Origins of BC and AD (& Dionysius Exiguus)

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  • @777Justin
    @777Justin 10 місяців тому +101

    Secularists: “Haha it’s BCE/CE now”
    Christians: Sweet thanks. Before Christ’s Era and Christ’s Era.
    Secularists: Nooo!

    • @obey4056
      @obey4056 6 місяців тому

      Ahah good one brother 😂💯

  • @konstantinoiam1004
    @konstantinoiam1004 10 місяців тому +11

    I am grateful to God for such edifying videos that you all share with us. I believe much effort, dedication and labour go into them, yet at the same time, they are rightly simple and light. I shall even begin to show as clips for homeschooling, after discussion. Also love the endings. I don't favour this kind of tea either. But I look forward to know what it is you all are drinking.

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for watching and your kind words!

  • @GabrielaFlores-k2p
    @GabrielaFlores-k2p 3 місяці тому +2

    So well made! I'm humbled by the teaching of humbleness

  • @nathanjohnwade2289
    @nathanjohnwade2289 10 місяців тому +7

    The Coptic Church still uses their own calendar (for liturgical purposes) based on the ancient Egyptian calendar and the year count is from the start of the reign of Deocleatian and are given the abbreviation of AM (Anno Martyrum).

  • @hattorihanzo2275
    @hattorihanzo2275 10 місяців тому +4

    I purchased a mug last night. You can always use a good mug and I wanted to show appreciation for this channel. Spend the past few days watching the entire library.

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому +1

      Hope you enjoy the mug! Thank you so much for the support

  • @WilliamDusing
    @WilliamDusing 10 місяців тому +5

    Wonderful video! Praise God for Dionysius Exiguus!

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому +3

      Amen! A great saint

  • @junioralfa3628
    @junioralfa3628 9 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for the explanation. Wow!

  • @FatherAndTeacherTV
    @FatherAndTeacherTV 10 місяців тому +4

    Thank you for the history and information.

  • @joshua_wherley
    @joshua_wherley 8 днів тому

    "We do not make saints - God makes saints" 6:40
    This is a concise way to describe who the saints are in Orthodoxy. God sanctifies the individual, we just recognize them for their holiness which is gained through humility and the grace of God.

  • @allisonroorda7937
    @allisonroorda7937 10 місяців тому +4

    Thank you for another wonderful video! And also for your honest tea review. ;)

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому

      Ha ha yes, we didn't really enjoy that one.

  • @jacobfort1266
    @jacobfort1266 10 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for another great video!!

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching!

  • @bobdinkytown
    @bobdinkytown 10 місяців тому +7

    I always wondered why there wasn't a year 0. Now I know

    • @onceamusician5408
      @onceamusician5408 10 місяців тому

      raise one finger. how many finger are there raised? one? or zero?
      the age of a person is the number of full years completed. so a one year old has lived one full year. BUT if we were to number the first year of his life, before he completed it, thus before he turned one it would be the first year of his life , ie year ONE
      counting the first in any series as zero was always logically absurd., it only started with computers where the 0 of 0-9 was given more meaning than is valid

    • @bobdinkytown
      @bobdinkytown 10 місяців тому +3

      @@onceamusician5408 I already said "now I know." And Patristix's explanation was far better

  • @Noone-rt6pw
    @Noone-rt6pw 8 місяців тому

    I really appreciate your mini shows. They're good to get a quick understanding. But it'd be good if we could have longer details that's longer for bedtime, where we can think.😊

  • @benjamind.gordon
    @benjamind.gordon 8 місяців тому

    Thanks for the clear & concise explanation, also the tea / fruit commentary at the conclusion. Watching from Northern Europe.🧊🧊🧊📦📦📦

  • @ScottSteubing
    @ScottSteubing 10 місяців тому +2

    This was interesting. I knew what A.D. stood for, but I had never heard of Dionysius Exiguus before.

  • @JamesMasterPlaster
    @JamesMasterPlaster 10 місяців тому +3

    Very very cool ☦️

  • @blackgrizzly4987
    @blackgrizzly4987 7 місяців тому

    As strange as it may sound to many. I am sure Dionysius Exiguus is absolutely correct in calculating the incarnation of Lord God Messiah.
    He was dilligent, very intelligent, highly educated and so much closer to the events than our modern day scholars.
    He probably had sources available to him that are obscure and unknown to us and/or probably destroyed by now.

  • @fracturedchristian
    @fracturedchristian 10 місяців тому

    Really loved this video ❤

  • @makuballz6516
    @makuballz6516 4 місяці тому

    nice video

  • @realmadrid97666
    @realmadrid97666 10 місяців тому +2

    I HATE modern calendar usage 😡😡😡😡 another great vid mate!😢

    • @kaybrown4010
      @kaybrown4010 10 місяців тому +8

      Now, when I come across C.E., I’ll think “Christ on Earth”. It feels a little better. 😊

    • @steerpiked7540
      @steerpiked7540 9 місяців тому

      @@kaybrown4010 I like to think of it as BCE Before Christian Era, CE Christian Era!!!

  • @sifu9683
    @sifu9683 10 місяців тому +1

    Denis the short was only four years off! Not bad!!

  • @kev-la-kill9673
    @kev-la-kill9673 4 місяці тому +1

    Even when I was an atheist I thought it was ridiculous pandering to use CE & BCE. Now, as an Orthodox, I see it as blatantly insulting.

  • @autopistis
    @autopistis 3 місяці тому

    Who is the genius who made "Patristix?!"😊

  • @LightOfAllMankind
    @LightOfAllMankind 10 місяців тому +2

    Just found your channel recently. What accent is that?

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому +3

      A mix of several places we've lived! Lately it's been sounding increasingly Australian though

    • @LightOfAllMankind
      @LightOfAllMankind 10 місяців тому +4

      ⁠@@PatristixI was just going to say…you sound English until the suffixes, and long e sounds. Very interesting.
      My Romanian co-worker who’s from Constanta loved this video and he’s hardly ever excited about things. 😅

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  10 місяців тому +6

      This saint is a pretty huge contribution to world history! All Romanians should be proud

  • @TheRadChadDad
    @TheRadChadDad 10 місяців тому +3

    ☦️☦️☦️

  • @arkrou
    @arkrou 10 місяців тому +3

    Dionysius Exiguus was Daco-Roman (proto romanian)

  • @JustABowlOfCherries
    @JustABowlOfCherries 10 місяців тому +2

    I find it easier to use BC and AD.

  • @nikolaoschatzivassiliou
    @nikolaoschatzivassiliou 10 місяців тому +1

    Always thought it ment "after death“

  • @Tony_Lewis
    @Tony_Lewis 9 місяців тому

    I get confused with the "Before the Present" B.P. System which starts in A.D 1950, according to Archaeologists.
    So 3000 B.P. is 1050 B.C.
    I'm confused. I need a lager and an aspirin.
    Grace and Peace upon you both. ☦️

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  9 місяців тому

      That... sounds very confusing. Hadn't heard of that but it sounds like an awful idea 😆

  • @forestantemesaris8447
    @forestantemesaris8447 10 місяців тому

    How did Dionysius calculate when the incarnation was?

  • @rylands4289
    @rylands4289 Місяць тому

    Why is BC in english when english only became the lingua franca around the british colonization? A thousand years before Exiguus who spoke Latin

    • @Patristix
      @Patristix  Місяць тому

      BC was popularised by Isaac Newton in the early 1700s. Before him, the wording was ACN which meant "ante Christe natum" or "before Christ's birth"

  • @daimionkaizafox
    @daimionkaizafox 7 місяців тому

    Actually the one tht started AD for Jesus was someone else. His name was Dionysius Exiguus a Romanian Saint in the Orthodox and Catholic church when the church used to still be one. Lived in AD 475-544. As for BC, The Venerable Bede came up with tht part of the dating system.
    Origins of BC and AD (& Dionysius Exiguus) - Patristix
    ua-cam.com/video/rRJ3G_JQrdI/v-deo.htmlsi=6XlYXTJv1wnBk960

  • @onceamusician5408
    @onceamusician5408 10 місяців тому

    "Dennis:" is the proper translation of the name Dionysius
    and i was always lead to believe that his name meant Dennis the short,
    but this i read somewhere and i cannot vouch for it
    HOWEVER I have one question:
    was he wrong to put the death of Herod at 4 BC? After all he ordered the massacre of the innocents after Jesus was born in an attempt to kill Him
    or have we misunderstood his system
    do co regencies between Herod and any of his son's or successors skew the date

    • @voxlknight2155
      @voxlknight2155 10 місяців тому +1

      I believe that is because the actual dating of the system is 4-5 years ahead of where it should be. That is to say that the saint was off by that many years in his estimate of when the incarnation happened. Which, to me, is amazing, that he got it so close when probably very few people around were keeping track, and he would, most likely, have to make an educated guess, and he was only off by a few years.
      Herod the Great, I believe, died the same year, or one year after, our Lord Jesus Christ was born. I can't exactly remember, I'm still new to reading the Bible and haven't memorized much of it yet haha

  • @b_ks
    @b_ks 10 місяців тому +1

    There is also no year zero because zero literally means nothing and a year is decidedly something. 😁

  • @jackkirby1274
    @jackkirby1274 4 місяці тому

    Why hasn’t the Catholic Church canonized him?

  • @PeterRogersMD
    @PeterRogersMD 6 місяців тому

    Hi Mr Patristix. I enjoy your videos. You might like my new book Best Christian Art; subtitle Aesthetic Christianity. It's nondenominational. I meant to say it's Christian art in general, and not just Catholic art. I'm going to make yt videos about all the chapters. About 1 per day. I'm a neuroradiologist who occasionally writes about art and literature. I mostly make videos about nutrition and health at my yt channel Peter Rogers MD.

  • @cyurisich
    @cyurisich 5 місяців тому

    There is actually a very funny louis ck skit about the calendar. "Death to the infidels! In the year of our lord 2014"

  • @ike991963
    @ike991963 10 місяців тому +1

    Of course, most admit that Jesus' birth was probably a little earlier, about 3 BC.

    • @gabiacobescu
      @gabiacobescu 4 місяці тому +1

      In fact 4 BC. This is because Herod the Great is thought to have died in 4 BC and he ordered the Massacre of the Innocents (Matthew 2:16-18)

  • @cyurisich
    @cyurisich 5 місяців тому

    Can i comment on christians being annoyed? Because thats mad annoying

  • @gofiodetrigo8756
    @gofiodetrigo8756 3 місяці тому

    a genius or a nerd :? :/