The Vulgate

A Bible

to be trusted.  Jerome didn’t just translate the Bible.  He had to find reliable manuscripts.  Augustine warned him that another translation would just add to the confusion that already existed.  Chrysostom may have determined the final version of the Apocalypse.  Before this there was little agreement as to whether it belonged in the Bible. 
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Jerome Augustine Chrysostom

A First Resurrection 

for those who reigned with Christ.  Fathers of the Church who kept the faith during troubled times.  Jerome gave us the Bible.  Augustine taught there was no reason without faith.  Chrysostom gave his life trying to correct corruption within the Church.  They were major figures at the beginning of the fifth century.  What can they teach us?    
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an astronomer and

A Date 

link Chrysostom to the Apocalypse.  The astronomer is Morozow.  The date is 395.  Gibbon taught me not to trust dates.  Baur taught me that it was January 401 when Chrysostom arrived in  Ephesus to replace seven bishops.  It would take three months.  Charles taught me about Morozow.  I had already suspected Chrysostom.  He was the only notable John around when five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come.  They being the seven dynasties of the Roman Empire.   
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