passed the seventh year, is now completing the ninth,1 in which we shall keep the feast.” 2 1 BESIDES all these the two books on the Promises3 were prepared by him. The occasion of these was Nepos, a bishop in Egypt, who taught that the promises to the holy men in the Divine Scriptures should be understood in a more Jewish manner, and that there would be a certain millennium of bodily luxury upon this earth. 2 As he thought that he could establish his private opinion
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