Hilarianus: 101 years remain to complete six thousand (new translation)

For from his consulship, looking up the yearly consuls, we find that up to the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is, up to the sixteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, 179 years were completed; and so from the making of the world up to the Passion of Christ our Saviour there are 5,530 years. Accordingly, 470 years are still owed to complete six thousand years. For it must be that, just as the children of Israel received the land of promise 470 years after the promise the Lord God made to Abraham, so we Christians too shall have the first resurrection after the same number of years. For the Jewish people bears our figure in all things: “upon whom the ends of the ages have come together” (1 Corinthians 10:15). Therefore 470 years must be completed from the Passion of the Lord Christ (from which time the Son of God promised resurrection to those who believe in him), so that the total of six thousand years may be concluded. When the seven-thousandth year begins, those who believe with true faith will be set free from the world; for then will be the first resurrection of all the saints. XVII. Of the four hundred and seventy years from the Lord’s Passion, by the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus, on the ninth day before the Kalends of April, 369 years have passed. There remain therefore 101 years until the 6,000 years are completed; and these 6,000 years will not be completed unless, near the very end, ten kings have first gone out into the world and have removed from the midst of the world the daughter of Babylon who now holds sway. Against them there will suddenly come out one mighty over them, who in the Apocalypse is named the Dragon, and he will take hold of the ten kings; some of them he will destroy, others will remain under his rule. “Then shall that wicked one be revealed, the son of perdition, who is exalted against all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that sitting in the temple of God he shows himself as though he were God” (2 Thessalonians 2:3–4).