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Sacred History

Sulpicius Severus, NPNF II.11

Book 1, I address myself to give a condensed account of those things which are set forth…
Book 1, The world was created by God nearly six thousand years ago, as we shall set forth…
Book 1, God being offended by these things, and especially by the wickedness of mankind,…
Book 1, Then Noah first of all erected an altar to God, and offered sacrifices from among…
Book 1, Abraham, whose father was Thara, was born in the one thousand and seventeenth…
Book 1, AT the same time God spoke to Abraham, and promised that his seed was to be…
Book 1, Almost at the same time, when Abraham was now a hundred years old, his son Isaac…
Book 1, Now, Rebecca, having long been barren, at length, through the unceasing prayers…
Book 1, Laban had two daughters, Leah and Rachel; but Leah had tender eyes, while Rachel…
Book 1, Israel, therefore, avoiding the house of his brother, sent forward his company to…
Book 1, About this same time, Judah, the son of Jacob, took in marriage Sava, a woman of…
Book 1, IN the mean time, affairs having been well settled in Egypt to meet the famine, a…
Book 1, It is almost incredible to relate how the Hebrews who had come down into Egypt so…
Book 1, But the Hebrews, oppressed by the multiplied evils of slavery, directed their…
Book 1, But on the day before the people went out of Egypt, being as yet unacquainted…
Book 1, Then Moses, exulting in the safety of his own people, and in the destruction of…
Book 1, The people going on from thence, and being again tried with want of water, hardly…
Book 1, These things being said by God, while the trumpets uttered their voices, the…
Book 1, Moses reported these words of God to the people, and placed an altar of twelve…
Book 1, Then follows the book of Leviticus, in which the precepts bearing upon sacrifice…
Book 1, There followed the revolt of those, who, with Dathan and Abiron as leaders,…
Book 1, After the death of Moses, the chief power passed into the hands of Joshua the son…
Book 1, When this became known to the kings of the neighboring nations, they made a…
Book 1, After the death of Joshua, the people acted without a leader. But a necessity of…
Book 1, Accordingly, when the Midianites, as we have related above, ruled over them, they…
Book 1, But on the death of Gideon, his son Abimelech, whose mother was a concubine,…
Book 1, The Israelites yet again turned to idols; and, being deprived of the divine…
Book 1, AT that time Samson ruled over the Hebrews, the Philistines having been subdued…
Book 1, About these times, civil war, as we have said, had broken out; and the following…
Book 1, The Hebrews, then, as I have narrated above, were living according to their own…
Book 1, The Philistines, victorious in this prosperous battle, brought the ark of God,…
Book 1, AT this time, Samuel the priest ruled over the Hebrews; and there being a…
Book 1, Accordingly, Saul, having been first anointed by Samuel with the sacerdotal oil,…
Book 1, God, displeased with what had been done, spoke to Samuel, saying that he repented…
Book 1, The hatred of the king towards him increased daily, under the influence of…
Book 1, AT that time Samuel died. Saul, when the Philistines made war upon him, consulted…
Book 1, Saul having thus been cut off, David, when the news of his death was brought to…
Book 1, AT this time, he knew in a guilty way Bersabe, a woman of remarkable beauty. She…
Book 1, Solomon in the beginning of his reign surrounded the city with a wall. To him…
Book 1, Trusting in these resources, Solomon set about erecting a temple of immense size…
Book 1, For, on the death of Solomon in the fortieth year of his reign, Roboam his son…
Book 1, In his room Abiud his son held the kingdom at Jerusalem for six years, although…
Book 1, In the time of his reign, Ahab, the son of Ambri, was king of the ten tribes,…
Book 1, At that time, Ahab, king of Samaria, coveted the vineyard of Naboth, which was…
Book 1, HE being sick in body, and having sent some of his servants to consult an idol…
Book 1, But Jeu possessed the kingdom of Joram. After the death of Ochozia in Judaea,…
Book 1, Ozias, then, the son of Amassia, succeeded to him. For, on the side of the ten…
Book 1, The remarkable faith of the Ninevites is related to have been manifested about…
Book 1, But in Samaria, Zacharia the king, who was very wicked, and whom we have spoken…
Book 1, To him succeeded Ezekias his son, a man very unlike his father in character. For,…
Book 1, By this news Sennacherim was led to return in order to defend his own…
Book 1, The government then passed to his son Josia. He is related to have been very…
Book 1, Joachas, his son, having then obtained the kingdom, held it for three months,…
Book 1, Meanwhile Sedechias, the king of the useless multitude, although without power,…
Book 2, The times of the captivity have been rendered illustrious by the predictions and…
Book 2, AT that time, Nabuchodonosor had a dream marvelous for that insight into the…
Book 2, Accordingly, as the prophet interpreted the matter, the image which was seen…
Book 2, But in Judaea, over which, as we have related above, Godolin was set after the …
Book 2, At this period of time, Nabuchodonosor elated with prosperity, erected a golden…
Book 2, After Nabuchodonosor, the kingdom fell to his son, whom I find called Euilmarodac…
Book 2, Those, therefore, who were possessed of power along with him, stimulated by envy,…
Book 2, Him Cyrus, his grandson by his daughter, expelled from the kingdom, having used…
Book 2, In the meantime, those Jews, who, as we have said above, returned into their…
Book 2, Next, Darius, under whom the temple was restored, obtained the kingdom, his name…
Book 2, There was at that time at Babylon one Nehemiah, a servant of the king, a Jew by…
Book 2, At this period of time we think Esther and Judith lived, but I confess that I…
Book 2, At this time, Mardochaeus was among those nearest to the king, having entirely…
Book 2, To this series of events it will be right that I should append an account of the…
Book 2, The Jews, then, having returned, as we have narrated above, to their native land,…
Book 2, When this became known to Judith (a widow woman of great wealth, and remarkable…
Book 2, Against him Alexander of Macedon engaged in war. And on his being conquered, the …
Book 2, For, first of all, under king Seleucus, the son of Antiochus the great, a certain…
Book 2, But that the order of the dates may be correctly preserved, and that it may…
Book 2, AT that time, Matthathias, the son of John, was high-priest. When he was being…
Book 2, In the meantime, Matthathias dies, having appointed in his own place his son…
Book 2, Judah, on the defeat of the enemy, returned to Jerusalem, and bent his mind on…
Book 2, At that time Judah besieged the Syrians who were posted in the citadel. They,…
Book 2, While these things are going on in Judaea,a certain young man educated at Rhodes,…
Book 2, Demetrius having thus obtained the kingdom, treated Jonathan with kindness, made…
Book 2, Well, then, after Jonathan, his brother Simon, as has been said above, ruled over…
Book 2, Then Herod, a foreigner, the son of Antipater of Askelon, asked and received the …
Book 2, Luke made known the doings of the apostles up to the time when Paul was brought…
Book 2, In the meantime, the number of the Christians being now very large, it happened…
Book 2, So then, after the departure of Nero, Galba seized the government; and ere long,…
Book 2, Then, after an interval, Domitian, the son of Vespasian, persecuted the…
Book 2, After Adrian, the churches had peace under the rule of Antoninus Pius. Then the…
Book 2, Well, the end of the persecutions was reached eighty-eight years ago, at which…
Book 2, Through the kind efforts of the same queen, the cross of the Lord was then found.…
Book 2, Such were the things accomplished by Helena, while, under a Christian prince, the…
Book 2, Accordingly, they first attack and condemn in his absence Athanasius, bishop of …
Book 2, When, after an interval of some time had elapsed, Athanasius, finding that…
Book 2, But then the Arians, seeing that stratagem did not succeed, determined to proceed…
Book 2, From this first proof that the prince had been won over to their side, the Arians…
Book 2, IN the meantime, the Arians, not secretly, as before, but openly and publicly…
Book 2, Accordingly, the emperor orders a Synod to assemble at Ariminum, a city of Italy,…
Book 2, IN the meantime in the East, after the example of the West, the emperor ordered…
Book 2, IN the meantime, the emperor compels those deputies of our party who had been…
Book 2, But these, the fewer they became, showed themselves all the more powerful; as the…
Book 2, Thus, then, the Arians, with their affairs in a very flourishing condition, and …
Book 2, There follow the times of our own day, both difficult and dangerous. In these the…
Book 2, So, then, after many controversies among them, which are not worthy of mention, a…
Book 2, And then Instantius, Salvianus, and Priscillian set out for Rome, in order that…
Book 2, But the power, not the will, to resist, failed Ithacius; for the heretics had won…
Book 2, Thus, then, all whom the process embraced were brought before the king. The…
Book 2, But Ithacius, seeing how much ill-will it would excite against him among the…