I recently borrowed a copy of Hippolytus’ “Books of Chronology.” As far as I am aware, this has never been translated into a modern language, so I hope to do so. Its fairly simple Greek and Latin, so as long as I can navigate the German notes and introduction I should be alright. In it Hippolytus uses the Septuagint to prove the age of the world so that he can get people to stop looking for the return of Christ, which, according to Hippolytus, was not to happen until the world was 6,000 years old. He believed that the end was still a couple hundred years off.
Ancient Christians commonly believed that the world would last 6,000 years. I’ll try and gather some quotations from the fathers about this later.
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