Chronicle of Edessa (1719) - Page 15

...was brought by Theodosius to that same city. And in that same year, he brought the remains of Mar Ephraim from one city to that city.

In the year 701, in the month of Tammuz, the Huns entered the land of the Romans.

In the year 707, on the twenty-second of Tammuz, Mar Cyrus, Bishop of Edessa, departed from this world.

In the year 708, Mar Silvanus was appointed Bishop of Edessa.

In the year 709, on the seventeenth of Tishrin Qadim October, Mar Silvanus, Bishop of Edessa, departed.

In the year 710, on the twenty-third of Tishrin Aharin November, Mar Pachidas was appointed Bishop of Edessa.

In the year 710, John 2 Chrysostom went to Constantinople as Bishop.

In the year 714, 3 Theodore of Mopsuestia, Bishop, began to interpret the Scriptures.

...brought to the same city.

XL. In the same year, in the month of July, the Huns invaded the Roman domain.

XLI. In the year 707, on July 22nd, Mar Cyrus, Bishop of Edessa, departed from this world.

XLII. In the year 708, Mar Silvanus was made Bishop of Edessa.

XLIII. In the year 710, on October 17th, Mar Silvanus, Bishop of Edessa, died.

XLIV. In the same year, on November 23rd, Mar Pachidas was ordained Bishop of Edessa.

XLV. In that same year, John 2 Chrysostom became the prefect of the Constantinopolitan Church.

XLVI. In the year 714, Theodore 3, Bishop of Mopsuestia, began to comment on the Holy Scriptures.

XLVII.

N O T E S.

1. Huns. Joshua describes their excursions in his Chronicle, see page 264; and Dionysius more fully at the year of the Greeks 706.

2. John Chrysostom. Socrates, Book 6, Chapter 2, asserts that Chrysostom was established on the Episcopal throne on the fourth day before the Calends of March, in the consulship of Honorius IV and Eutychianus, that is, February 26th of the year of Christ 398. George, Bishop of Alexandria, writes the same in his Life, number 20, as does Marcellinus in his Chronicle under the aforementioned consuls. Therefore, what is placed here in our Chronicle regarding the ordination of Chrysostom in the year 710 must be moved back to the year of the Greeks 709. Furthermore, Dionysius must be corrected, for he narrates that this took place in the year 707 in these words:

In that same year, 707, Mar John the Bishop died in Constantinople.

In the year 707, Nectarius, Bishop of Constantinople, died, and Saint John was substituted for him. Nectarius died, according to the aforementioned Socrates, on the fifth day before the Calends of October in the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus, that is, around the end of September in the year of Christ 397, which corresponds to the current year of the Greeks, 708.

3. Year 714. During which Theodore was in the ninth year of his episcopate, as Pagius correctly deduces from Theodoret, Book 5, Chapter 40, for the year 423, number 16. For he died in the year of Christ 429, when Theodoret concluded his History; this was thirty-six years after...