Millions of Years Condemned by the Church Fathers. Proof from Saint Augustine, Saint Theophilus

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Millions of Years Condemned by the Church Fathers

St Augustine of Hippo. Bishop and Doctor of the Church. City of God. Book XII, Ch. 12. c. 426. A.D.
"As to those who are always asking why man was not created during these countless ages of the infinitely extended past, and came into being so lately that, according to Scripture, less than 6000 years have elapsed since He began to be, ... If it offends them that the time that has elapsed since the creation of man is so short, and his years so few according to our authorities, let them take this into consideration, that nothing that has a limit is long, and that all the ages of time being finite, are very little …
Consequently, if there had elapsed since the creation of man, I do not say five or six, but even sixty or six hundred thousand years, or sixty times as many, [600,000 x 60 = 36 million ] or six hundred or six hundred thousand times as many, [600,000 x 600,000 = 360 billion] or this sum multiplied until it could no longer be expressed in numbers, the same question could still be put, Why was he not made before?"

St Augustine of Hippo. Bishop and Doctor of the Church. City of God. Book XII, Ch. 10. c. 426. A.D.
"They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed. … they would fain oppose the authority of our well-known and divine books, which predicted that the whole world would believe them, and which the whole world accordingly has believed; which proved, too, that it had truly narrated past events by its prediction of future events, which have so exactly come to pass!"

St Theophilus of Antioch. Bishop and Apologist. To Autolycus, Book III, Ch 26. c. 180.
"Hence one can see how our sacred writings are shown to be more ancient and true than those of the Greeks and Egyptians, or any other historians. … For my purpose is not to furnish mere matter of much talk, but to throw light upon the number of years from the foundation of the world, … being indeed created, it is also governed by the providence of God, who made all things; and the whole course of time and the years are made plain to those who wish to obey the truth. … and to condemn the empty labour and trifling of these authors, because there have neither been twenty thousand times ten thousand years (200 Million) from the flood to the present time, as Plato said, affirming that there had been so many years; "

St Theophilus of Antioch says that the date of Creation is 5,529 B.C.

Lactantius. Chirstian Apologist. Divine Institutes. Book VII, Ch. 14. c. 315. A.D.
"But we, whom the Holy Scriptures instruct to the knowledge of the truth, know the beginning and the end of the world, ... Therefore let the philosophers, who enumerate thousands of ages from the beginning of the world, know that the six thousandth year is not yet completed, ..."

Lactantius says that the date of Creation is sometime between 5475-5,685 B.C.
For Lactantius an “Age” is “1,000 years” so thousands of ages = Millions of years.

St Augustine of Hippo. Bishop and Doctor of the Church. City of God. Book XV, Ch. 27. c. A.D. 426.
Speaking of the histories of in Genesis.
"For what right-minded man will contend that books so religiously preserved during thousands of years, and transmitted by so orderly a succession, were written without an object, not even the most audacious will presume to assert that these things were written without a purpose, … or that they did not really happen, but are only allegory, … we must rather believe that there was a wise purpose in their being committed to memory and to writing, and that they did happen, ..."

Specific Date given.
St Justin Martyr says that the date of Creation is 5000 B.C.
St Isidore of Saville says that the date of Creation is 5,196 B.C.
Eusebius of Caesarea says that the date of Creation is 5,199 B.C.
St Jerome says that the date of Creation is 5,201 B.C.
St Gaudentius says that the date of Creation is 5,201 B.C.
Lactantius seems to say the most recent date of Creation, given by other Catholics is 5,475 B.C.
Panodorus of Alexandria says that the date of Creation is 5,493 B.C.
Silpicius Severus says that the date of Creation is 5,496 B.C.
Quintus Julius Hilarianus says that the date of Creation is 5,497 B.C.
St Hippolytus says that the date of creation is 5,500 B.C.
Julius Africanus says that the date of Creation is 5,500 B.C.
St Hilary of Poitiers says that the date of Creation is 5,500 B.C.
St Ephraim the Syrian says that the date of Creation is 5,500 B.C.
Origen of Alexandria says that the date of Creation is 5,500 B.C.
St Theophilus of Antioch say that the date of Creation is 5,529 B.C.
St Clement of Alexandria say that the date of Creation is 5,592 B.C.