CHAPTER 1

Chronological Notes relative to this Epistle.

• Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, as used by the emperors of the east in their diplomata, etc., and thence also called the “civil era of the Greeks,” 5564
• Year of the Alexandrian era of the world, or Greek ecclesiastical epocha, 5558.
• Year of the Antiochian era of the world, 5548.
• Year of the Eusebian epocha of the creation, or that used in the Chronicon of Eusebius, and the Roman Martyrology, 4284.
• Year of the Julian period, 4764.
• Year of the Usherian era of the world, or that used in the English Bibles, 4060.
• Year of the minor Jewish era of the world, 3816.
• Year of the greater Rabbinical era of the world, 4415.
• Year since the Deluge, according to Archbishop Usher and the English Bible, 2404.
• Year of the Cali Yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 3158.
• Year of the Iphitus, or since the first commencement of the Olympic games, 996.
• Year of the two hundred and eighth Olympiad, 4.
• Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, who flourished in the time of the first Punic war, and who is styled by Dionysius of Halicarnassus an accurate writer, 803. (This epoch is used by Diodorus Siculus.)
• Year from the building of Rome, according to Polybius, 807.
• Year from the building of Rome, according to Cato and the Fasti Consulares; and adopted by Solinus, Eusebius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, etc., 808.
• Year from the building of Rome according to Varro, which was that adopted by the Roman emperors in their proclamations, by Plutarch, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Gellius, Censorinus, Onuphrius, Baronius, and by most modern chrono