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in the fourth year of his reign, more or less, friendship of the Romans towards the Jews and an alliance being sent and a procurator being established 2.289 and portions of tribute being paid to the Romans * for five years, more or less, until Judaea was completely handed over and became tributary to them, when the rulers from Judah ceased and Herod, from the nations, was established, a proselyte however, then, when Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judaea and came to his preaching, when the anointed leaders from Judah and Aaron ceased, who had lasted until Alexander, the anointed leader, and Salina, who is also Alexandra; at which time the prophecy of Jacob was fulfilled, that “A ruler shall not fail from Judah, nor a leader from his loins, until he comes for whom it is reserved, and he is the expectation of nations,” which is the Lord who was born. All these things were fulfilled, beginning from the birth in Bethlehem, which happened in the forty-second year of the entire reign of Augustus, which was after the fifth year of the procuratorship of Antipater, the father of Herod, when there was friendship of the Romans towards the Jews and portions of gifts, and after the procuratorship of Antipater, from the sixth of Augustus until his ninth, and Herod being established from the tenth year, and a portion of tribute being given until the thirteenth year, which was the fourth year of the reign of Herod, who was established by Augustus; and after the fourth year of Herod, Judaea being finally and completely handed over. until the thirty-third year of Herod, and when Augustus had completed forty-two years, all of Judaea having been seized, as I said, 2.290 after he had made it tributary to the Romans for twenty-nine years, and after Antipater, Herod's father, was established as procurator, and after Herod was established as king over Judaea by Augustus in the tenth year of that same Augustus. ˉα. And these things were transacted in the thirteenth consulship of Octavius Augustus and the consulship of Silanus, as I have often said, which consulship was succeeded by the below-listed consulships in order, thus: ˉβ. Of Lentulus and Piso. ˉγ. Of Lucius Caesar and Paulus. ˉδ. Of Vindicius and Varus. ˉε. Of Lamius and Servilius Nonnius. ˉ. Of Magnus Pompeius and Valerius. ˉζ. Of Lepidus and Arruntius. ˉη. Of Caesar and Capito. ˉθ. Of Creticus and Nerva. ˉι. Of Camillus and Quintillianus. ˉιˉα. Of Camerinus and Sabinus. ˉιˉβ. Of Dolabella and Silanus. ˉιˉγ. Of Lepidus and Taurus. 2.291 ˉιˉδ. Of Flaccus and Silanus. ˉιˉε. Of the two Sexti. ˉιˉ. Of Pompeius Magnus and Appuleius. ˉιˉζ. Of Brutus and Flaccus. ˉιˉη. Of Taurus and Libo. ˉιˉθ. Of Crassus and Rufus. ˉκ. Of Tiberius Caesar for the second time and Drusus Germanus for the second time. ˉκˉα. Of Silanus and Balbus. ˉκˉβ. Of Messala and Gratus. ˉκˉγ. Of Tiberius Caesar for the third time and Drusus Germanus for the third time ˉκˉδ. Of Agrippa and Galba. ˉκˉε. Of Pollio and Vetus. ˉκˉ. Of Cethegus and Varus. ˉκˉζ. Of Agrippa for the second time and Lentulus Galba. ˉκˉη. Of Gaetulicus and Sabinus. ˉκˉθ. Of Crassus and Piso. ˉλ. Of Silanus and Nerva. 23. And you see that it is a period of thirty years, for which reason we have taken care to set down the successive consulships accurately, so that those who read may see that there is nothing fabricated in the divine dogma of the truth, but that all things have been preached to the church with accuracy, For who, having counted the consulships which cannot be mistaken in their sequence, will not condemn those who think there is a discrepancy in the number of years 2.292 sung by the evangelists? For on this account also fell the former heresies concerning Valentinus and certain others, which mythically described the thirty aeons, which they supposed to correspond to the years of the Savior, so that forsooth they might be able to describe the myth-making of their aeons and principalities. is found

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