Chains

Judah's longest-reigning and worst king, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; the book names his apostasy as the cause of 586 BC — and Chronicles records his late…

Procopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…

Ignatius was bishop of Antioch in Syria — the city where believers were first called Christians. He called himself Theophorus, "God-bearer." He was condemned to die in the…

Theodore was bishop of Heraclea in Thrace — the old Perinthus, on the north shore of the Sea of Marmara, on the road west out of Constantinople. He was appointed sometime…

Eusebius was born at Edessa around the year 300, into a noble family of that Syriac-speaking city. He was taught the Scriptures in Syriac as a boy — which set him apart from…

Hesychius was a priest and monk of Jerusalem in the first half of the fifth century. Cyril of Scythopolis, writing a century later, describes him as a great teacher of the…