Rome

A⁴nd it was not until this registration was completed and sealed, and until Herod had sealed it and sent it to Augustus in Rome, that the Messiah was searched for; up to that time no children had been slain. And it was during the commotion caused by that registration that Christ was born. When forty days after His birth had been fulfilled, Christ went into the Temple of the Lord. And Simeon the Aged, the son of Joshua bar-Yózadhak, in whose days the captivity went up from Babel, took Him in his arms. Now, Simeon was five hundred years old when he took Christ in his arms.

A¹nd Demateyos (Domitius), the Archbishop of Rom (i.e., Constantinople, Byzantium), said, " I have found in the Church of [Saint] Sophia among the books and the royal treasures a manuscript [which stated] that the whole kingdom of the world [belonged] to the Emperor of Rom and the Emperor of Ethiopia."

F¹rom the middle of Jerusalem, and from the north thereof to the south-east is the portion of the Emperor of Rom; and from the middle of Jerusalem from the north thereof to the south and to Western India is the portion of the Emperor of Ethiopia.

A¹⁵nd they destroyed His light and cast themselves upon Him and they set a guard over His tomb wherein they had cast Him. And He came forth where they did not look for Him, and illumined the whole world, more especially the First Sea and the Last Sea, Ethiopia and Rom.

A³nd it rose below the earth in a place where it was not expected, and it illumined the country of Rom, and the country of Ethiopia, and afterwards all those who believed on it." And Zadok the priest answered and said unto him, " O my lord, why didst thou not tell me before that thou hadst seen a vision of this kind?

T¹⁹o Rehoboam God gave only two stems (or, roots); and the King of Rome is the youngest son of Solomon. And God did this in order that foolish people might not call us Jews, because of Solomon and because of Rehoboam his son — now God knoweth the heart — and He did this that they might not imagine such a thing.

A¹nd we will begin to tell you what we have heard, and what we have found written, and what we have seen concerning the King of Rome. The kingdom of Rome was the portion and dominion of Japhet, the son of Noah. And sitting down they made twelve great cities, and Darius built the greatest cities of their kingdoms: 'Antokya (Antioch), Diresya (Tyre?), and Bartonya (Partriia?), and Ramya (Roma?), and those who reigned dwelt there; and King Constantine built Constantinople after his own name.

A⁴nd all the men of the city of Rome were well pleased, and they made 'Adrami king over them, and they rejoiced in him with a great joy; for it happened thus by their will and by the Will of God. And [then] a fever seized Baltasar, and thereupon he sent 'Adrami to the war, and into everything that he wished, whilst he himself remained in the city; and after this Baltasar died, and 'Adrami directed the kingdom.

A¹nd after they had waited for three months — now Zion came into the country of Ethiopia at the beginning of the first month in the language of the Hebrews, and in Greek Tarmon and in Ge'ez (Ethiopic) Miyazya, on the sixth (or, seventh) day — they wrote down the Law and the names, and they deposited [the writing] for a memorial for the later days, so that what was right should be done for the pavilion [of Zion] thereby, and so that the glory of the kings of Ethiopia and the glory of the kings of Rome might be well known.

A²nd after him the King of Rome was the anointed of the Lord because of the wood of the Cross. And as concerning the kingdom of Israel — when the Pearl was born of them, and of the Pearl again was born the Sun of Righteousness, Who hid Himself in her body — now had He not hidden Himself in the body of a man He could not have been seen by mortal eyes — and having put on our body He became like unto us, and He walked about with [men].

A²nd the Kings of Rome also have become great because of the nails [of the Cross] that Helena made into a bridle, which hath become the vanquisher of the enemy for the King of Rome. And the chariot belongeth to the King of Ethiopia, and it hath vanquished his enemy.

A¹nd the Archbishops answered and said unto Gregory, the Worker of Wonders, " Behold now, thou hast told us concerning the vanquisher of the enemy of Rome, and now [tell us] of the chariot of Ethiopia and whether it shall remain henceforward, to the Coming of Christ, as thou hast told us concerning Zion, and concerning the faith of the people of Ethiopia, and likewise if their chariot shall remain."

A¹nd the King of Rome, and the King of Ethiopia, and the Archbishop of Alexandria — now the men of Rome were orthodox — were informed that they were to destroy them. And they were to rise up to fight, to make war upon the enemies of God, the Jews, and to destroy them, the King of Rome 'nya, and the King of Ethiopia Pinhas (Phinehas); and they were to lay waste their lands, and to build churches there, and they were to cut to pieces Jews at the end of this Cycle in twelve cycles of the moon.