευσίνια καὶ γεφυρώσας Ἐλευσῖνα κατακλυσθεῖσαν ὑπὸ Κηφισοῦ ποταμοῦ. Πλούταρχος Χαιρωνεὺς φιλόσοφος ἐπιτροπεύειν Ἑλλάδος ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτο κράτορος κατεστάθη γηραιός. Σέξτος φιλόσοφος καὶ Ἀγαθόβουλος καὶ Οἰνόμαος ἐγνωρίζετο. Σαυρομάται κατεπολεμήθησαν. Ἰουδαῖοι κατὰ Λιβύην καὶ Αἴγυπτον διεφθάρησαν πολέμῳ. Ἀποικίαν εἰς Λιβύην ἐρημωθεῖσαν Ἀδριανὸς ἔπεμψεν. Ἀδριανὸς πατὴρ πατρίδος καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Σεβαστὴ ἀνηγορεύθη. Ῥώμης ηʹ ἐπίσκοπος Τελεσφόρος ἔτη ιʹ. 427 Ἀντιοχείας δʹ ἐπίσκοπος Κορνήλιος ἔτη ιγʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ςʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰοῦστος ἔτη ιʹ. Νικόπολις καὶ Καισάρεια σεισμῷ κατεπτώθησαν. Ἱεροσολύμων θʹ ἐπίσκοπος Φίλιππος ἔτη βʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ιʹ ἐπίσκοπος Σενέκας ἔτος αʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ιαʹ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰοῦστος ἔτη δʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ιβʹ ἐπίσκοπος Λευὶς ἔτη δʹ.