{"id":13833,"date":"2015-01-10T20:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2015-01-10T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T20:40:53","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-9-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/01\/10\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-9-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 9 (Contd)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s continue with chapter 9 of this Arabic Christian work:<\/em><\/p>\n

5. As for those who wonder why the patriarch of Alexandria is called “B\u0101b\u0101”, we answer: “B\u0101b\u0101” means “grandfather”.\u00a0 But\u00a0from\u00a0the time when Ananias was made patriarch of Alexandria by the Evangelist Mark to the time of Demetrius, patriarch of Alexandria, who was the eleventh patriarch [of\u00a0that place], there was never, in the province of Egypt,\u00a0a bishop\u00a0and the patriarchs who preceded him had never consecrated bishops.\u00a0 But when he became patriarch, Demetrius consecrated three bishops and it was he, in truth, who was the first patriarch of Alexandria to consecrate bishops.\u00a0 At his death\u00a0there was made patriarch of Alexandria Heraclas, who consecrated twenty bishops.\u00a0 One of these bishops, named Eumenius, transgressed the law, and the news came to the patriarch Heraclas who immediately convened a group of bishops, went to the city [where was] Eumenius,\u00a0and made some inquiries about him; and he pondered the case thoroughly and worked out the truth.\u00a0 It was then that, hearing\u00a0the people\u00a0call the bishops “Ab” [or “father”], the\u00a0patriarch thought: “If we call the bishop “Ab” and the bishops themselves call the patriarch “Ab”, then we call the patriarch “B\u0101b\u0101”, or “grandfather”, for he is the father of fathers.”\u00a0 The Patriarch of Alexandria was so called, from the time of Heraclas, “B\u0101b\u0101”, or “grandfather”.\u00a0 Ananias, patriarch of Alexandria, whom the evangelist Mark had made the patriarch of that time,\u00a0 remained in office for twenty-two years and died.\u00a0 The evangelist Mark went to Barqah (8), exhorting the people to embrace the faith in Christ, Son of God.<\/p>\n

6. Claudius Caesar died, and there reigned after him, in Rome, his son Nero Caesar for thirteen years. He was the first to\u00a0procure serious evils and misfortunes\u00a0for the\u00a0Christians.\u00a0 He was an extremely bad man and of wicked habits.\u00a0 At the time of Nero Caesar, Peter, chief of the Apostles, wrote in the city of Rome the Gospel of Mark, at the hands of the latter, in Latin, and attributed it to Mark.<\/p>\n

It was also at the time of this king that Luke wrote his gospel in Greek for a Roman nobleman named Theophilus and it was also he who wrote the “Praxis”, i.e. “The Acts of the Apostles” (9).\u00a0 The evangelist Luke was the companion of the Apostle Paul, and remained with him for a long time. We know this because the apostle Paul says in his letter: “The doctor Luke greets you” (10).\u00a0 Nero Caesar\u00a0took Peter, crucified him with his head down, and had him put to death, because Peter had asked him: “If you want to crucify me,\u00a0crucify\u00a0me\u00a0with\u00a0my head down, because my death is not the same as that of Christ, my Lord, who was crucified in the upright position” (11).\u00a0 Then [Nero] beheaded Paul.\u00a0 Peter was put to deathtwenty-two years after Christ, our Lord, was put to death.\u00a0 After Peter, Linus\u00a0was made patriarch of Rome(12).\u00a0 He held the office for twelve years and died. He was the first to be made patriarch of Rome.\u00a0 The evangelist Mark preached to the people the\u00a0faith in Christ, Son of God, in Alexandria and Barqah for seven years.\u00a0 In the first year of the reign of the aforementioned Nero Caesar, Mark was put to death in Alexandria, and his body was set on fire (13).\u00a0 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nero Caesar Ignatius was made Patriarch of Antioch.\u00a0 He held the seat for thirty-two and\u00a0was put to death.<\/p>\n

7. Qistus, governor of Jerusalem, died and the city was without any authority or sovereign to govern it.\u00a0 The Jews then arose\u00a0and rioted and killed James, son of Joseph, known as the “brother of the Lord”, stoning him\u00a0to death (14).\u00a0 Then they harassed a group of disciples and expelled them from the city.\u00a0 The Christians abandoned Jerusalem, crossed the Jordan and settled in those places (15).\u00a0 Informed of this fact, Nero Caesar sent word to the commander stationed in the East, named Vespasian, to rally his troops and go to Judea with orders to kill all the inhabitants, sparing none, and to destroy the houses.\u00a0 Having\u00a0heard these things, the Jews gathered together and those who\u00a0among them were wealthy offered their goods\u00a0to build three\u00a0citadels around the city.\u00a0 They equipped them with\u00a0towers, fortified them, and castellated them. Vespasian arrived in Judea after spreading destruction in every town of Galilee and burning it.\u00a0 But against Jerusalem he could not do anything, because it was well fortified and strengthened.\u00a0 He spent a year besieging it.\u00a0 The Jews\u00a0made nocturnal sorties, in secret, and\u00a0spread death among the Roman soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s continue with chapter 9 of this Arabic Christian work: 5. As for those who wonder why the patriarch of Alexandria is called “B\u0101b\u0101”, we answer: “B\u0101b\u0101” means “grandfather”.\u00a0 But\u00a0from\u00a0the time when Ananias was made patriarch of Alexandria by the Evangelist Mark to the time of Demetrius, patriarch of Alexandria, who was the eleventh patriarch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[672],"class_list":["post-13833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}