When the Mediterranean world began to take up this new religion and the events of Jesus’ life receded into the past, it was necessary not only to foresee Jesus in the Scriptures of the Jews but to place all the events of the Bible and the acts of early Christians in the context of the world. This was accomplished by Origen’s brilliant successor, Eusebius of Caesarea (A.D. c. 260–340), who sat at the right hand of Emperor Constantine and delivered the opening eulogy of the Emperor at the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325). For the first time his chronology arranged and encompassed the events of the
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