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Sulpitius Severus (c. 363 – c. 425) -
"... The world was created by God nearly six [1] thousand years ago, as we shall set forth in the course of this book ... [1. Sulpitius follows the Greek [LXX] version, which ascribes many more years to the fathers of mankind than does the original Hebrew.]" - Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers; Second Series Volume XI;Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian; Edited by Philip Schaff & Rev. Henry Wallace; Cosimo Classics, New York; 1894; ISBN 978-1-60206-527-7; The Sacred History of Sulpitius Severus, Book I. Chapter II. Paragraph 1.; page 71 - https://books.google.com/books?id=LjafWkK9O3QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Apostolic Constitutions (375 to 380 AD) -
 
"... Therefore let the philosophers, who enumerate thousands of ages from the beginning of the world, know that the six thousandth year is not yet completed, and that when this number is completed the consummation must take place, and the condition of human affairs be remodelled for the better, the proof of which must first be related, that the matter itself may be plain. God completed the world and this admirable work of nature in the space of six days, as is contained in the secrets of Holy Scripture, and consecrated the seventh day, on which He had rested from His works. But this is the Sabbath-day, which in the language of the Hebrews received its name from the number, [1385] whence the seventh is the legitimate and complete number. For there are seven days, by the revolutions of which in order the circles of years are made up; and there are seven stars which do not set, and seven luminaries which are called planets, [1386] whose differing and unequal movements are believed to cause the varieties of circumstances and times. [1387]
 
Therefore, since all the works of God were completed in six days, the world must continue in its present state through six ages, that is, six thousand years. For the great day of God is limited by a circle of a thousand years, as the prophet shows, who says [1388] “In Thy sight, O Lord, a thousand years are as one day.” And as God laboured during those six days in creating such great works, so His religion and truth must labour during these six thousand years, while wickedness prevails and bears rule. And again, since God, having finished His works, rested the seventh day and blessed it, at the end of the six thousandth year all wickedness must be abolished from the earth, and righteousness reign for a thousand years; and there must be tranquillity and rest from the labours which the world now has long endured. But how that will come to pass I will explain in its order. We have often said that lesser things and things of small importance are figures and previous shadowings forth of great things; as this day of ours, which is bounded by the rising and the setting of the sun, is a representation [1389] [1389. Ps. xc. 4; see also 2 Pet. iii. 8.] of that great day to which the circuit of a thousand years affixes its limits. [1390] ..." - Apostolic Constitutions, Book VII (7), Chapter XIV (14) - Of the First and Last Times of the World, by Philip Schaff; ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies; pages 317-318 (PDF 337-338) - http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1819-1893,_Schaff._Philip,_1_Vol_07_Fathers_Of_The_Third_And_Fourth_Centuries,_EN.pdf
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Gaudentius of Brescia (Brixiensis) (Bishop from 387 until 410) -

"... St. Gaudentius, Bishop of Brescia, thus writes in the tenth century: "We are in expectation of that truly holy day of the seventh thousand which will follow after these six days, namely, after these six thousand years; which being completed, there will be a rest to real sanctity and to the true believers in the resurrection of Christ. For then there will be no fight or struggle against the Devil, who will be kept bound in the infernal abyss." [3] [3. Expectamus illum vere sanctum septimi millesimi anni diem, qui adveniet post istos sex dies, sex millium videlicet annorum [page 202-203] saeculi, quibus completis requies erit verae sanctitati, et fideliter credentibus in resurrectione Christi. Nam nulla erit ibi pugna contra diabolum, qui tunc ubique detinebitur suppliciis religatus. (In Tractatu 10.) ..." - The End of the World; or, The Second Coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.; by the very Rev. John Baptist Pagani. London: Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond Street; and 22, Paternoster Row. 1855., pages 202-203. - https://books.google.com/books?id=-pYCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Latin of "Pagani" slightly differs than the Latin of "Glueck", but the general translation or understanding basically remains unchanged:
"... [page 96; paragraph 14; line 137] septimum iam vocatum futurum dicit sanctum [page 96-97], septimum millesimum scilicet annum, de quo ait propheta ad dominum: Quoniam mille anni ante oculos tuos sicut dies unus. [page 96-97; paragraphs 14-15; lines 137-140] ..."
"... [page 97; paragraph 15; line 148] expectamus etiam illum vere sanctum diem, septimi millesimi anni diem, qui adveniet post istos sex dies, sex millium quippe annorum saeculi, quibus completis requies erit vera sanctis et fideliter credentibus in resurrectione Christi. Nam nulla erit ibi pugna contra diabolum, qui tunc utique tenebitur suppliciis religatus [page 97; paragraphs 15-16; lines 148-154] ..." - ["v" (generally) = English" "u"] Corpvs Scriptorvm Ecclesiasticorvm Latinorvm; Editvm Consilio Et Impensis; Academiae Litterarvm Vindobonensis.; Volume LXVIII (68): S. Gavdentii Tractatvs.; Recensvit Ambrosivs Glveck.; Vindobonae., Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G.; Lipsiae., Akademische Verlags-Gesellschaft M.B.H.; MCMXXXVI. (1936). S. Gavdentii Episcopi Brixiensis Tractatvs. Ad Fidem Codicvc, Recensvit; Ambrosivs Glveck.; Vindobonae., Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G.; Lipsiae., Akademische Verlags-Gesellschaft M.B.H.; MCMXXXVI. (1936). Tractatus X, De Exodi lectione VIII.; pages 96,97, paragraphs 14-16, lines 137-140, 148-154 - https://books.google.com/books?id=13AOAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Tyconius (also spelled Tyconius or Tychonius) (active 370–390 AD) -
 
English (loose translation):

"... the age of the world is given in the six days, that is six thousand years. ..."

Latin:

"... sex dies sunt mundi aetas, id est sex milia annorum. ..." - Texts and Studies; contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, edited by J. Armitage Robinson B.D.; Hon. PH.D. Gottengen; Hon. D.D. Halle; Norrisian Professor of Divinity; Volume III., No. 1. The Rules of Tyconius; Cambridge at the University Press. 1894. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, Ave Maria Lane. Glasgow: 263, Argyle Street.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus.; New York: Macmillan and Co.; The Book of Rules of Tyconius, Newly Edited from the MSS with an Introduction and an Examination into the Text of the Biblical Quotations by F. C. Burkitt, M.A., Cambridge at the University Press., 1894.; V. De Temporibus; page 56; lines 13-14 - https://archive.org/stream/bookofrulesoftyc00ticouoft#page/n183/mode/1up

English (loose translation):

"... As the world works for six days, so the spiritual world, which is the church, at work for six thousand years, then ceasing, He blessed the seventh day, making it eternal. ..."

Latin:

"... sicut enim mundum istum sex diebus operatus est, ita mundum spiritalem, qui est Ecclesia, per sex milia annos operatur, cessaturus die septimo quem benedixit, fecitque aeternum. ..." - Texts and Studies; contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, edited by J. Armitage Robinson B.D.; Hon. PH.D. Gottengen; Hon. D.D. Halle; Norrisian Professor of Divinity; Volume III., No. 1. The Rules of Tyconius; Cambridge at the University Press. 1894. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, Ave Maria Lane. Glasgow: 263, Argyle Street.; Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus.; New York: Macmillan and Co.; The Book of Rules of Tyconius, Newly Edited from the MSS with an Introduction and an Examination into the Text of the Biblical Quotations by F. C. Burkitt, M.A., Cambridge at the University Press., 1894.; V. De Temporibus; page 61; lines 30-33 - https://archive.org/stream/bookofrulesoftyc00ticouoft#page/n188/mode/1up

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Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) - (while at one time believing the same as others, changed his mind)
"... Chap. 7. - What is written in the Revelation of John regarding the two resurrections, and the Thousand Years, and what may reasonably be held on these points.
The evangelist John has spoken of these two resurrections in the book which is called the Apocalypse, but in such a way that some Christians do not understand the first of the two, and so construe the passage into ridiculous fancies. For the Apostle John says in the foresaid book, "And I saw an angel come down from heaven . ... Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, [left column to right column] and shall reign with Him a thousand years." [1] Those who, on the strength of this passage, have suspected that the first resurrection is future and bodily, have been moved, among other things, specially by the number of a thousand years, as if it were a fit thing that the saints should thus enjoy a kind of Sabbath-rest during that period, a holy leisure after the labors of the six thousand years since man was created, and was on account of his great sin dismissed from the blessedness of paradise into the woes of this mortal life, so that this, as it is written, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day," [2] there should follow on the completion of six thousand years, as of six days, a kind of seventh-day Sabbath in the succeeding thousand years; and that it is for this purpose the saints rise, viz., to celebrate this Sabbath. And this opinion would not be objectionable, if it were believed that the joys of the saints in that Sabbath shall be spiritual, and consequent on the presence of God; for I myself, too, once held this opinion. [3] [1. Rev. XX. 1-6. The whole passage is quoted.; 2. 2 Pet. iii. 8.; 3. Serm. 259.; 4. Milliarii.; 5 [Agustin, who had formerly himself entertained chiliastic hopes, revolutionized the prevailing anti-Nicene view of the Apocalyptic millennium by understanding it of the present reign of Christ in the Church. See Schaff, Church History, vol. ii. 619. --P.S.] ...] ..." - A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church.; Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. in connection with a number of Patristic Scholars of Europe and America. Volume II. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1887.; The City of God; Book XX; Chapter 7; page 426 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tzwwAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Latin:
"... [VII] De his duabus resurrectionibus idem Iohannes euangelista in libro, qui dicitur apocalypsis, eo modo locutus est, ut earum prima a quibusdam nostris non intellecta insuper etiam in quasdam ridiculas fabulas uerteretur. Ait quippe in libro memorato Iohannes apostolus: Et uidi angelum descendentem de caelo, habentem clauem abyssi et catenam in manu sua. Et tenuit draconem illum serpentem antiquum, qui cognominatus est diabolus et satanas, <et> alligauit illum mille annis et misit illum in abyssum; et clusit et signauit super eum, ut non seduceret iam gentes, donec finiantur mille anni, post haec oportet eum solui breui tempore. Et uidi sedes et sedentes super eas, et iudicium datum est. Et animae occisorum propter testimonium Iesu et propter uerbum Dei, et si qui non adorauerunt bestiam nec imaginem eius, neque acceperunt inscriptionem in fronte aut in manu sua, et regnauerunt cum Iesu mille annis; reliqui eorum non uixerunt, donec finiantur mille anni. Haec resurrectio prima est. Beatus et sanctus est, qui habet in hac prima resurrectione partem. In istis secunda mors non habet potestatem; sed erunt sacerdotes Dei et Christi et regnabunt cum eo mille annis. Qui propter haec huius libri uerba primam resurrectionem futuram suspicati sunt corporalem, inter cetera maxime numero annorum mille permoti sunt, tamquam oporteret in sanctis eo modo uelut tanti temporis fieri sabbatismum, uacatione scilicet sancta post labores annorum sex milium, ex quo creatus est homo et magni illius peccati merito in huius mortalitatis aerumnas de paradisi felicitate dimissus est, ut, quoniam scriptum est: Vnus dies apud Dominum sicut mille anni, et mille anni sicut dies unus, sex annorum milibus tamquam sex diebus impletis, sequatur uelut septimus sabbati in annis mille postremis, ad hoc scilicet sabbatum celebrandum resurgentibus sanctis. Quae opinio esset utcumque tolerabilis, si aliquae deliciae spiritales in illo sabbato adfuturae sanctis per Domini praesentiam crederentur. Nam etiam nos hoc opinati fuimus aliquando ..." - De Civitate Dei, Liber XX. Cap. vii [PDF, 449.450] -
https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n449/mode/1up

https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n450/mode/1up

Further he said:
"... Chapter 10 - Of the falseness of the History which allots many thousand years to the world's past. ...

... They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed. [5] [5. Agustin here follows the chronology of Eusebius ...] ..." - A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church.; Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. in connection with a number of Patristic Scholars of Europe and America. Volume II. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1887.; The City of God; Book XII; Chapter 10; page 232 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tzwwAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Latin:

"... [X] Fallunt etiam eos quaedam mendacissimae literae: quas perhibent in historia temporum multa anorum milia continere, cum ex literis sacris ab institutione homis nondum completa annorum sex milia computemus. ..." - De Civitate Dei, Liber XII. Cap. x. [PDF 247] - https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n247/mode/1up

He further said:
"... Chapter 12--How these persons are to be answered, who find fault with the creation of man on the score of its recent date ...

... As to those who are always asking why man was not created during these countless ages of the infinitely extended past, and came into being so lately that, according to Scripture, less than 6000 years have elapsed since He began to be, I would reply to them regarding the creation of man, just as I replied regarding the origin of the world to those who will not believe that it is not eternal, but had a beginning, which even Plato himself most plainly declares, though some think his statement was not consistent with his real opinion. [2] [left column to right column] If it offends them that the time that has elapsed since the creation of man is so short, and his years so few according to our authorities, let them take this into consideration, that nothing that has a limit is long, and that all the ages of time being finite, are very little, or indeed nothing at all, when compared to the interminable eternity. Consequently, if there had elapsed since the creation of man, I do not say five or six, but even sixty or six hundred thousand years, or sixty times as many, or six hundred or six hundred thousand times as many, or this sum multiplied until it could no longer be expressed in numbers, the same question could still be put, Why was he not made before? ..." - A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church.; Edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York. in connection with a number of Patristic Scholars of Europe and America. Volume II. St. Augustin's City of God and Christian Doctrine.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1887.; The City of God; Book XII; Chapter 12; page 233 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tzwwAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Latin:
"... Quod autem respondimus, cum de mundi origine quaestio uerteretur, eis, qui nolunt credere non eum semper fuisse, sed esse coepisse, sicut etiam Plato apertissime confitetur, quamuis a nonnullis contra quam loquitur sensisse credatur: hoc etiam de prima hominis conditione responderim, propter eos, qui similiter mouentur, cur homo per innumerabilia atque infinita retro tempora creatus non sit tamque sero sit creatus, ut minus quam sex milia sint annorum, ex quo esse coepisse in sacris litteris inuenitur. Si enim breuitas eos offendit temporis, quod tam pauci eis uidentur anni, ex quo institutus homo in nostris auctoritatibus legitur: considerent nihil esse diuturnum , in quo est aliquid extremum, et omnia saeculorum spatia definita, si aeternitati interminae comparentur, non exigua existimanda esse, sed nulla. Ac per hoc si non quinque uel sex, uerum etiam sexaginta milia siue sescenta, aut sexagiens aut sescentiens aut sescentiens miliens dicerentur annorum, aut itidem per totidem totiens multipficaretur haec summa, ubi iam nullum numeri nomen haberemus, ex quo Deus hominem fecit: similiter quaeri posset, cur ante non fecerit. ..." - De Civitate Dei, Liber XII. Cap. xii. [PDF 248] - https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n248/mode/1up/
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Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer, Midrash (c.630 - c.1030 CE) -

"The Midrash in Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer comments:

Six eons for going in and coming out, for war and peace. The seventh eon is entirely Shabbat and rest for life everlasting.[3]" - https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/3930?embed=1

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The 'venerable' Bede (672/3 – 26 May 735) -

"... 10. THE WEEK OF THE WOLRD AGES [107]

The eighth kind of week, unvarying and unique in that it does not come back again to its beginning, is composed of the unstable Ages of this [page 39-40] world and follows in all respects the pattern of the first week. For on the first day, light was created, and in the First Age man was placed in the beauties of paradise. When light was divided from darkness, evening was made, and evil came about when the sons of God were separated from [their] seed. Not long after, when the giants were born, the whole earth was corrupted; at that point the Creator, regretting that He had made man, determined to destroy the world by a flood.

On the second day, the firmament was suspended in the midst of the waters; in the Second Age, the Ark was borne up in the midst of the waters, at once carried aloft on the fountain of the deep, and deluged by the cataracts of heaven. The evening of this day was when the sons of Adam, making their way from the east, conspired to build the tower of vainglory; they were punished by the division of languages, and scattered from one another.

On the third day, when the waters were gathered together, dry land appeared, adorned with woods and grasses; and in the Third Age, when the nations were rooted in the worship of demons, Abraham the patriarch, leaving his people and his homeland, was made fruitful in the seed of the saints. The evening came when /311/ the Hebrew people, beset by wicked men, acted against the will of God and demanded a king of their own, who, as soon as he was set upon the throne, butchered the priests of the Lord and the Prophets. Afterwards, he and all his clan perished by the sword of the foreigners.

On the fourth day the heaven was adorned with lights; in the Fourth Age this people, renowned for it heavenly faith and glorying in the rule of David and Solomon, won fame throughout the whole world for the splendor of its most holy Temple. But it too had its evening; because sin increased that realm was shattered by the Chaldeans, the Temple demolished and the whole nation carried off to Babylon.

On the fifth day the fishes and birds came forth from the water; the former remained in their native waves, while the latter flew over air and land. In the Fifth Age the people of Israel multiplied in Chaldea; some of them sought out Jerusalem, fledged in the plumage of heavenly yearnings, and others abode amongst the rivers of Babylon, lacking all powers of flight. The evening arrived when, with the Saviour's advent imminent, the Jewish people was made tributary to the Romans because of the magnitude of their wicked deeds, and moreover was oppressed by foreign-born kings.

On the sixth day the earth was filled with its living creatures, and the [page 40-41] first man was made in the image of God; subsequently, woman was fashioned from a rib taken from his side while he slept. in the Sixth Age, as the Prophets foretold, the Son of God appeared, who would recreate man in the image of God. [108] As he slept upon the Cross, water and blood flowed from his side, from which he would consecrate the Church to himself. The evening of thi Age, darker than all the others, will come in Antichrist; persecution. [109] /312/

On the seventh day, when his labours were ended, God rested, blessing that day, he bade it be called "sabbath", and we do not read that it had an evening. in the Seventh Age the souls of the righteous, when the excellent labours of their lives are finished, will rest forever in another life which will never be blemished by any sorrow, but rather will culminate in the greater glory of the Resurrection. For man, this Age began when the first martyr Abel, his body having been laid to rest in the earth, entered in spirit into the sabbath of perpetual rest. it will be complete when the saints, having received their bodies [back], shall possess a double measure in their land, [110] and everlasting joy shall be theirs. This is the Eighth Age, [111] concerning which the sixth Psalm was written. [112] I believe that in the Six Ages of this world we ought to pray for the Seventh or Eighth Age of the world. Because the just shall receive joy, but the wicked punishment, the Psalm concerning this Age begins, proceeds and ends in great fear: O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, etc. ..." - Bede, The Reckoning of Time, Translated, with introduction, notes and commentary by Faith Wallis; Liverpool University Press; Senate House, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 3BX (1999) - ISBN 0-85323-693-3; pages 39-41 - https://books.google.com/books?id=yFsw-Vaup6sC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

In Latin:

"... Caput X. De Hebdomada Aetatum Seculi.

Octava species hebdomadis uniformis, et sola sine circuitu revolutionis extans, ad figuram per omnia primae hebdomadis labentibus hujus seculi conficitur aetatibus. Prima enim die facta est lux, et prima aetate homo in paradisi amoenitate locatur. Divisa luce a tenebris factum est vesperum, et separatis Dei filiis a semine nequam, non longe post natis Gigantibus corrupta est monis terra, donec Creator poenitens se hominem fecisse, mundum diluvio perdere disponeret. Secunda die firmamentum in medio libratur auarum: secunda aetate arca in media fertur aquarum, hinc fonte abyssi supportata, illinc coeli cataractis compluta quae habuit vesperam, quando filii [page 166-167] Adam pedes ab Oriente moventes, qui in construenda superbiae turre convenerant, linguarum divisione multati, et ab invicem sunt dispersi. Tertia die aquis in congregationem unam coactis apparuit arida, sylvis herbisque decora: et tertia aetate firmatis in cultu daemonum nationibus, Abraham patriarcha cognationem patiramque deserens, sanctorumque semine foecundatur. Advenit et vespera quando gens Hebraea malis coacta prementibus contra Dei voluntatem regem sibi petit, qui mox ordinatus primo Domini sacerdotes Prophetasque trucidat, postmodum ipse cum tota gente gladio periit Allophylorum. Quarto die coelum luminaribus ornatur: quarta aetate gens illa coelesti fide inclyta, regno David et Solomonis gloriosa, templi etiam sanctissimi altitudine totum nobilitatur in orbem. Sed accepit et vesperam, quando crebrescentibus peccatis regnum illud a Chaldaeis dissipatum, templum dirutum, et tota gens est Babyloniam translata. Quinta die pisces avesque aquis eductae, hi patriis manent undis, illae aera terramque pervolant: quinta aetate multiplicatus in Chaldaea populus Israel, par coelestium desideriorum pennis fulta Hierosolymam petunt, pars volatu destituta virtutum inter Babyloniae fluenta resident. Successit et vespera, quando imminente jam Salvatoris adventu gens Judaea propter scelerum magnitudinem Romanis tributaria facta, insuper et alienigenis est regibus pressa. Sexta die terra suis animantibus impletur, et homo primus ad imaginem Dei creatur, moxquw ex ejus latere dormientis sumpta costa foemina fabricatur: sexta aetate praeconantibus prophetis filis Dei in carne, qui hominem ad imaginem Dei recrearet, apparuit, qui obdormiens in cruce, sanguinem et aquam de latere, unde sibi ecclesiam consecraret emanavit. Hujus aetati vespera caeteris obscurior in Antichristi est persecutione ventura. Septima die consummatis operibus suis Deus requievit, eamque [page 167-168] significans sabbatum nuncupari praecepit, quae vesperam habuisse non legitur. Septima aetate justorum animae post optimos hujus vitae labores in alia vita perpetuo requiescunt, quae nulla unquam tristitia maculabitur. Haec aetas hominibus tunc coepit, quando primus martyr Abel, corpore quidem tumulum, spiritu autem sabbatum perpetuae quietis intravit. Perficietur autem, quando receptis sancti corporibus in terra sua duplicia possidebunt, laetitia sempiterna erit eis, et ipsa est Octava, pro qua VI Psalmus inscribitur, credo quia in sex hujus seculi aetatibus pro septima vel octava illius seculi aetate est supplicandum. In qua quia justi gaudia, sed reprobi sunt supplicia percepturi, Psalmus hic ingenti pavore incipit, currit, finitur: Domine ne in ira tua arguas me, &. ..." - The Miscellaneous Works of Venerable Bede, in the Original Latin, collated with the manuscripts, and various printed editions, accompanied by a New English Translation of the Historical Works, and A Life of the Author. by the Rev. J. A. Giles, D.C.L. Late Fellow of C.C.C., Oxford. Volume VI. Scientific Tracts and Appendix. London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. MDCCCXLIII. (1843); pages 166-168 [PDF 190-192] - https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneouswo00gilegoog#page/n190/mode/1up

https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneouswo00gilegoog#page/n191/mode/1up

https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneouswo00gilegoog#page/n192/mode/1up

(Latin AM 3952) -

"... A.M. 3952 [A.D.1.] Anno Caesaris Augusti XLII, a morte vero Cleopatrae et Antonii, quando et Aegyptus in provinciam versa est, anno XXVII, Olympiadis CXCIII anno tertio: ab urbe autem condita anno DCCLII, id est, eo anno, quo compressis cunctarum per orbem terrae gentium motibus, firmissimam verissimamque pacem ordinatione Dei Caesar composuit, Jesus Christus filius Dei sextam mundi aetatem suo consercravit adventu. Anno imperii Augusti XLVII Herodes, morbo intercutis aquae, et scatentibus tot corpore vermibus, miserabiliter et digne moritur, pro quo substitutus ab Augusto filius ehus Archelaus regnavit annis IX, id est, usque ad ipsius Augusti finem. Tunc enim non ferentibus ultra, sed accusantibus apud Augustum ferocita- [page 300-301] tem ejus Judaeis, in Viennam urbem Galliae relegatur, et ad minuendam Judaici regni potentiam, insolentiamque domandam, quatuor fratres ejus pro eo sunt Tetrarchae creati, Herodes, Antipater, Lysais et Philippus: quorum Philippus et Herodes, qui Antipas prius nuncupabatur, etiam viente Archelao Tetrarche fuerant ordinati. ..." - The Miscellaneous Works of Venerable Bede, in the Original Latin, collated with the manuscripts, and various printed editions, accompanied by a New English Translation of the Historical Works, and A Life of the Author. by the Rev. J. A. Giles, D.C.L. Late Fellow of C.C.C., Oxford. Volume VI. Scientific Tracts and Appendix. London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. MDCCCXLIII. (1843); pages 300-301 [PDF 324-325] - https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneouswo00gilegoog#page/n324/mode/1up

https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneouswo00gilegoog#page/n325/mode/1up

See also - Venerabilis Bedae presbyteride temporibus siue de ser aetatibus huius seculi Liber Incipit. [left hand margin, “3952”]- https://archive.org/stream/venerabilisbedae00bede_0#page/n41/mode/1up

See also (introduction) - https://books.google.com/books?id=YQjHoQAZKX0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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"The Persian writer/philosopher" (Syriac) [name unknown; unknown year] -
"Chap2. On this that the Persian writer saith, that on the accomplishement of 6000 years this world will come to an end. ..." - Syriac Miscellanies; or Extracts relating to the First and Second General Councils, and various other quotations, Theological, Historical, & Classical. Translated into English from MSS. in the British Museum and Imperial Library of Paris. With Notes by B.H. Cowper.; Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, London; and 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh. MDCCCLXI. (1861); Extracts from Christian Authors. George, An Arabian Bishop. [61], From the Reply to the nine questions of Jesus Habishi (the recluse), a Presbyter of the town of Banab. Chapter 2, page 67 - https://books.google.com/books?id=74gOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
"... [page 108; "Observations"] [61] George, it seems, lived in the earlier part of the 8th century, and appears to have been a Bishop among the Arabs. He addresses the treatise from which the extracts are taken, to a friend who resided at Banab or Banabe, which was in Mesopotamia, near the Euphrates (see Ptolemy v.18). This treatise has been printed by Dr. de Lagarde, and is taken from a volume containing more by the same writer (Add. MSS. 12145. See also 12144, 12165). The style is prolix, but the author says some things at least in which the Chronological student will be interested. His notices of "the wise Persian," whom I take to be Jacob of Nisibis, are by no means unimportant; and his account of Gregory the Armenian is positively valuable, so absolutely have his followers encumbered his history with fables. I have merely given the headings of the last four chapters. For the Mar Jacob alluded to on p. 67, see also p. 83. [page 108; "Observations"] ..." - Syriac Miscellanies; or Extracts relating to the First and Second General Councils, and various other quotations, Theological, Historical, & Classical. Translated into English from MSS. in the British Museum and Imperial Library of Paris. With Notes by B.H. Cowper.; Williams and Norgate, 14, Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, London; and 20, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh. MDCCCLXI. (1861); Observations [notations], page 108 - https://books.google.com/books?id=74gOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–c.1167) (I could not locate as available online the original source; Abraham Ibn Ezra commentary on the Pentateuch; Genesis 1:15) -
"... There is a secret meaning to the midrashic statement to the effect that the world will exist for 6,000 years. (I.E. (Abraham Aben Ezra) on Genesis 1:15, Volume 1, page 33.) ..." - Ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Pentateuch: Deuteronomy (Devatim) by Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, edited by ‎H. Norman Strickman, ‎Arthur M. Silver, page vii - https://www.google.com/search?biw=840&bih=429&tbm=bks&ei=H45sW4zqEY7z0wKO2LDQCw&q=%22There+is+a+secret+meaning+to+the+midrashic+statement+to+the+effect+that+the+world+will+exist+for+6%2C000+years.%22&oq=%22There+is+a+secret+meaning+to+the+midrashic+statement+to+the+effect+that+the+world+will+exist+for+6%2C000+years.%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...42321.42710.0.42918.3.3.0.0.0.0.102.102.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.0.0....0.ltrSqFiJDlE
or - https://books.google.com/books?id=LjglAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22There+is+a+secret+meaning+to+the+midrashic+statement+to+the+effect+that+the+world+will+exist+for+6%2C000+years.%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=secret+meaning
or Abraham ibn Ezra's "Yesod Mora", by: H. Norman Strickman; [PDF page 25] - http://www.hakirah.org/vol%2012%20strickman.pdf
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Florentius of Worcester (Wigorniensi) (died 1118) (or John of Worcestor (died c. 1140), some sources say this was the author) & Marianus Scotus (1028–1082 or 1083) -

"... the past being 3952 years, this is, the 7th great cycle & [adding] 228 years from Adam to the birth of the LORD [Jesus] according to the Hebrew [text], testifies Bede, which makes [comes to], the year 4182. ..."

"... Quia ergo antea 3952. anni, id est, septem magni cicli & 228. anni ab Adam usque ad Nativitatem Domini secundum Hebraeos, teste Beda, fuerant, fiunt, 4182. anni ..." - Chronicon ex Chronicis, ab initio mundi usque ad annum Domini. 1118. deductum, Auctore Florentio Wigorniensi monacho. Accessit etiam continuation usque; ad annum Christi. 1141. per quendam eiusdem coenobii eruditun. Nunquam antehac in lucem eitum. Londoni, Excudebat Thomas Dautonus, pro Ricardo Watkins. 1592. (based on Marianus Scotus (1028–1082 or 1083)); page 8 - https://archive.org/stream/chroniconexchron00flor#page/8/mode/1up

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