CHRONICLE OF EDESSA.

In the year 740, Andreas Andrew, Bishop of Samosata, became known.

In the year 741, the sky rained dust.

In the year 742, the First Synod of Ephesus was assembled.

In the year 746, on the eighth of August, Rabulas, Bishop of Edessa, passed away. And Ibas the Great stood in his stead. And this man built a new temple, which is called today "of the Apostles."

In the year 749, in the days of the aforementioned Ibas, a Senator gave a silver table weighing seven hundred and twenty pounds. And it was placed in the old church of Edessa.

In the year 753, Anatolius, the stratelates general/military commander, made a silver casket for the bones of Saint Thomas the Apostle.

LVI. In the year 740, Andreas Bishop of Samosata became known.

LVII. In the year 741, the sky rained dust.

LVIII. In the year 742, the First Synod of Ephesus was celebrated.

LIX. In the year 746, on the 8th of August, Rabulas, Bishop of Edessa, departed from this world; and the great Ibas was succeeded in his place. He built a new Church, which is called the Apostles' today.

LX. In the year 749, under the most excellent Ibas, a Senator offered a huge silver table of seven hundred and twenty pounds, which was deposited in the old Church of Edessa.

LXI. In the year 753, Anatolius, the Prefect of the military, made a silver chest in honor of the bones of Saint Thomas the Apostle.

LXII.

...even when it was flourishing most in Syria, it was defended by very few Syrians: and therefore it is closer to the truth that our author, who flourished after the year of Christ 540—that is, about one hundred and twenty years after its beginning—abhorred it greatly. What if he, not sufficiently instructed regarding the most famous question that was agitated between Theodore and the Westerners (that is, St. Augustine and Jerome) concerning original sin, thought that those words, that humans sin by nature, and that sin is inherent to nature, were twisted into the sense of the Manichaeans, as if human nature were evil in itself and created by an evil God? Or, what is more probable, he understood the same regarding actual sin; in which sense they certainly contain a monstrous error. For writers are often divided into different opinions due to the misunderstood words of disputants, as is manifest in the questions about "one of the Trinity having suffered in the flesh" and the Trisagion thrice-holy hymn. Nor is it a wonder that our author was ignorant of that question, the knowledge of which even eluded Photius himself, a most learned man otherwise, as the Eminent Norisius learnedly showed in the cited place, and from him, Pagius observed at the year 423, no. 19.

^1 Andreas, Bishop of Samosata. Ecclesiastical writers say more about him, whom you may see. However, he was different from Andrew the Monk of Constantinople, to whom Theodoret's letter 163 exists, as Pagius noted at the year 430, no. 17, from Garnerius. For he was still a monk in the year 448, as is clear from the cited letter of Theodoret; but our Andrew was already presiding over the Church of Samosata in the year 429, as is clear from our Chronicle.

^2 Anno 742. Thus I have corrected the error of the scribe, who refers to this as having been done in the year of the Greeks 744, the year of Christ 433, contrary to the common opinion and contrary to the Acts of the Ephesine Synod itself. Thus also Dionysius is to be corrected, who drew the same error from our Chronicle.

^3 Ibas. See page 199.