702

 The Spring Equinox of 

A.D.

 50 was on March 22, the next full moon was on Friday, March 27, making 

Sunday, March 29, Easter Sunday. Spring Equinox and Full moon data from  RedShift 3. Days of the week 

from Universal Calendar Calculator software. 

703

 April 2 of 

A.D.

 47 coincided with Pharmuthi 8 in the Egyptian Alexandrian calendar. March 29 of 

A.D.

 50 

coincided with Pharmuthi 4 in the Egyptian Alexandrian calendar. Egyptian calendar data from  Universal 

Calendar Calculator software. 

704

 Athanasius,  Letter XVIII. (for 346), Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Series II, volume IV, Christian 

Classics Ethereal Library, (Wheaton, Illinois: Wheaton College, 1998), CD ROM, . 

The day  iii Kal April  means three days before the Kalends (the first day) of April, which works out to be 

March 29. Athanasius wrote this letter in 

A.D.

 346, on the topic of the date of Easter in 

A.D.

 347, when 

March 29 was Easter Sunday. 

705

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 20.200 203. 

706

 Tacitus, The Annals, 15.41. 

707

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapters 2, 8. 

708

 Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, 20.203. 

709

 Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 3.14.1. 

710

 Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 2.25.8. 

711

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 5. 

712

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 669 670, p. 387 388. 

713

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 1. 

714

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 8. 

715

 Jerome, The Commentaries, Matthew. 

716

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 9. Eusebius, 3.24, p. 86 87. 

717

 Eusebius, The History of the Church, Penguin Books, 3.24.7. 

718

 Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 4, Dec. 27, p. 621.  

719

 Eusebius, The History of the Church, Penguin Books, 3.18.1. 

720

 Jerome, Against Jovinianus, 1.26, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, (Wheaton, Illinois: Wheaton College, 

1998), CD ROM, . 

721

 Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 2, May 6, p. 240 242. 

722

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 9. 

723

 Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 3.23.4 

724

 Victorinus,  Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John, 10.11, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 

(Wheaton, Illinois: Wheaton College, 1998), CD ROM, . See paragraph 11 of his 

commentary on the tenth chapter of Revelation. 

725

 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 9. 

726

 Eusebius,  Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 3.5.1; 3.13.1. The writings of Eusebius were well 

known and accepted by Jerome. 

727

 Suetonius Tranquillus, Lives of the Caesars, ed. G.P. Goold, trans. J.C. Rolfe, Suetonius,  Volume II, Loeb 

Classical Library, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997), 12.11.1. 

728

 Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Loeb Classical Library, 12.10.2. 

729

 If John had spent most of Domitian's reign on Patmos, the early Church Fathers would have spoken of his 

stay on Patmos as lengthy. Instead, they talk at length about his work in Ephesus and the surrounding area of 

Asia, giving only brief mention to his stay on Patmos. 

730

 Eusebius, The History of the Church, Penguin Books, 3.18.4. 

731

 Finegan, Handbook of Biblical Chronology, revised edition, no. 179, table 40, p. 85. 

732

 Jerome,  Lives of Illustrious Men, chapter 9. Jerome indicates this by referring to  the fourteenth year then 

after Nero,  i.e. Domitian's first year, as the start of the troubles. 

733

 Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 3.23.6 8; see also 3.20.9 and 3.23.1. 

734

 Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Loeb Classical Library, 3.23.3 4. 

735

 Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 4, Dec. 27, p. 622. 

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