1
The final movement, 'The Completion of the Five Thousand Five Hundred Years', completes the world-age scheme of the received recension.
2
The tradition reckons five thousand five hundred years from Adam toward the birth of the Anointed.
3
The treasures associated with Adam - gold, myrrh, and incense - are carried forward as signs of continuity between the first household and the final Christian interpretation of the chronicle.
4
The Magi become the bearers of those treasures in the concluding narrative.
5
Thus the Conflict closes its long historical extension by joining the Cave of Treasures, genealogy, and the received story of Beit-Lechem.