4 and in the daytime in the sight of all, flying to the altar of the Sun, it layeth them thereupon; and this done, it setteth forth to return. (1CL) 5 So the priests examine the registers of the times, and they find that it hath come when the five hundredth year is completed. (1CL)
1 Clement 25:4–5
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