I divide the world into six ages: the age of Adam, of Noah, of Abraham, of David, of Christ, and of the pope.

“I divide the [history of the] world into six ages: the age of Adam, of Noah, of Abraham, of David, of Christ, and of the pope. Each of the first five has attained about a thousand years together with its posterity. The pope began about five thousand years after the creation of the world, that is, when Hildebrand openly ridiculed the marriage of priests in the time of Henry IV. That was the time when Bernard was born. But the pope won’t complete his thousand years.”