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There are also extant portions of commentaries on the
Gospels from his pen. Of the excellence of his style and of his practical religious zeal we are able to judge from the thirteen homilies on the Christian life and character which have been edited and translated by
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Apart from his redoubtable powers as a controversialist, Philoxenus is remembered as a scholar, an elegant writer, and an exponent of practical
Christianity. Of the chief monument of his scholarship – the Philoxenian version of the Bible – only the
85:. His parents were from the Median city of Ecbatana. The statements that he had been a slave and was never baptized appear to be malicious inventions of his theological opponents following his death. He was educated at
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Assyrian Church or the church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100-640 A.D., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, UK.
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is manifest both in his choice of subjects and his manner of treatment. As his quotations from
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Christian divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D.
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