To Autolycus 3.28 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Otto 8:266–268

Ἀπὸ δὲ καταβολῆς κόσμου ὁ πᾶς χρόνος κεφαλαιωδῶς οὕτως κατάγεται. Ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου ἕως κατακλυσμοῦ ἐγένοντο ἔτη βσμβ΄. Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ἕως τεκνογονίας Ἀβραὰμ τοῦ προπάτορος ἡμῶν ἔτη αλς΄. Ἀπὸ δὲ Ἰσαὰκ τοῦ παιδὸς Ἀβραὰμ ἕως οὗ ὁ λαὸς σὺν Μωσῇ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ διέτριβεν ἔτη χξ΄. Ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Μωσέως τελευτῆς, ἀρχῆς Ἰησοῦ υἱοῦ Ναυῆ, μέχρι τελευτῆς Δαυὶδ τοῦ πατριάρχου ἔτη υϟ η΄. Ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς τελευτῆς Δαυίδ, βασιλείας δὲ Σολομῶνος, μέχρι τῆς παροικίας τοῦ λαοῦ ἐν γῇ Βαβυλῶνος ἔτη φιη΄ μῆνες ζ΄ ἡμέραι ι΄. Ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Κύρου ἀρχῆς μέχρι αὐτοκράτορος Αὐρηλίου Οὐήρου τελευτῆς ἔτη ψμα΄. Ὁμοῦ ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου συνάγονται τὰ πάντα ἔτη εχϟε΄ καὶ οἱ ἐπιτρέχοντες μῆνες καὶ ἡμέραι.

English · Claude translation

The whole time from the foundation of the world may be summed up as follows. From the creation of the world to the flood there were 2,242 years. From the flood until Abraham our forefather fathered a son, 1,036 years. From Isaac the son of Abraham until the people spent their time with Moses in the desert, 660 years. From the death of Moses and the leadership of Joshua son of Nun to the death of David the patriarch, 498 years. From the death of David and the reign of Solomon to the sojourn of the people in the land of Babylon, 518 years, 7 months, and 10 days. From the reign of Cyrus to the death of the emperor Aurelius Verus, 741 years. Altogether, from the creation of the world, the total comes to 5,695 years, with the additional months and days.

About this passage

Source

Otto 8:266–268 · Johann Carl Theodor Otto, ed., Theophili episcopi Antiocheni ad Autolycum libri tres, Corpus apologetarum Christianorum saeculi secundi 8 (Jena: Mauke, 1861) · Greek text: J. C. T. Otto, Theophili episcopi Antiocheni ad Autolycum libri tres (Corpus apologetarum Christianorum saeculi secundi 8, 1861), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Otto, CorpApol 8. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Otto (1861); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

By this reckoning Christ was born around the year 5500 of the world, a figure common in early Christian chronography.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misprint: ἴτη for ἔτη): διέτριβεν ἴτη χξ΄ → διέτριβεν ἔτη χξ΄.

Cite this passage

Theophilus, Autol. 3.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/theophilus-autolycus/3/28/).

Plain text

Theophilus, Autol. 3.28 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/theophilus-autolycus/3/28/).