Unknown, Easter Chronicle 430.6-13
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τὴν Παλαιστίνην Καισάρειαν

, and

Caesarea Palestinae

are directly attested at Unknown, Easter Chronicle 430.6-13. This passage was written ca. ca. 630 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. The so-called Easter Chronicle (Chronicon paschale) is a universal history from the Creation down to the later reign of Heraclius, when it was composed, based on an amalgam of biblical, Christian, and secular sources. While the work shows a particular interest in the dating of religious festivals, it contains a wealth of historical and geographic information. Like other chronographic works in the Byzantine tradition—John Malalas before and Theophanes the Confessor and George Syncellus after—the Easter Chronicle is organized annalistically with successive entries by year. In this passage the author cites the conversions of the Ethiopian eunuch and Cornelius by Philip and Peter.

Τούτῳ τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει τῆς εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀναλήψεως τοῦ κυρίου, Φίλιππος ὁ ἀπόστολος τὸν εὐνοῦχον Κανδάκης τῆς βασιλίσσης Αἰθιόπων ἀπαρχὴν τῆς τῶν ἐθνῶν κλήσεως τῷ τοῦ Χριστοῦ κηρύηματι ὑπηγάγετο. Τῷ αὐτῷ ἔτει πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὴν Παλαιστίνην Καισάρειαν Κορνήλιος σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ οἰκῷ αὐτοῦ δι’ ἐπιφανείας θείας, ὑπουργίᾳ δὲ Πέτρου τοῦ ἀποστόλου, τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν πίστιν κατεδέξατο.

[Ed. Dindorf 1832]

[32 C.E.] In this the second year after the Assumption of the Lord into the heavens, Philip the Apostle led the eunuch of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, under the preaching of Christ, the first-offering of the call to the Gentiles. In the same year Cornelius accepted faith in Christ, the first of those in Caesarea Palestinae, along with his entire household, through divine epiphany and with the helpful service of Peter the Apostle. [Trans. J. L. Rife]

Works Cited

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[Ethiopia]

[Candace, Ethiopian queen

Cornelius, early Christian at Caesarea

Jesus Christ

Peter the Apostle

Philip the Apostle]

[Christian Bible

Christianity

Roman History

Society and Culture]