Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Solar eclipse and earthquake during the crucifixion of Christ

According to the Gospels, as the birth and death of Jesus on the cross accompanied by extraordinary natural phenomena.



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"The sixth hour darkness came over the whole land
 until the ninth hour",
read in the evangelists of the heavenly signs at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus and this message repeat them to word for word, of course, goes back to one common source. Matfaye adds,
" The darkness was accompanied by an earthquake 
                     and the earth did quake; 
                     and the rocks were split" .
Since attempts to find echoes of such Newby- the tea incident in the annals of that era. Even the early Christian the apologist Tertullian , addressing the Romans, wrote: "RAS fifth, He showed many signs of... At the same time there was a significant lo Eclipse of the sun during the day. This Eclipse is considered ordinary to the ones who didn't know what was foretold about Christ. Notification of this
Eclipse as a world disaster, in the archives" (Apologetic,XXI 19). Perhaps, in this case we are talking about Acts of Pilate, or about one of the false "letters of Pilate" to the Emperor Tiberius (or Claudius) then appeared in different variations.
Starting with Julius Africanus , Origen and Eusebius of CES-enters the country from Christian apologists betrayed exceptional value the Greek historian of Phlegon who mentioned about the Eclipse, the sun and the strongest earthquake of CA. 32-33 ad. On he messages of the Patriarch of Constantinople Photius, the Byzantine lexicon Suda (UD), a Freedman of the Emperor Hadrian (117-138 ad) and left several works, including historical chronicle ("Excerpts from the Olympics"), cher-
fell information Julius Africanus and Origen. This chronicle has not survived and is known only in short fragments, quoted by later. Characteristically, the place where Phlegon tells about the Eclipse of the sun, and ZEM- tetracene in Bithynia, is only in Christian writers; however, the same applies almost to the whole essay. Despite this, the message of Fregona what we see in the transfer
Eusebius and Jerome, it seems genuine. The fact that the epicenter of the earthquake called the Asia minor area, quite remote from Palestine,speaks in favor of non-Christian origin of this message. If
we were dealing with preevangelism fiction, then this quote would have a number of specific features inherent in the Christian apocriticus-hell the literature (a notable dependence on the Gospels, the gospel of phraseology, etc.), and probably would have marked the epicenter of the earthquake Jerusalem. It does not cause special objections and Dating, allowing to include a solar Eclipse and an earthquake to 32-33 ad. Somewhat puzzling reference to Phlegon of Origen. According to him,
Flagon "attributed to Christ in the anticipation of an unknown future" (Against Celsus, II, 14).
Are we to understand it so that Phlegon wrote of Christ? Judging by the meaning of the text, no. However, in this place of orientation the gene is expressed in a very vague and mysterious way. In two other passages he is more intelligible and undoubtedly has in mind the message of Flagon that
quoting other Christian authors. Although here we see Origen only a cursory reference to a solar Eclipse and the great earthquake what happened during the crucifixion of Jesus, without specifying the scene and other details. Apparently, Origen used the same data as his colleagues, and still remark it, as if Flagon attributed, predicting the Barcelona of the future, Jesus Christ or the Apostle Peter, should be attributed to account of the arbitrary interpretation of the message of Flagon or revelation made by Origen in the heat of debate. Suppose a historian of the first half of the II century Publius Aelius Phlegon  about the solar Eclipse and earthquake in Bithynia around the same year in which in Jerusalem was executed Jesus Chris. But something in the message Flagon as his lead Christians authors is still suspicious. For example, the sixth-the hour of the solar Eclipse, reminiscent of the corresponding seminariya Evangelcal message. Maybe Phlegon knew the gospel? He was born
in Asia Minor, in Trellech, where the end of the first century there was a Christian community
with your Bishop. The possibility that Flagon enjoyed Christian traditions, cannot be ruled out, although it is unlikely. This court historian wholly followed the religious policy of imperator Adrian, who treated the Christians contemptuously hostile (see section III, document 4B). Characterized by the remark of Origen, that Flagon testifying for Christ against his will. The less, we have Flegon had no reason to reproduce the details of the gospel history-RII, even if he knew it.

References
A passage from the writings of Origen is given in the translation by L. Pisarev (1912). Fragments of the works of Phlegon in the transmission of Eusebius of Caesarea St, Jerome and John Philopon transferred by publication:
Easter Die Fragmente der Historiker (FGrH) / Ed. F. Jacobi. Bd. II,
"B". Berlin, 1929. N 257; 4, 16a, 16C. Excerpts from the Paschal chronicle and
"Chronicle of John Malala translated at Patrology by J. Ming
(PG 92, 536; 97, 369). Excerpt from the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian re-
led by publication: Michel le Syrien. Chronique / Ed. et trad. en franç. par
J. B. Chabot. Vol. I. Paris, 1899. P. 143-144.

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