Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezra 6:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 77, footnote 4 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 1429 (In-Text, Margin)

... understand:  From the going forth of the word for making answer, and for the building of Jerusalem, until Messiah the Prince are seven weeks and three score and two weeks. Now three score and nine weeks of years contain four hundred and eighty-three years. He said, therefore, that after the building of Jerusalem, four hundred and eighty-three years having passed, and the rulers having failed, then cometh a certain king of another race, in whose time the Christ is to be born. Now Darius the Mede[Ezra 6:15] built the city in the sixth year of his own reign, and first year of the 66th Olympiad according to the Greeks. Olympiad is the name among the Greeks of the games celebrated after four years, because of the day which in every four years of the sun’s ...