WEBVTT 00:24.120 --> 00:26.780 BOOK III PART II. 00:27.100 --> 00:28.700 CHAPTER VII-XXI. 00:30.860 --> 00:31.840 CHAPTER VII. 00:32.340 --> 00:33.820 THE PREDICTIONS OF CHRIST. 00:35.560 --> 00:40.720 It is fitting to add to these accounts the true prediction of our Savior in which he 00:40.720 --> 00:42.180 foretold these very events. 00:43.920 --> 00:45.760 His words are as follows. 00:46.280 --> 00:50.700 Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 00:51.120 --> 00:55.520 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. 00:55.880 --> 01:00.140 For there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the 01:00.140 --> 01:02.940 world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 01:04.420 --> 01:09.500 The historian, reckoning the whole number of the slain, says that eleven hundred 01:09.500 --> 01:14.580 thousand persons perished by famine and sword, and that the rest of the rioters 01:14.580 --> 01:19.020 and robbers, being betrayed by each other after the taking of the city, were slain. 01:19.700 --> 01:23.480 But the tallest of the youths and those that were distinguished for beauty were 01:23.480 --> 01:24.860 preserved for the triumph. 01:25.860 --> 01:30.020 Of the rest of the multitude, those that were over seventeen years of age were sent 01:30.020 --> 01:34.540 as prisoners to labor in the works of Egypt, while still more were scattered 01:34.540 --> 01:38.460 through the provinces to meet their death in the theatres by the sword and by 01:38.460 --> 01:38.960 beasts. 01:39.520 --> 01:43.580 Those under seventeen years of age were carried away to be sold as slaves, 01:44.040 --> 01:46.800 and of these alone the number reached ninety thousand. 01:49.380 --> 01:53.820 These things took place in this manner in the second year of the reign of Vespasian, 01:54.280 --> 01:58.480 in accordance with the prophecies of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who by 01:58.480 --> 02:03.160 divine power saw them beforehand as if they were already present, and wept and 02:03.160 --> 02:07.220 mourned according to the statement of the holy evangelists, who gave the very words 02:07.220 --> 02:13.740 which he uttered, when, as if addressing Jerusalem herself, he said, If thou hadst 02:13.740 --> 02:16.780 known, even thou, in this day, the things which believe in thee, 02:16.780 --> 02:18.100 they belong unto thy peace. 02:18.640 --> 02:20.580 But now they are hid from thine eyes. 02:20.820 --> 02:24.820 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a rampart 02:24.820 --> 02:29.120 about thee, encompass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 02:29.440 --> 02:32.340 and shall lay thee and thy children even with the ground. 02:34.340 --> 02:39.040 And then, as if speaking concerning the people, he says, For there shall be great 02:39.040 --> 02:43.740 distress in the land, and wrath upon this people, and they shall fall by the edge of 02:43.740 --> 02:46.960 the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations. 02:47.320 --> 02:52.160 And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles 02:52.160 --> 02:52.920 be fulfilled. 02:53.240 --> 02:58.040 And again, when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the 02:58.040 --> 02:59.920 desolation thereof is nigh. 03:01.860 --> 03:06.720 If anyone compares the words of our Savior with the other accounts of the historian 03:06.720 --> 03:11.660 concerning the whole war, how can one fail to wonder, and to admit that the 03:11.660 --> 03:16.400 foreknowledge and the prophecy of our Savior were truly divine and marvelously 03:16.400 --> 03:17.060 strange? 03:19.040 --> 03:23.040 Concerning those calamities, then, that befell the whole Jewish nation after 03:23.040 --> 03:27.240 the Savior's passion and after the words which the multitude of the Jews uttered, 03:27.640 --> 03:31.520 when they begged the release of the robber and murderer, but besought that the prince 03:31.520 --> 03:36.260 of life should be taken from their midst, it is not necessary to add anything to the 03:36.260 --> 03:37.320 account of the historian. 03:39.500 --> 03:44.640 But it may be proper to mention also those events which exhibited the graciousness of 03:44.640 --> 03:49.720 that all-good providence, which held back their destruction full forty years after 03:49.720 --> 03:54.740 their crime against Christ, during which time many of the apostles and disciples, 03:55.100 --> 03:59.080 and James himself, the first bishop there, the one who is called the brother of the 03:59.080 --> 04:04.320 Lord, were still alive, and dwelling in Jerusalem itself, remained the surest 04:04.320 --> 04:05.440 bulwark of the place. 04:06.180 --> 04:11.180 Divine providence thus still proved itself long-suffering toward them, in order to 04:11.180 --> 04:15.520 see whether by repentance for what they had done, they might obtain pardon and 04:15.520 --> 04:16.020 salvation. 04:16.560 --> 04:21.340 And in addition to such long-suffering, providence also furnished wonderful signs 04:21.340 --> 04:25.200 of the things which were about to happen to them if they did not repent. 04:27.160 --> 04:31.180 Since these matters have been thought worthy of mention by the historian already 04:31.180 --> 04:35.600 cited, we cannot do better than to recount them for the benefit of the readers of 04:35.600 --> 04:36.080 this work. 04:37.900 --> 04:38.840 CHAPTER VIII. 04:39.220 --> 04:41.020 THE SIGNS WHICH PRECEDED THE WAR. 04:42.360 --> 04:47.000 Taking, then, the work of this author, read what he records in the sixth book of 04:47.000 --> 04:47.600 his history. 04:48.120 --> 04:49.720 His words are as follows. 04:50.120 --> 04:54.740 Thus were the miserable people won over at this time by the impostors and false 04:54.740 --> 04:59.600 prophets, but they did not give heed nor give credit to the visions and signs that 04:59.600 --> 05:01.380 foretold the approaching desolation. 05:01.380 --> 05:05.940 On the contrary, as if struck by lightning, and as if possessing neither 05:05.940 --> 05:09.900 eyes nor understanding, they slighted the proclamations of God. 05:11.840 --> 05:17.460 At one time a star, in form like a sword, stood over the city, and a comet, 05:17.700 --> 05:21.660 which lasted for the whole year, and again before the revolt and before the 05:21.660 --> 05:25.340 disturbances that led to the war, when the people were gathered for the 05:25.340 --> 05:30.080 feast of unleavened bread, on the eighth of the month Xanthicus, at the ninth hour 05:30.080 --> 05:34.500 of the night, so great a light shone about the altar and the temple that it seemed to 05:34.500 --> 05:37.500 be bright day, and this continued for half an hour. 05:37.880 --> 05:43.280 This seemed to the unskillful a good sign, but was interpreted by the sacred scribes 05:43.280 --> 05:46.660 as portending those events which very soon took place. 05:48.520 --> 05:53.460 And at the same feast a cow, led by the high priest to be sacrificed, brought 05:53.460 --> 05:55.660 forth a lamb in the midst of the temple. 05:57.120 --> 06:01.460 And the eastern gate of the inner temple, which was of bronze and very massive, 06:02.000 --> 06:06.520 and which at evening was closed with difficulty by twenty men and rested upon 06:06.520 --> 06:11.960 iron-bound beams, and had bars sunk deep in the ground, was seen at the sixth hour 06:11.960 --> 06:13.840 of the night to open of itself. 06:15.400 --> 06:19.140 And not many days after the feast, on the twenty-first of the month 06:19.140 --> 06:23.580 Artemisium, a certain marvellous vision was seen which passes belief. 06:24.080 --> 06:28.060 The prodigy might seem fabulous were it not related by those who saw it, 06:28.300 --> 06:31.640 and were not the calamities which followed deserving of such signs. 06:32.160 --> 06:36.580 For before the setting of the sun chariots and armed troops were seen throughout the 06:36.580 --> 06:41.080 whole region in mid-air, wheeling through the clouds and encircling the cities. 06:42.940 --> 06:46.540 And at the feast which is called Pentecost, when the priests entered the 06:46.540 --> 06:51.140 temple at night, as was their custom to perform the services, they said that at 06:51.140 --> 06:55.700 first they perceived a movement and a noise, and afterward a voice as of a great 06:55.700 --> 06:58.140 multitude saying, Let us go hence. 07:00.060 --> 07:02.580 But what follows is still more terrible. 07:02.940 --> 07:08.160 For a certain Jesus, the son of Ananias, a common countryman, four years before the 07:08.160 --> 07:12.700 war, when the city was particularly prosperous and peaceful, came to the 07:12.700 --> 07:16.820 feast, at which it was customary for all to make tents at the temple to the honour 07:16.820 --> 07:21.640 of God, and suddenly began to cry out, a voice from the east, a voice from the 07:21.640 --> 07:26.000 west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the temple, 07:26.380 --> 07:30.260 a voice against bridegrooms and brides, a voice against all the people. 07:30.920 --> 07:33.920 Day and night he went through all the alleys crying thus. 07:35.540 --> 07:39.880 But certain of the more distinguished citizens, vexed at the ominous cry, 07:40.320 --> 07:42.640 seized the man and beat him with many stripes. 07:43.200 --> 07:47.500 But without uttering a word in his own behalf, or saying anything in particular 07:47.500 --> 07:52.020 to those that were present, he continued to cry out in the same words as before. 07:53.640 --> 07:58.240 And the rulers, thinking, as was true, that the man was moved by a higher power, 07:58.620 --> 08:00.200 brought him before the Roman governor. 08:00.920 --> 08:05.260 And then, though he was scourged to the bone, he neither made supplication nor 08:05.260 --> 08:06.060 shed tears. 08:06.520 --> 08:10.920 But changing his voice to the most lamentable tone possible, he answered each 08:10.920 --> 08:14.160 stroke with the words, Woe, woe unto Jerusalem. 08:15.500 --> 08:19.820 The same historian records another fact still more wonderful than this. 08:20.200 --> 08:24.800 He says that a certain oracle was found in their sacred writings which declared that 08:24.800 --> 08:28.920 at that time a certain person should go forth from their country to rule the 08:28.920 --> 08:29.260 world. 08:29.580 --> 08:32.860 He himself understood that this was fulfilled in Vespasian. 08:33.980 --> 08:38.420 But Vespasian did not rule the whole world, but only that part of it which was 08:38.420 --> 08:39.380 subject to the Romans. 08:40.100 --> 08:44.500 With better right could it be applied to Christ, to whom it was said by the Father, 08:44.940 --> 08:48.220 Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, 08:48.760 --> 08:50.740 and the ends of the earth for thy possession. 08:51.540 --> 08:56.300 At that very time, indeed, the voice of his holy apostles went throughout all the 08:56.300 --> 08:58.860 earth, and their words to the end of the world. 09:00.720 --> 09:01.580 Chapter 9. 09:02.460 --> 09:08.620 Josephus and the Works Which He Has Left After all this, it is fitting that we 09:08.620 --> 09:12.160 should know something in regard to the origin and family of Josephus, 09:12.300 --> 09:15.320 who has contributed so much to the history in hand. 09:15.940 --> 09:20.860 He himself gives us information on this point in the following words, Josephus the 09:20.860 --> 09:25.600 son of Mattathias, a priest of Jerusalem, who himself fought against the Romans in 09:25.600 --> 09:29.160 the beginning, and was compelled to be present at what happened afterward. 09:30.800 --> 09:35.840 He was the most noted of all the Jews of that day, not only among his own people, 09:36.100 --> 09:40.660 but also among the Romans, so that he was honored by the erection of a statue in 09:40.660 --> 09:44.260 Rome, and his works were deemed worthy of a place in the library. 09:45.960 --> 09:51.000 He wrote the whole of the Antiquities of the Jews in twenty books, and a history of 09:51.000 --> 09:54.540 the war with the Romans which took place in his time in seven books. 09:55.300 --> 09:59.060 He himself testifies that the latter work was not only written in Greek, 09:59.380 --> 10:03.020 but that it was also translated by himself into his native tongue. 10:03.680 --> 10:07.720 He is worthy of credit here because of his truthfulness in other matters. 10:09.640 --> 10:13.900 There are extant also two other books of his which are worth reading. 10:14.400 --> 10:18.680 They treat of the Antiquity of the Jews, and in them he replies to Appion the 10:18.680 --> 10:23.580 Grammarian, who had at that time written a treatise against the Jews, and also to 10:23.580 --> 10:27.560 others who had attempted to vilify the hereditary institutions of the Jewish 10:27.560 --> 10:27.960 people. 10:29.660 --> 10:33.880 In the first of these books, he gives the number of the canonical books of the 10:33.880 --> 10:35.120 so-called Old Testament. 10:35.840 --> 10:39.960 Apparently drawing his information from ancient tradition, he shows what books 10:39.960 --> 10:42.320 were accepted without dispute among the Hebrews. 10:42.920 --> 10:44.500 His words are as follows. 10:46.560 --> 10:53.620 Chapter 10 The Manner in Which Josephus Mentions the Divine Books We have not, 10:53.800 --> 10:57.520 therefore, a multitude of books disagreeing and conflicting with one 10:57.520 --> 11:02.340 another but we have only twenty-two, which contain the record of all time and 11:02.340 --> 11:04.060 are justly held to be divine. 11:05.580 --> 11:10.240 Of these, five are by Moses, and contain the laws and the tradition respecting the 11:10.240 --> 11:13.980 origin of man, and continue the history down to his own death. 11:14.600 --> 11:17.460 This period embraces nearly three thousand years. 11:19.340 --> 11:24.120 From the death of Moses to the death of Artaxerxes, who succeeded Xerxes as king 11:24.120 --> 11:28.480 of Persia, the prophets that followed Moses wrote the history of their own times 11:28.480 --> 11:29.580 in thirteen books. 11:30.340 --> 11:34.880 The other four books contain hymns to God and precepts for the regulation of the 11:34.880 --> 11:35.560 life of men. 11:36.840 --> 11:41.260 From the time of Artaxerxes to our own day, all the events have been recorded, 11:41.800 --> 11:45.420 but the accounts are not worthy of the same confidence that we repose in those 11:45.420 --> 11:49.920 which preceded them, because there has not been during this time an exact succession 11:49.920 --> 11:50.620 of prophets. 11:52.300 --> 11:56.580 How much we are attached to our own writings is shown plainly by our treatment 11:56.580 --> 11:57.100 of them. 11:57.680 --> 12:02.260 For although so great a period has already passed by, no one has ventured either to 12:02.260 --> 12:07.540 add to or to take from them, but it is inbred in all Jews from their very birth 12:07.540 --> 12:12.760 to regard them as the teachings of God, and to abide by them, and, if necessary, 12:13.140 --> 12:14.600 cheerfully to die for them. 12:15.140 --> 12:19.040 These remarks of the historian, I have thought, might advantageously be 12:19.040 --> 12:20.540 introduced in this connection. 12:22.800 --> 12:27.160 Another work of no little merit has been produced by the same writer, On the 12:27.160 --> 12:32.160 Supremacy of Reason, which some have called Maccabeacum, because it contains an 12:32.160 --> 12:35.760 account of the struggles of those Hebrews who contended manfully for the true 12:35.760 --> 12:39.180 religion, as is related in the books called Maccabees. 12:41.180 --> 12:45.600 And at the end of the twentieth book of his Antiquities, Josephus himself 12:45.600 --> 12:50.020 intimates that he had purposed to write a work in four books concerning God and his 12:50.020 --> 12:54.460 existence, according to the traditional opinions of the Jews, and also concerning 12:54.460 --> 12:58.640 the laws, why it is that they permit some things while prohibiting others. 12:59.520 --> 13:04.160 And the same writer also mentions in his own works other books written by himself. 13:05.920 --> 13:10.560 In addition to these things, it is proper to quote also the words that are found at 13:10.560 --> 13:14.440 the close of his Antiquities, in confirmation of the testimony which we 13:14.440 --> 13:15.700 have drawn from his accounts. 13:16.440 --> 13:21.600 In that place he attacks Justice of Tiberias, who, like himself, had attempted 13:21.600 --> 13:25.820 to write a history of contemporary events, on the ground that he had not written 13:25.820 --> 13:26.420 truthfully. 13:27.080 --> 13:31.140 Having brought many other accusations against the man, he continues in these 13:31.140 --> 13:37.040 words, I indeed was not afraid in respect to my writings as you were, but, 13:37.160 --> 13:41.360 on the contrary, I presented my books to the emperors themselves when the events 13:41.360 --> 13:43.040 were almost under men's eyes. 13:43.600 --> 13:48.100 For I was conscious that I had preserved the truth in my account, and hence was not 13:48.100 --> 13:51.580 disappointed in my expectation of obtaining their attestation. 13:53.840 --> 13:58.780 And I presented my history also to many others, some of whom were present at the 13:58.780 --> 14:02.320 war, as, for instance, King Agrippa and some of his relatives. 14:03.900 --> 14:08.300 For the Emperor Titus desired so much that the knowledge of the events should be 14:08.300 --> 14:13.020 communicated to men by my history alone, that he endorsed the books with his own 14:13.020 --> 14:15.340 hand and commanded that they should be published. 14:16.120 --> 14:20.520 And King Agrippa wrote sixty-two epistles testifying to the truthfulness of my 14:20.520 --> 14:20.940 account. 14:21.740 --> 14:24.620 Of these epistles Josephus subjoins two. 14:25.280 --> 14:27.620 But this will suffice in regard to him. 14:28.040 --> 14:29.940 Let us now proceed with our history. 14:31.760 --> 14:39.220 Chapter 11 Simeon Rules the Church of Jerusalem After James After the martyrdom 14:39.220 --> 14:43.580 of James and the conquest of Jerusalem which immediately followed, it is said 14:43.580 --> 14:47.500 that those of the apostles and disciples of the Lord that were still living came 14:47.500 --> 14:51.440 together from all directions with those that were related to the Lord according to 14:51.440 --> 14:56.620 the flesh, for the majority of them also were still alive, to take counsel as to 14:56.620 --> 14:58.620 who was worthy to succeed James. 15:00.160 --> 15:05.260 They all with one consent pronounced Simeon, the son of Clopas, of whom the 15:05.260 --> 15:09.900 gospel also makes mention, to be worthy of the episcopal throne of that parish. 15:10.580 --> 15:13.000 He was a cousin, as they say, of the Savior. 15:13.980 --> 15:17.600 For Hegesippus records that Clopas was a brother of Joseph. 15:19.540 --> 15:26.020 Chapter 12 Vespasian Commands the Descendants of David to be Sought He also 15:26.020 --> 15:30.460 relates that Vespasian, after the conquest of Jerusalem, gave orders that all that 15:30.460 --> 15:34.800 belonged to the lineage of David should be sought out, in order that none of the 15:34.800 --> 15:39.800 royal race might be left among the Jews, and in consequence of this a most terrible 15:39.800 --> 15:42.160 persecution again hung over the Jews. 15:44.280 --> 15:50.900 Chapter 13 Anuncletus, the Second Bishop of Rome After Vespasian had reigned ten 15:50.900 --> 15:53.420 years, Titus, his son, succeeded him. 15:54.060 --> 15:57.820 In the second year of his reign, Linus, who had been bishop of the Church 15:57.820 --> 16:03.040 of Rome for twelve years, delivered his office to Anuncletus, but Titus was 16:03.040 --> 16:07.420 succeeded by his brother Domitian after he had reigned two years and the same number 16:07.420 --> 16:08.000 of months. 16:10.100 --> 16:17.400 Chapter 14 Abilius, the Second Bishop of Alexandria In the fourth year of Domitian, 16:17.620 --> 16:22.540 Anianus, the first bishop of the parish of Alexandria, died after holding office 16:22.540 --> 16:26.920 twenty-two years, and was succeeded by Abilius, the second bishop. 16:28.880 --> 16:34.440 Chapter 15 Clement, the Third Bishop of Rome In the twelfth year of the same 16:34.440 --> 16:38.700 reign, Clement succeeded Anuncletus, after the latter had been bishop of the 16:38.700 --> 16:40.320 Church of Rome for twelve years. 16:41.020 --> 16:44.820 The apostle in his epistle to the Philippians informs us that this Clement 16:44.820 --> 16:46.000 was his fellow worker. 16:46.740 --> 16:51.260 His words are as follows, With Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, 16:51.380 --> 16:53.060 whose names are in the Book of Life. 16:54.660 --> 17:01.720 Chapter 16 The Epistle of Clement There is extant an epistle of this Clement which is 17:01.720 --> 17:05.860 acknowledged to be genuine, and is of considerable length and of remarkable 17:05.860 --> 17:06.320 merit. 17:06.820 --> 17:10.180 He wrote it in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church of Corinth, 17:10.560 --> 17:13.060 when a sedition had arisen in the latter church. 17:13.580 --> 17:17.800 We know that this epistle also has been publicly used in a great many churches 17:17.800 --> 17:20.180 both in former times and in our own. 17:20.940 --> 17:25.220 And of the fact that a sedition did take place in the Church of Corinth at the time 17:25.220 --> 17:28.260 referred to, Hegesippus is a trustworthy witness. 17:30.220 --> 17:37.760 Chapter 17 The Persecution under Domitian Domitian having shown great cruelty toward 17:37.760 --> 17:42.560 many, and having unjustly put to death no small number of well-born and notable men 17:42.560 --> 17:47.300 at Rome, and having without cause exiled and confiscated the property of a great 17:47.300 --> 17:52.400 many other illustrious men, finally became a successor of Nero in his hatred and 17:52.400 --> 17:53.740 enmity toward God. 17:54.360 --> 17:59.200 He was in fact the second that stirred up a persecution against us, although his 17:59.200 --> 18:02.560 father Vespasian had undertaken nothing prejudicial to us. 18:04.340 --> 18:11.120 Chapter 18 The Apostle John and the Apocalypse It is said that in this 18:11.120 --> 18:16.180 persecution the Apostle and Evangelist John, who was still alive, was condemned 18:16.180 --> 18:20.660 to dwell on the island of Patmos in consequence of his testimony to the divine 18:20.660 --> 18:21.140 word. 18:23.740 --> 18:28.240 Irenaeus, in the fifth book of his work Against Heresies, where he discusses the 18:28.240 --> 18:32.380 number of the name of Antichrist which is given in the so-called Apocalypse of John, 18:32.900 --> 18:34.800 speaks as follows concerning him. 18:36.460 --> 18:41.180 If it were necessary for his name to be proclaimed openly at the present time, 18:41.380 --> 18:46.440 it would have been declared by him who saw the revelation, for it was seen not long 18:46.440 --> 18:51.340 ago, but almost in our own generation, at the end of the reign of Domitian. 18:52.960 --> 18:58.020 To such a degree indeed did the teaching of our faith flourish at that time that 18:58.020 --> 19:02.300 even those writers who were far from our religion did not hesitate to mention in 19:02.300 --> 19:06.600 their histories the persecution and the martyrdoms which took place during it. 19:08.640 --> 19:13.420 And they indeed accurately indicated the time, for they recorded that in the 19:13.420 --> 19:18.600 fifteenth year of Domitian, Flavia Domitilla, daughter of a sister of Flavius 19:18.600 --> 19:23.500 Clement, who at that time was one of the consuls of Rome, was exiled with many 19:23.500 --> 19:28.000 others to the island of Pontia in consequence of testimony borne to Christ. 19:35.580 --> 19:40.360 But when this same Domitian had commanded that the descendants of David should be 19:40.360 --> 19:45.120 slain, an ancient tradition says that some of the heretics brought accusation against 19:45.120 --> 19:49.460 the descendants of Jude, said to have been a brother of the Saviour according to the 19:49.460 --> 19:53.500 flesh, on the ground that they were of the lineage of David and were related to 19:53.500 --> 19:54.360 Christ himself. 19:55.200 --> 19:57.980 Hegesippus relates these facts in the following words. 20:00.060 --> 20:01.180 Chapter 20. 20:01.460 --> 20:03.040 The Relatives of Our Saviour. 20:03.800 --> 20:08.140 Of the family of the Lord there were still living the grandchildren of Jude, 20:08.460 --> 20:11.600 who is said to have been the Lord's brother according to the flesh. 20:13.180 --> 20:17.500 Information was given that they belonged to the family of David, and they were 20:17.500 --> 20:22.140 brought to the Emperor Domitian by the Evocatists, for Domitian feared the coming 20:22.140 --> 20:24.470 of Christ as Herod also had feared it. 20:24.890 --> 20:28.690 And he asked them if they were descendants of David, and they confessed that they 20:28.690 --> 20:28.990 were. 20:29.390 --> 20:33.890 Then he asked them how much property they had, or how much money they owned. 20:34.330 --> 20:39.330 And both of them answered that they had only nine thousand denarii, half of which 20:39.330 --> 20:40.590 belonged to each of them. 20:42.250 --> 20:46.310 And this property did not consist of silver, but of a piece of land which 20:46.310 --> 20:50.870 contained only thirty-nine acres, and from which they raised their taxes and 20:50.870 --> 20:52.850 supported themselves by their own labor. 20:54.370 --> 20:58.790 Then they showed their hands, exhibiting the hardness of their bodies and the 20:58.790 --> 21:03.650 callousness produced upon their hands by continuous toil, as evidence of their own 21:03.650 --> 21:03.970 labor. 21:05.530 --> 21:10.630 And when they were asked concerning Christ and His kingdom, of what sort it was and 21:10.630 --> 21:14.630 where and when it was to appear, they answered that it was not a temporal 21:14.630 --> 21:19.770 nor an earthly kingdom, but a heavenly and angelic one, which would appear at the end 21:19.770 --> 21:23.890 of the world, when He should come in glory to judge the quick and the dead, 21:24.210 --> 21:26.950 and to give unto everyone according to His works. 21:28.870 --> 21:34.270 Upon hearing this, Domitian did not pass judgment against them, but despising them 21:34.270 --> 21:38.730 as of no account, he let them go, and by a decree put a stop to the 21:38.730 --> 21:40.030 persecution of the church. 21:41.670 --> 21:46.130 But when they were released they ruled the churches because they were witnesses and 21:46.130 --> 21:47.930 were also relatives of the Lord. 21:48.650 --> 21:52.250 And peace being established, they lived until the time of Trajan. 21:53.010 --> 21:55.070 These things are related by Hegesippus. 21:56.910 --> 22:00.350 Tertullian also has mentioned Domitian in the following words. 22:00.970 --> 22:05.890 Domitian also, who possessed a share of Nero's cruelty, attempted once to do the 22:05.890 --> 22:07.450 same thing that the latter did. 22:07.830 --> 22:12.930 But because he had, I suppose, some intelligence, he very soon ceased, 22:13.190 --> 22:15.570 and even recalled those whom he had banished. 22:17.590 --> 22:22.290 But after Domitian had reigned fifteen years, and Nerva had succeeded to the 22:22.290 --> 22:26.850 empire, the Roman Senate, according to the writers that record the history of those 22:26.850 --> 22:31.530 days, voted that Domitian's honors should be canceled, and that those who had been 22:31.530 --> 22:36.130 unjustly banished should return to their homes and have their property restored to 22:36.130 --> 22:36.410 them. 22:38.150 --> 22:42.970 It was at this time that the Apostle John returned from his banishment in the island 22:42.970 --> 22:47.010 and took up his abode at Ephesus, according to an ancient Christian 22:47.010 --> 22:47.530 tradition. 22:49.830 --> 22:57.210 CHAPTER XXI SIRDON BECOMES THE THIRD RULER OF THE CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA After Nerva 22:57.210 --> 23:00.790 had reigned a little more than a year, he was succeeded by Trajan. 23:01.430 --> 23:05.650 It was during the first year of his reign that Abelius, who had ruled the church of 23:05.650 --> 23:09.290 Alexandria for thirteen years, was succeeded by Sirdon. 23:09.930 --> 23:14.910 He was the third that presided over that church after Anianus, who was the first. 23:15.590 --> 23:20.010 At that time, Clement still ruled the church of Rome, being also the third that 23:20.010 --> 23:22.530 held the episcopate there after Paul and Peter. 23:24.150 --> 23:27.610 Linus was the first, and after him came Anuncletus.