PHLEGON, QUOTED BY AFRICANUS
Phlegon, Chronicles, circa A.D. 140, no extant copies, quoted by others. By Africanus. Africanus says that Plegon referred to the same eclipse when “he records that in the time of Tiberius Caesar at full moon, there was a full eclipse of the sun from the sixth hour to the ninth.” By Origen in Against Celsus. “And with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Ceasar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the great earthqualkes which then took place, Phlegon too, I think has written in the thirteenth or fourteenth book of his Chronicles. (2.33) Now Phlegon, in the thirteenth of fourteenth book, I think of His Chronicles, not only ascribed to Jesus a knowledge of future things (although falling into confusion about some things which refer to Peter, as if they referred to Jesus), but also testified that the result corresponded to His predictions. So that he also, by these very admissions regarding foreknowledge,…
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