VII. Веспасиан (царст. 9 лет, 11 месяцев и 22 дня)

Vespasian, having been proclaimed emperor by the army in Judea and entrusting the war to his son Titus, goes to Rome through Alexandria. The end of the kingdom of Judah. Titus took possession of Judea, and, having destroyed Jerusalem, killed 600,000 people. And Joseph writes that 1,100,000 died from hunger and the sword, and the other 100,000, taken captive, were sold at public auction. And that there were such a multitude of people in Jerusalem, he points out the reason for this in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, as a result of which the Jews, flocking to the church from every tribe of the land of Judea, were imprisoned in the city as in a prison: for it was fitting for them to be killed on the same days of Passover on which they crucified the Savior. The total time until the second year of Vespasian and the final destruction of Jerusalem from the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar and from the beginning of the gospel preaching is considered 42 years. And from the captivity that the Jews suffered from Antiochus, it is considered 239 years; further, from the second year of Darius, during which the church was built again, 590 years, and from the first construction of the temple by Solomon to its last destruction under Vespasian, 1102. Vespasian began to build the Capitol. There was an uproar in Alexandria. Serapion, a philosopher and orator, gains fame. Achaia, Lycia, Rhodes, Byzantium, Samos, Thrace, Cilicia, Comagena, which were previously free and under the control of friendly kings, were converted; in the province. The Colossus was erected with a height of 107 feet. Famous is K. Askonius Pedian, a historical writer who, at the age of 73, lost his sight, and for 12 years thereafter lived in old age in the greatest honor. Gabinian, the most famous rhetorician, taught in Gaul. Three cities in Cyprus were destroyed by an earthquake. There was a severe pestilence in Rome, so that for many days almost 10,000 dead people were entered into the daily record. Vespasian evicted the colonies and died of diarrhea in his own villa near Sabina at the age of 69. We translate the chronicle of Eusebius according to Jerome’s account, starting only from the Nativity of Christ, bearing in mind theological and church-historical interest, which the previous part of the chronicle does not represent. On the same basis, we consider it possible to omit in the translation the chronological indication of the years from Abraham, according to the Olympiads and according to the years of the reign of the kings of Judah (before the destruction of Jerusalem) and limit ourselves to Christian chronology. Asterisks indicate testimony of dubious authenticity that is found in all lists of the chronicle according to the presentation of the bl. Jerome. Note Editorials. You might be interested in: