One of the king’s commanders then took a sheet of copper, wrote upon it the story of the youths and their encounter with King Diocletianus, placed the tablet inside a copper casket, buried it within the cave, and walled the cave over.
King Diocletianus Caesar died. Two Caesars ruled in Rome after him for two years, followed by another Caesar named Ginyonus who reigned for fifteen years; after him yet another Caesar governed for a single year and died. That ruler died in the third year of the reign of Hormuz.
In the first year of that reign, a man called Paul was appointed patriarch of Antioch—he is known as Paul of Samosata. He was the originator of the doctrine later called Paulianism, and those who adopted his creed were known as Paulianists.
His teaching held that our Master, the Messiah, was created from the Divine Essence as a human being—one of us in substance; that the Son’s beginning was from Mary; that he was chosen to be the saviour of humankind; and that divine grace accompanied him, dwelling in him by love and will—hence he was called “the Son of God.”