Ante-Nicene 'fathers' 7,000 year old earth, based on 7 days of Genesis & Psa. 90:4; 2 Pet. 3:8

The 7 days of Genesis & 7,000 years old earth view (Ps. 90:4, II Pet. 3:8)), have you heard this, even in the Ante-Nicene 'fathers'?

For instance (summary):

In Matthew 13, Jesus gives several related parables, about the work of a laborer, sowing in the field and then reaping. According to Holy scripture, the workweek is six days long, with one of rest at the end (Exodus 20:8-11; &c). Therein, the ‘field’ is identified with the “world”, and the sowing of the gospel seed for those six days. The harvest is the end, but notice in St. Matthew 13:35, that Jesus speaks about the parable representing something keep secret from the beginning of the world. Isn’t Jesus connecting the sowing of the seed, from Genesis 3:15, unto the end of the world, the 6 cosmic days with the Lord, Psalms 90:4; II Peter 3:8?

For instance,

Day 1 - Light, (Adam sinned, world in darkness, but Jesus gave the Gospel light) connect to Genesis 3:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4-6; 1,000 years (of Adam, dies short of ‘the day’ (930 years old; Genesis 2:17, 5:5))

Day 2 - Heavenly waters separated from earthly waters, as Noah and Abraham continue with the gospel (Galatians 3:6-8), as Abraham was to be made a distinct heavenly minded peoples (Genesis 15:18, 18:18, waters, Revelation 17:5), 2nd 1,000 years

Day 3 - Grass, Herbs, Trees (with seed in itself), Moses and Israel take up the Gospel, the Tree of a nation is rooted (Hebrews 4:2,6; Acts 7:38], and among the grass (Psalms 103:15; Isaiah 51:12; 1 Peter 1:24), that Nation of the line of Abraham, was brought forth from out of Egypt (a symbol of the earth [worldliness]), and Israel, was to be a fruit bearing Tree (Luke 13:6-7; John 1:48-50; Romans 11:17,24), whose seed (the Gospel and Christ; Genesis 3:15) was in itself. 3rd 1,000 years.

Day 4 - Sun, Moon, Stars - The Sun of Righteousness, Jesus Christ appears, shining among the apostles, disciples, and Church reflecting His glory (Malachi 4:2; John 1:7-9, 8:12; Revelation 1:16), 4th 1,000 years

Day 5 - Beasts from the Waters, life abundantly appears, Leviathan of the seas - The gospel goes forward into all the nations ( Matthew 28:19; Mark 13:10, 16:15; Acts 1:8; Colossians 1:23,27), the Beast of the sea (Revelation 13:1-2) arises. 5th 1,000 years.

Day 6 - Beast of the Earth, perfect man, and the marriage take place - The gospel completes its mission (Revelation 10:7) in the 6th day, as God and Jesus were “finished” in the 6th day, the beast of the earth (Revelation 13:11~) arises, 6th 1,000 years unto today. Man restored to perfection through the Gospel (Revelation 14:6-12). Jesus is marrying in Heaven right now to His kingdom (Daniel 7:13-14; Isaiah 62:4-5)

Day 7 - God rested from all His work - the Final 1,000, God’s people in atonement with God, at rest from this earth, and the land rests.

In Isaiah, read, Isaiah 46:9-10. God told us the end from the beginning, just as He said in Matthew 13:35.

Have you seen this in the historical teachings of the Ante-Nicene?

Apostolic Constitutions (pages 317-318 (PDF 337-338)) - http://www.documentacatholicaomnia....ers_Of_The_Third_And_Fourth_Centuries,_EN.pdf

Hippolytus (p 179) - https://books.google.com/books?id=6-1YAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Methodius (p 93, 100, 182) - https://books.google.com/books?id=tslFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Epistle of Barnabas (p 146) - https://books.google.com/books?id=fyUMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Irenaeus (p 557-558) - https://books.google.com/books?id=fyUMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cyprian (p 52,69) - https://books.google.com/books?id=EcA7AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Commodianus (p 451,474) - https://books.google.com/books?id=xN8IAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Victorinus (p 342-343) - https://books.google.com/books?id=h3PYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Hilary of Poitiers (p 186) - https://books.google.com/books?id=2398ZZ9dIQoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lactantius (p 460-461) - https://books.google.com/books?id=GIJPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Gaudentius of Brescia (p 202-203) - https://books.google.com/books?id=-pYCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false and in Latin ( pages 96,97, paragraphs 14-16, lines 137-140, 148-154) - https://books.google.com/books?id=13AOAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jerome (p 153) - https://books.google.com/books?id=89frds8lRqkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false and (p 202) - https://books.google.com/books?id=-pYCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false and in Latin (Patrologia Latina 22; column 1172 (PDF 648)) - https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaecurs165unkngoog#page/n648/mode/1up/

Tyconius (p 56; lines 13-14 & p 61; lines 30-33) - https://archive.org/stream/bookofrulesoftyc00ticouoft#page/n183/mode/1up and https://archive.org/stream/bookofrulesoftyc00ticouoft#page/n188/mode/1up

Sulpitius Severus (p 71) - https://books.google.com/books?id=LjafWkK9O3QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Sextus Julius Africanus (p 130-131, 136-138) - https://books.google.co.zw/books?id=F-5YAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Bardesanes (Columnn 614 (lefthand side)) - https://books.google.com/books?id=49hjztGu5UwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Babylonian Talmud ('6000')- http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/607585/jewish/Significance-of-the-year-6000.htm

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 97A - https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.97a

Midrash (Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer) - https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/3930

Augustine (p 426) - https://books.google.com/books?id=tzwwAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false and in Latin ( PDF, 449.450) - https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n449/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n450/mode/1up and (p 232) - https://books.google.com/books?id=tzwwAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false and in Latin (PDF 247) - https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n247/mode/1up and (p 233) - https://books.google.com/books?id=tzwwAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false and in Latin (PDF 248) - https://archive.org/stream/OEXV6RES/OEXV6#page/n248/mode/1up/

Thomas Aquinas (Question 74, Article 3, Reply to Objection 6 and 7 & Summa Theologica, Suppliment, Question 74]) - www.newadvent.org/summa/1074.htm and (Question 122) - www.newadvent.org/summa/3122.htm

Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325) said:

"... [page 460] Plato and many others of the philosophers, since they were ignorant of the origin of all things, and of that primal period at which the world was made, said that many thousands of ages had passed since this beautiful arrangement of the world was completed; and in this they perhaps followed the Chaldeans [Babylonians], who, as Cicero has related in his first book respecting divination, [1] foolishly say [2] that they possess comprised in their memorials 470,000 years; in which matter, because they thought that they could not be convicted, they believed that they were at liberty [3] to speak falsely. But we, whom the holy Scriptures instruct to the knowledge of the truth, know the beginning and the end of the world, respecting which we will now speak in the end of our work, since we have explained respecting the beginning in the second book. 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, [page 460-461] and that when this number is completed the consumation must take place, and the condition of human affairs be remodelled for the better, the proof of which must first be related, that the matter itself may be plain. God completed the world and this admirable work of nature in the space of six days (as is contained in the secrets of holy Scripture), and consecrated the seventh day, on which He had rested for His works. But this is the Sabbath-day, which in the language of the Hebrews received its name from the number, [1] whence the seventh is the legitimate and complete number. For there are seven days, by the revolutions of which in order the circles of years are made up; and there are seven stars which do not set, and seven luminaries which are called planets, [2] whose differing and unequal movements are believed to cause the varieties of circumstances and times.

Therefore, since all the works of God were completed in six days, the world must continue in its present state through six ages, that is, six thousand years. For the great day of God is limited by a circle of a thousand years, as the prophet shows, who says, [3] "In Thy sight, O Lord, a thousand years are as one day." And as God laboured during those six days in creating such great works, so His religion and truth must labour during these six thousand years, while wickedness prevails and bears rule. And again, since God, having finished His works, rested the seventh day and blessed it, at the end of the six thousandth year all wickedness must be abolished from the earth, and righteousness reign for a thousand years; and there must be tranquility and rest from the labours which the world now has long endured. We have often said that lesser things and things of small importance are figures and previous shadowings forth of gret things; as this day of ours, which is bounded by the rising and the setting of the sun, is a representation [4] of that great day to which the circuit of a thousand years affixes it limits. [5] [page 461] ..." - Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325.; Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Volume XXI., The Works of Lactantius., Volume I. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street., MDCCCLXXI. (1871); Printed by Murray and Gibb, For T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh.; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson and Co.; New York: C. Scribner and Co. - Lactantius; Chap. XIV. - Of the first and last times of the world.; pages 460-461. - https://books.google.com/books?id=GIJPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Chinchilla said:

Earth is about 5500-5990 years old

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Here's a pretty neat timeline - http://timeline.biblehistory.com/home

'Apostolic Constitutions' (c. 375 to c. 380 AD.):

"... 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, and that when this number is completed the consummation must take place, and the condition of human affairs be remodelled for the better, the proof of which must first be related, that the matter itself may be plain. God completed the world and this admirable work of nature in the space of six days, as is contained in the secrets of Holy Scripture, and consecrated the seventh day, on which He had rested from His works. But this is the Sabbath-day, which in the language of the Hebrews received its name from the number, [1385] whence the seventh is the legitimate and complete number. For there are seven days, by the revolutions of which in order the circles of years are made up; and there are seven stars which do not set, and seven luminaries which are called planets, [1386] whose differing and unequal movements are believed to cause the varieties of circumstances and times. [1387]

Therefore, since all the works of God were completed in six days, the world must continue in its present state through six ages, that is, six thousand years. For the great day of God is limited by a circle of a thousand years, as the prophet shows, who says [1388] “In Thy sight, O Lord, a thousand years are as one day.” And as God laboured during those six days in creating such great works, so His religion and truth must labour during these six thousand years, while wickedness prevails and bears rule. And again, since God, having finished His works, rested the seventh day and blessed it, at the end of the six thousandth year all wickedness must be abolished from the earth, and righteousness reign for a thousand years; and there must be tranquillity and rest from the labours which the world now has long endured. But how that will come to pass I will explain in its order. We have often said that lesser things and things of small importance are figures and previous shadowings forth of great things; as this day of ours, which is bounded by the rising and the setting of the sun, is a representation [1389] [1389. Ps. xc. 4; see also 2 Pet. iii. 8.] of that great day to which the circuit of a thousand years affixes its limits. [1390] ..." - Apostolic Constitutions, Book VII (7), Chapter XIV (14) - Of the First and Last Times of the World, by Philip Schaff; ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies; pages 317-318 (PDF 337-338) - http://www.documentacatholicaomnia....ers_Of_The_Third_And_Fourth_Centuries,_EN.pdf

Chinchilla said:

It depends on which translation you use , according to LXX or Dead Sea Scrolls we are in about 5500 according to KJV and Masoretic we are around 5990

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LXX (which one?) is actually originated with Origen's Hexapla.

Hippolytus (170 – 235 AD) wrote:

"... And 6000 years must needs be accomplished in order that the Sabbath may come, the rest, the holy day on which God rested from all his works. For the Sabbath is the type and emblem of the future kingdom of the saints, when they shall reign with Christ, when he comes from Heaven, as John says in his Apocalypse: for a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. Since, then, in six days God made all things, it follows that six thousand years must be fulfilled. And they are not yet fulfilled ..." - Commentaries on various Books of Scripture. Sect. 4, on Daniel.; The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Translations of The Writings of the Father down to A.D. 325. The Rev. Alexander Robert, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Editors, American Reprint of the Edinburgh Edition. Revised and Chronologically arranged, with Brief prefaces and Occasional Notes, by A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D., Volume V (5). Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix. Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1903., page 179 - https://books.google.com/books?id=6-1YAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Chinchilla said:

Branton , it has about 500-600 years missing or added in these genealogies of children after flood.

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I understand, but it's still based in Origen.

Methodius (died c. 311):

"... This 'father' wrote about A. D. 308, and suffered martyrdom in A. D. 312. A considerable portion of his writings have come down to our time, but in them all I find not one mention of the first day of the week. He held to the perpetuity of the ten commandments, for he says of the beast with ten horns:- {1873 JNA, TFTC 105.2}

"Moreover, the ten horns and stings which he is said to have upon his heads are the ten opposites, O virgins, to the decalogue, by which he was accustomed to gore and cast down the souls of many, imagining and contriving things in opposition to the law, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,' and to the other precepts which follow." - Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse viii. chap. xiii. {1873 JNA, TFTC 105.3}

In commenting on the feast of tabernacles (Lev.23:39-42) he says:- {1873 JNA, TFTC 105.4}
"These things being like air and phantom shadows, foretell the resurrection and the putting up of our tabernacle that had fallen upon the earth, which at length, in the seventh thousand of years, resuming again immortal, we shall celebrate the great feast of true tabernacles in the new and indissoluble creation, the fruits of the earth having been gathered in, and men no longer begetting and begotten, but God resting from the works of creation." Discourse ix. chap.1. {1873 JNA, TFTC 105.5}

Methodius understood the six days of creation, [106] and the seventh day sanctified by the Creator, to teach that at the end of 6000 years the great day of joy shall come to the saints of God:- {1873 JNA, TFTC 105.6}

"For since in six days God made the heaven and the earth, and finished the whole world, and rested on the seventh day from all his works which he had made, and blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, so by a figure in the seventh month, when the fruits of the earth have been gathered in, we are commanded to keep the feast to the Lord, which signifies that, when this world shall be terminated at the seventh thousand years, when God shall have completed the world, he shall rejoice in us." Discourse ix. chap. i. sect. 4. {1873 JNA, TFTC 106.1}

In the fifth chapter of this discourse he speaks of the day of Judgment as "the millennium of rest, which is called the seventh day, even the true Sabbath." He believed that each day of the first seven represented one thousand years, and so the true Sabbath of the Lord sets forth the final triumph of the saints in the seventh period of a thousand years. And in his work "On Things Created," section 9, he refers to this representation of one day as a thousand years, and quotes in proof of it Ps.90:2,4. Then he says:- {1873 JNA, TFTC 106.2}

"For when a thousand years are reckoned as one day in the sight of God, and from the creation of the world to his rest is six days, so also to our time, six days are defined, as those say who are clever arithmeticians. Therefore, they say that an age of six thousand years extends from Adam to our time. For they say that the Judgment will come on the seventh day, that is, in the seventh thousand years." {1873 JNA, TFTC 106.3}

The only weekly Sabbath known to Methodius was the ancient seventh day sanctified by God in Eden. He does not intimate that this divine institution has been abolished; and what he says of the ten commandments implies the reverse of that, and he certainly makes no allusion to the [107] festival of Sunday which on the authority of "custom" and "tradition" had been by so many elevated above the Sabbath of the Lord. {1873 JNA, TFTC 106.4} ..." - John Nevins Andrews, The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day; Chapter 10; Testimony of Methodius, Bishop of Tyre, pages 105.2-106.4

"..."Moreover, the ten horns and stings which he is said to have upon his heads are the ten opposites, O virgins, to the decalogue, by which he was accustomed to gore and cast down the souls of many, imagining and contriving things in opposition to the law, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,' and to the other precepts which follow." ..." - Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers, Down to A.D. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D. Vol. XIV. The Writings of Methodius etc. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. MDCCCLXIX. (1869), - Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse viii. chap. xiii. - page 81 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tslFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"... These things being like air and phantom shadows, foretell the resurrection and the putting up of our tabernacle that had fallen upon the earth, which at length, in the seventh thousand of years, resuming again immortal, we shall celebrate the great feast of true tabernacles in the new and indissoluble creation, the fruits of the earth having been gathered in, and men no longer begetting and begotten, but God resting from the works of creation." ..." - Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers, Down to A.D. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D. Vol. XIV. The Writings of Methodius etc. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. MDCCCLXIX. (1869) - Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse ix. chap.1. - page 93 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tslFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"... For since in six days God made the heaven and the earth, and finished the whole world, and rested on the seventh day from all his works which he had made, and blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, so by a figure in the seventh month, when the fruits of the earth have been gathered in, we are commanded to keep the feast to the Lord, which signifies that, when this world shall be terminated at the seventh thousand years, when God shall have completed the world, he shall rejoice in us." ..." - Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers, Down to A.D. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D. Vol. XIV. The Writings of Methodius etc. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. MDCCCLXIX. (1869), - Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse ix. chap. i. sect. 4. - page 93 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tslFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"... the millennium of rest, which is called the seventh day, even the true Sabbath. ..." - Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers, Down to A.D. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D. Vol. XIV. The Writings of Methodius etc. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. MDCCCLXIX. (1869), - Banquet of the Ten Virgins, Discourse ix. chap. V. - The Mystery of the Tabernacles - page 100 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tslFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"... For when a thousand years are reckoned as one day in the sight of God, and from the creation of the world to his rest is six days, so also to our time, six days are defined, as those say who are clever arithmeticians. Therefore, they say that an age of six thousand years extends from Adam to our time. For they say that the Judgment will come on the seventh day, that is, in the seventh thousand years. ..." - Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers, Down to A.D. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D. Vol. XIV. The Writings of Methodius etc. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. MDCCCLXIX. (1869), - Extracts from the works of things created, section IX. - page 182 - https://books.google.com/books?id=tslFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Chinchilla said:

but how do we know which one is true ?

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Origen was a gnostic. His work is not true, and the LXX (any of them) have serious problems historically, internally, etc.

"Epistle of Barnabus" (Apocryphal; Pseudopigraphical, from the forgery, known as the 'Codex Sinaiticus') and supposedly written (70–132 CE):

"... Further, [16] also, it is written concerning the Sabbath in the Decalogue which [the Lord] spoke, face to face, to Moses on Mount Sinai, "And sanctify ye the Sabbath of the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart." [17] And He says in another place, "If my sons keep the Sabbath then will I cause my mercy to rest upon them." [18] The Sabbath mentioned at the beginning of the creation [thus]: "And God made in six days the works of His hands, and made an end on the seventh day, and rested on it, and sanctified it." [19] Attend, my children, to the meaning of this expression, "He finished in six days." This implieth that the Lord will finish all things in six thousand years, for a day is [20] with Him a thousand years. And He Himself testifieth, [21] saying, "Behold, to-day [22] will be as a thousand years." [23] Therefore, my children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things will be finished. "And He rested on the seventh day." This meaneth: when His Son, coming [again], shall destroy the time of the wicked man, [24] and judge the ungodly, and change the sun, and the moon, [25] and the stars, then shall He truly rest on the seventh day. ..." - The Ante-Nicene Father. Translations of The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. The Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Editors. American Reprint of the Edinburgh Edition. Revised and Chronologically Arranged, with Brief prefaces and Occasional Notes, by A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D. Volume I. The Apostolic Fathers. - Justin Martyr. - Irenaeus. new York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1903, The Epistle of Barnabus - Chapter XV (15) - The False and the True Sabbath, page 146 - https://books.google.com/books?id=fyUMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Irenaeus (died about 202 AD) wrote:

"... and the number is six hundred and sixty-six." [5] that is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. [He gives this] as a summing up of the whole of that apostasy which has taken place during six thousand years.

3. For in as many days as this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded. And for this reason the Scripture says: "Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a conclusion upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon he seventh day from all His wokrs." [6] This is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; [7] and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year. ..." - The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Translations of The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. The Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Editors. American Reprint of the Edinburgh Edition. Revised and Chronologically Arranged, with Brief prefaces and Occasional Notes, by A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D. Volume I. The Apostolic Fathers. - Justin Martyr. - Irenaeus. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1903, Irenaeus, Against Heresies; Chapter XXVIII. - The Distinction to be made between the righteous and the wicked. The future Apostasy in the time of Anti-Christ, and the end of the world.; page 557 - https://books.google.com/books?id=fyUMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

"... Thus, then, the six hundred years of Noah, in whose time the deluge occured because of the apostasy, and the number of the cubits of the image for which these just men were sent into the fiery furnace, do indicate the number of the name of that man in whom is concentrated the whole apostasy of six thousand years, and unrighteousness, and wickedness, and false prophecy, and deception; for which things' sake a cataclysm of fire shall also come [upon the earth]. ..." - The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Translations of The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. The Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Editors. American Reprint of the Edinburgh Edition. Revised and Chronologically Arranged, with Brief prefaces and Occasional Notes, by A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D. Volume I. The Apostolic Fathers. - Justin Martyr. - Irenaeus. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1903, Irenaeus, Against Heresies; Chapter XXIX. - All things have been created for the service of man. The deceits, wickedness, and apostate power of antichrist. This was prefigured at the deluge, as afterwards by the persecution of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.; page 558 - https://books.google.com/books?id=fyUMAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cyprian (c. 200 – September 14, 258 AD) wrote:

"... [page 52] It is an ancient adversary and an old enemy with whom we wage our battle: six thousand years are now nearly completed since the devil first attacked man. [page 52,69] ... the first seven days in the divine arrangement containing seven thousand of years ..." - The Writings of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage. Volume II. Containing the remainder of the treatises., together with The Writings of Novatian, Minucius Felix, etc. Translated by Rev. Robert Ernest Wallis, PH.D., Senior Priest Vicar of Wells Cathedral, and Incumbent of Christ Church, Coxley, Somerest. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co. Dublin: J. Robertson & Co. MDCCCLXIX. (1869); The Treatises of Cyprian. Treatise XI., Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus., page 52,69. - https://books.google.com/books?id=EcA7AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Commodianus (AD 250) wrote:

"... [page 451] We shall be immortal when six thousand years are accomplished. ... [page 451]

... [page 474] when six thousand years are completed, and the world has come to an end. ... [page 474] " - The Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Volume XVIII. The writings of Tertullian, Volume III. with the extant works of Victorinus and Commodianus.; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street. MDCCCLXX. (1870); printed by Murray and Gibb, for T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson and Co.; New York: C. Scribner and Co.; The instructions of Commodianus in favour of Christian Discipline, against the gods of the heathens. (expressed in acrostics); section 35. Of the tree of life and death. & section 80. The name of the man of Gaza; pages 451,474 (respectively) - https://books.google.com/books?id=xN8IAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Victorinus (died 303 or 304) said:

"... [page 342] that that true and just Sabbath should be observed in the seventh millenary of years. Wherefore to those seven days the Lord attributed to each a thousand years; for thus went the warning: "In Thine eyes, O lord, a thousand years are as one day." [9] Therefore in the eyes of the Lord each thousand of years is ordained, for I find that the Lord's eyes are seven. [10] Wherefore, as I have narrated, that true Sabbath will be in the seventh millenary of years, when Christ with His elect shall reign. [page 342] ...

... [page 343] The day, as I have above related, is divided into two parts by the number twelve -- by the twelve hours of day and night; and by these hours too, months, and years, and seasons, and ages are computed. Therefore, doubtless, there are appointed twelve angels of the day and twelve angels of the night, in accordance, to wit, with the number of hours. For these are the twenty-four witnesses of the days and nights [9] [9. Rev. iv. 4.] which sits before the throne of God, having golden crowns on their heads, whom the Apocalypse of John the apostle and evangelist calls elders, for the reason that they are older both than the other angels and than men. [page 343] ..." - The Ante-Nicene Fathers.; Translations of The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325.; The Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D., Editors.; American Reprint of the Edinburgh Edition.; Revised and Chronologically Arranged, with Brief Prefaces and Occasional Notes, by A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D., Volume VII.; Lactanius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily, and Liturgies. Authorized Edition., New York: The Christian Literature Company. 1896. - Victorinus, On the creation of the world. [1]; pages 342,343 (respectively) - https://books.google.com/books?id=h3PYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367) said:

"... the honor of the heavenly Kingdom is prefigured in the unfolding of six thousand years. [12] [12. This is the number of the world's duration according to tradition reflected in Cyprian, Exhort. ad Mart., praef. 2; Lactantius, Inst. 7.14. See Sur Matt. II.63, n.6.] ..." - The Fathers of the Church, St. Hilary of Poitiers, Commentary on Matthew; Translated by D.H. Williams; The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., copyright 2012; Chapter Seventeen, section 2, page 186 - https://books.google.com/books?id=2398ZZ9dIQoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Gaudentius of Brescia (Brixiensis) (bishop from 387 until 410 AD (death)):

"... St. Gaudentius, Bishop of Brescia, thus writes in the tenth century: "We are in expectation of that truly holy day of the seventh thousand which will follow after these six days, namely, after these six thousand years; which being completed, there will be a rest to real sanctity and to the true believers in the resurrection of Christ. For then there will be no fight or struggle against the Devil, who will be kept bound in the infernal abyss." [3] [3. Expectamus illum vere sanctum septimi millesimi anni diem, qui adveniet post istos sex dies, sex millium videlicet annorum [page 202-203] saeculi, quibus completis requies erit verae sanctitati, et fideliter credentibus in resurrectione Christi. Nam nulla erit ibi pugna contra diabolum, qui tunc ubique detinebitur suppliciis religatus. (In Tractatu 10.) ..." - The End of the World; or, The Second Coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.; by the very Rev. John Baptist Pagani. London: Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond Street; and 22, Paternoster Row. 1855., pages 202-203. - https://books.google.com/books?id=-pYCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Latin of "Pagani" slightly differs than the Latin of "Glueck", but the general translation or understanding basically remains unchanged:

"... [page 96; paragraph 14; line 137] septimum iam vocatum futurum dicit sanctum [page 96-97], septimum millesimum scilicet annum, de quo ait propheta ad dominum: Quoniam mille anni ante oculos tuos sicut dies unus. [page 96-97; paragraphs 14-15; lines 137-140] ..."

"... [page 97; paragraph 15; line 148] expectamus etiam illum vere sanctum diem, septimi millesimi anni diem, qui adveniet post istos sex dies, sex millium quippe annorum saeculi, quibus completis requies erit vera sanctis et fideliter credentibus in resurrectione Christi. Nam nulla erit ibi pugna contra diabolum, qui tunc utique tenebitur suppliciis religatus [page 97; paragraphs 15-16; lines 148-154] ..." - ["v" (generally) = English" "u"] Corpvs Scriptorvm Ecclesiasticorvm Latinorvm; Editvm Consilio Et Impensis; Academiae Litterarvm Vindobonensis.; Volume LXVIII (68): S. Gavdentii Tractatvs.; Recensvit Ambrosivs Glveck.; Vindobonae., Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G.; Lipsiae., Akademische Verlags-Gesellschaft M.B.H.; MCMXXXVI. (1936). S. Gavdentii Episcopi Brixiensis Tractatvs. Ad Fidem Codicvc, Recensvit; Ambrosivs Glveck.; Vindobonae., Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G.; Lipsiae., Akademische Verlags-Gesellschaft M.B.H.; MCMXXXVI. (1936). Tractatus X, De Exodi lectione VIII.; pages 96,97, paragraphs 14-16, lines 137-140, 148-154 - https://books.google.com/books?id=13AOAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false