L. VIVES.
IN the (a) two] First, sure it is, Christ suffered vnder Tyberius the Emperor. Luke the Euange∣list * 1.1 maketh his baptisme to fall in the fifteenth yeare of Tyberius his reigne. So then his pas∣sion must be in the eighteenth or ninteenth, for three yeares hee preached saluation. Hier. So •…•…ith Eusebius, alledging heathen testimonies of that memorable eclips of the Sunne, as name∣ly our of Phlegon, a writer of the Olympiads: who saith that in the fourth yeare of the two hundered and two Olympiade (the eighteenth of Tyberius his reigne) the greatest eclips be∣fell, that euer was. It was midnight-darke at noone-day, the starres were all visible, and an earth-quake shooke downe many houses in Nice a city of Bythinia. But the two Gemini, Ru∣•…•…, and Fusius, were Consulls in the fifteenth yeare of Tyberius, as is easily prooued out of Tacitus lib. 5. and out of Lactantius lib. 4. cap. 10. where hee saith that in that yeare did Christ suffer, and him doth Augustine follow here. But Sergius Galba (afterwards Emperor) and L. Sylla were Consulls in the eighteenth yeare. (b) Honorius and▪ In the consulship of these two, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 draue the Gothes and Vandals into Italy. Honorius the Emperor beeing Consull the fourth time. Prosper saith this was not vntill the next yeare, Stilicon and Aurelian beeing 〈◊〉〈◊〉. (c) Theodorus] Claudian made an exellent Panegyrike, for his consulship, wherein hee sheweth that hee had beene Consul before. Prosper maketh him Consull before Honorius his fourth Consulship, but I thinke this is an error in the time, as well as in the copie. For it must bee read, Beeing the second time Consul. Eutropius the Eunuch was made Consull with him, but soone after hee was put to death. Wherevpon it may bee that Eutropius his name was blotted out of the registers, and Theodorus Manlius (hauing no fellow) was taken for two, Theodorus and Manlius, as Cassiodorus taketh him, but mistakes himselfe. Yet about that time, they began to haue but one Consull. (d) Now 30. yeares] Vnto the third yeare of Theodosius Iunior, where∣in Augustine wrote this. (e) In him that Peter] For who is Paul, and who is Apollo? the mini∣sters by whom you beleeue.