Chronology

Proconsul of Achaia and brother of the philosopher Seneca; he threw Paul's accusers out of his court at Corinth as a matter for their own law. The Delphi inscription dates his…

Theophilus was the sixth bishop of Antioch in Syria, serving roughly from 169 to the early 180s. Antioch was the third city of the empire and the place where the disciples were…

Isidore was born about 560 in Cartagena, in southern Spain, into a family that had already been driven out of somewhere else. His parents died young. His older brother Leander…

Socrates was born at Constantinople about 380 and was still writing in 439. He was a layman — the byname Scholasticus most likely means he practised law — and he lived in the…

John was born in Damascus about 675, into a prominent Christian family that served the Muslim government. His father held a senior financial post under the Umayyad caliphs, and…

Ethelbert William Bullinger was born at Canterbury, England, on December 15, 1837, the youngest of five children. His family held that they were descended from Heinrich…