Chapter 112
1 But since a thought has come into my heart, we shall not leave it unexpounded, for it is able to profit the soul.
2 For since in the forty-second year, under Augustus Caesar, the Lord was born, from which time the kingdom of the Romans came to its height—and through the apostles the Lord called all the nations and all the tongues, and made a nation of believing Christians who bear the Lord’s new name in their heart—in the same manner the kingdom that now is imitated it in turn, which holds power by the working of Satan; for it likewise, gathering from all the nations the most valiant, equips them for war, calling them Romans.
3 And for this reason the first census also took place under Augustus, when the Lord was born in Bethlehem, so that the men of this world, enrolled to an earthly king, might be called Romans, while those who believe in the heavenly King might be named Christians, bearing on their forehead the trophy over death.