Against mathematicians' great year and the rabbinic six-thousand-year scheme ascribed to Elijah
Therefore certain mathematicians and philosophers are in vain who say that it will be in the great year, within which the sun, moon, and all the stars return to the same place of heaven whence they set out; on which see Censorinus On the Birthday chapter 18. The opinion of the Jews and of certain fathers also seems propped on uncertain conjectures — that the world will last six thousand years: two before the law, two under the law, two after the law under the Messiah. That this was said by Elijah the Tishbite has been believed not only by Jews but by many of the Christians, as by Stratonicus bishop of Cumae, as Sixtus of Siena proves from his collectanea (Sacred Library book 2, under Elias), who himself also seems to have been of that sentence, and also Ludovicus Vives (City of God book 20, chapter 7).
We confess indeed that it is Elijah's — but not the Tishbite's, but a Cabbalist Rabbi's, whose comment, as Genebrard observes at the start of his Chronography, is read in the Talmud, in the treatise Sanhedrin and in the treatise On Idolatry and in the treatise On the Sabbath.
Latin
Frustra igitur sunt Mathematici quidam & philosophi, qui dicunt, fore eam anno magno, intra quem sol, luna & sidera cuncta ad eundem caeli locum, unde profecta sunt, remeant; de quo vide Censorinum de die natali cap. 18. Incertis quoque subnixa videtur conjecturis Judaeorum & quorundam patrum opinio, mundum duraturum sex annorum millibus: duobus ante legem, duobus sub lege, duobus post legem sub Messia. Quod dictum esse Eliae Thisbitae, non a Judaeis solum, sed Christianorum multis creditum est, uti Stratonico Cumano episcopo, quemadmodum ex collectaneis ejus probat Sixtus Senensis lib. 2. bibl. in Helias, qui & ipse ejus sententiae fuisse videtur, atque etiam Ludovicus Vives in lib. 20. de C.D. cap. 7. Nos Eliae quidem esse fatemur, at non Thisbitae, sed Rabbini Cabbalistae, cujus commentum, ut Genebrardus observat initio Chronographiae, legitur in Talmud, tractatu Sanhedrin & in tract. de idololatria & in tract. de sabbato.