The Year after CHRIST

60.

62.

63.

The Seventh Age of the World.

Acts,xxiii priest. The chief captain, understanding that above forty Jews had bound themselves, under a curse, neither to eat nor drink till they had killed him, sends him to Felix, the governor of the province, by whom he is imprisoned at Cæsarea.

xxiv.

XXV.

xxvi.

xxvii.

65. Heb. xiii. 24.

66.

67.

Tit. i. 5.

Paul is accused before Felix by Tertullus, the orator. Felix goes out of his office; and, to gratify the Jews, leaves Paul in prison. Porcius Festus succeeds him in the government.

The Jews come to Cæsarea, and accuse Paul before Festus. He answereth for himself, and appeals unto Cæsar. King Agrippa comes to Cæsarea, and Festus opens the whole matter to him.

Paul makes his defence in the presense of Agrippa, who thereby is almost persuaded to be a Christian; and the whole company pronounce him innocent.

Paul comes to Rome, is a prisoner at large, and preacheth there two years.

Here ends the History of the Acts of the Apostles, written by S. Luke, S. Paul's beloved Companion in his Travels.

S. Paul from Rome writes his epistles,

To the Philippians,

To Philemon,
To the Colossians,

To the Ephesians.

About the latter end of this year, S. Paul is set at liberty; and a little before his departure out of Italy into Asia, he writes his epistle to the Hebrews.

He preacheth the Gospel in the isle of Crete, and leaves Titus there to set things in order, and ordain elders in every city.

S. Paul writes his epistles,

To Timothy I.

To Titus.

To Timothy II.

About this time the epistles of S. Peter, S. John, and S. Jude, seem to be written.

Eus. Hist.
S. Peter and S. Paul are said to have suffered
Ec. 1. 2. martyrdom at Rome towards the latter end of Nero's
c. 24.
reign.

70. Luke, xix. 43, 44.

This year Jerusalem (according to Christ's prophecy) is besieged, taken, sacked, and burnt by Titus; 1,100,000 of the Jews perish, 97,000 are taken prisoners; besides an innumerable company that in other places of Judea kill themselves, or perish through famine, banishment, and other miseries.

The Year before CHRIST

96.

The Seventh Age of the World.

S. John is banished into the isle of Patmos by Domitian, and there receives and writes his Revelation.

After the death of Domitian, S. Paul returns to Ephesus, and at the request of the church writes his Gospel.

Finis.

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