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5865 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
13 Deinde anno eiusdem septimo decimo cum Dominus Iesus Christus uoluntarie quidem se tradidit passioni, sed impie a Iudaeis apprehensus et patibulo suffixus est, maximo terrae motu per orbem facto saxa in montibus scissa, maximarumque urbium plurimae partes plus solita concussione ceciderunt. 14 Eadem quoque die ad horam diei sextam sol in totum obscuratus tetraque nox subito obducta terris est et, sicut dictum est,
Impiaque aeternam timuerunt saecula noctem.
15 Vsque adeo autem neque lunam lumini solis neque nubes obstitisse manifestum est, ut quartam decimam ea die lunam, tota caeli regione interiecta, longissime a conspectu solis afuisse et stellas tunc diurnis horis uel potius in illa horrenda nocte toto caelo fulsisse referatur. quod non solum sanctorum Euangeliorum fides, sed etiam aliquanti Graecorum libri adtestantur. 16 Iam hinc post passionem Domini, quem Iudaei quantum in ipsis fuit persecuti sunt, continuae clades Iudaeorum, donec exinaniti dispersique deficiant, incessabiliter strepunt. |
| Translation |
13. It was in the 17th year of the same emperor’s reign, when the
Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily gave Himself up to suffer, though it was the
Jews who blasphemously arrested and fixed Him to the cross. Rocks in
the mountains were torn apart by the greatest earthquake the world has
known, with great parts of the biggest cities being laid low by its hitherto
unknown violence. 14. On the same day at the sixth hour, the sun’s light
was completely effaced, a hellish darkness suddenly fell over the earth,50
and, as the saying goes, impious mortals fear’d eternal night. 15. The
darkness was so great that it was clear that neither the moon nor the clouds
had cut off the sun’s light, for it is said that on that day the moon was in its
14th station at the opposite side of the heavens and as far as it could be from
the sun, and that stars shone over all the heavens during the hours of the day,
or rather of that terrible night. This is testified to not only by the faith of the
Holy Evangelists, but also by a number of Greek books.
16. Now from the time after the passion of the Lord which the Jews
prosecuted with all their might, ceaseless disasters roared around them
until finally, emptied of all strength and scattered, they passed away. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 7, Cap. 4, 13-16 (Vol. III, p. 25, trans. Fear, p. 327) |
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33 - 37 |
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