Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 52

St Jerome (AD 345–420) · De viris illustribus · PL 23, 598–720

52 Judas PL 23, 661

Judas, discussed at length the seventy weeks mentioned in Daniel and wrote a Chronography of former times which he brought up to the tenth year of Severus. He is convicted of error in respect of this work in that he prophesied that the advent of Anti-Christ would be about his period, but this was because the greatness of the persecutions seemed to forebode the end of the world.

Judas de septuaginta apud Danielem hebdomadibus plenissime disputavit, et chronographiam superiorum temporum usque ad decimum Severi produxit annum. In qua erroris arguitur, quod adventum Antichristi circa sua tempora futurum esse dixerit: sed hoc ideo, quia magnitudo persecutionum praesentem mundi minabatur occasum.

Ἰούδας περὶ τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα ἑβδομάδων τῶν κατὰ Δανιὴλ ἀκριβῶς ἐξηγήσατο, καὶ χρονογραφίαν τῶν ἀνωτέρω χρόνων, ἕως τοῦ δεκάτου ἐνιαυτοῦ Σεβήρου τοῦ βασιλέως συνέταξεν, ἐν ᾗ καταγινώσκεται τὴν τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου ἐπιστασίαν, περὶ τοὺς ἰδίους καιροὺς φήσας πλησιάζειν· τὸ γὰρ μέγεθος τοῦ τότε διωγμοῦ, ὡσανεὶ παροῦσαν ἐμήνυε τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀπώλειαν.

Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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