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Chronicle · Pages 188-33297

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under Augusti and Caesars,

427 years [379]

d Photinus dies in Galatia, from whom comes the Judaizing teaching of the Photinians. 1

e Basil of Caesarea, Bishop of Cappadocia, is considered important, who ruined many good qualities of continence and ingenuity by the one failing of pride.

289th Olympiad

13 f About 30,000 Alamanni laid low by Gratian's army at Argentaria, a town of the Gauls. 377

g The monks Florentinus, Bonosus, and Rufinus are considered notable, of whom Florentinus was so merciful to the needy that he was called by the crowd "Father of the Poor".

h The nation of the Huns devastate the Goths, who, having been received by the Romans without surrender of arms, were driven by hunger to have to rebel because of the greed of general Maximus. 2

(1) Jerome, like many heresiologists, always associates Photinus with Sabellius, Paul of Samosata and Judaism. He wants to show, by this association, that they're all heretics, but does not particularise each of them. Jerome usually explains that the common heresy of Photinus and Judaism is to think that Jesus was just a man who had been adopted by God as his son. Jerome knows that Photinus is not exactly a Monarchianist, but an Adoptianist. Benoît Jeanjean shows how Jerome presents Photinus, Paulus of Samosate and Sabellius in his book : Benoît Jeanjean, "Saint Jérôme et l'hérésie”, Paris, Etudes Augustiniennes, 1999, p. 168-177.

(2) The original manuscript of 'O' ends at this point. A single leaf (f.145) with a brief summary of events follows, in the same hand as the Tertullian scholion noted earlier. After this, the manuscript contains the Chronicle of Marcellinus.

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All the years are added up until the 6th consulate of the Emperor Valens and the second of the Emperor Valentinian the younger:

from the 15th year of Tiberius and the preaching of our Lord Jesus Christ:

351 years

from the second year of Darius, King of the Persians, in which period the temple at Jerusalem was restored

899 years

from the first Olympiad, in which time Isaiah was prophesying among the Hebrews

1,155 years

from Solomon and the first building of the Temple

1,411 years

from the capture of Troy, at which time Sampson was among the Hebrews

1,561 years

from Moses and Cecrops, first King of Attica

1,890 years

from Abraham and the reign of Ninus and Semiramis