section_path: Accounts in Church Fathers
section_name: Accounts in Church Fathers
paragraph_text: Accounts in Church Fathers
  
  John Chrysostom says in his Homily " On the Cross and the Thief ", that Christ "opened for us today Paradise, which had remained closed for some 5000 years."
  
  Isaac the Syrian writes in a Homily that before Christ "for five thousand years five hundred and some years God left Adam (i.e. man) to labor on the earth."
  
  Augustine of Hippo writes in the City of God (written AD 413–426):
  
  Augustine goes on to say that the ancient Greek chronology "does not exceed the true account of the duration of the world as it is given in our documents (i.e. the Scriptures), which are truly sacred."
  
  Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170–235) maintained on Scriptural grounds that Jesus's birth took place in AM 5500, and held that the birth of Christ took place on a passover day, deducing that its month-date was 25 March (see Alexandrian Era). He gave the following intervals:
  
  In his Commentary on Daniel, one of his earlier writings, he proceeds to set out additional reasons for accepting the date of AM 5500:
  
  Around AD 202 Hippolytus held that Jesus was born in the 42nd year of the reign of Augustus and that he was born in AM 5500. In his Commentary on Daniel he did not need to establish the precise year of Jesus's birth; he is not concerned about the day of the week, the month-date, or even the year; it was sufficient for his purpose to show that Christ was born in the days of Augustus in AM 5500.