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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72189" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72189" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''Dionys'ius.''' (devoted to Dionysus, that is, Bacchus). Dionysius. the Areop'agite, Acts 17:34. An eminent Athenian, converted to [[Christianity]] by the preaching of St. Paul. (A.D. 52). He is said to have been first bishop of Athens. The writings which were once attributed to him are now confessed to be the production of some neo-Platonists of the sixth century. </p> | ||
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80575" /> == | == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80575" /> == | ||
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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69961" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69961" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''Dionysius''' (dî'o-nîsh'ĭ-ŭs), belonging to Dionysus, or Bacchus. An eminent Athenian, converted by means of Paul's preaching. Acts 17:34. Tradition reports him to have been bishop of Athens, and to have suffered martyrdom there. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65726" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65726" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_37473" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_37473" /> == | ||
<p> bishop of Corinth, A.D. 170, of whom little now is known, appears to have been in considerable repute in the days of Eusebius, for eight epistles which he had written: </p> <p> | <p> bishop of Corinth, A.D. 170, of whom little now is known, appears to have been in considerable repute in the days of Eusebius, for eight epistles which he had written: </p> <p> '''1,''' to the Lacedaemonians; </p> <p> '''2,''' to the Athenians; </p> <p> '''3,''' to the believers of Nicomedia, the capital of Bithynia; </p> <p> '''4,''' to the Church at Gortyna, and the other churches of Crete; </p> <p> '''5,''' to the Church in Amastris, together with those throughout Pontus; </p> <p> '''6,''' to the Gnossians; </p> <p> '''7,''' to the Romans </p> <p> '''8;''' to Chrysophora, an eminent [[Christian]] matron. </p> <p> These are all lost except a few fragments preserved by Eusebius; Hist. Eccl. 4:23, and 2:25. See extracts from these fragments in Lardner, Works (ed. Kippis), 2:144 sq. The Fragmenta are given in Gallandii Bibl. Patr. 1:675, and in Routh, Reliquiae Sacrae (Oxon. 1814), 1:163 sq. See Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, 4:408; 12:175 (ed. Harles); Ceillier, Hist. Gin. d. auteurs sacres (Paris, 1865), 1:461. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3169" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3169" /> == | ||
<p> '''''dı̄''''' -'''''ō̇''''' -'''''nish´i''''' -'''''us''''' ( | <p> '''''dı̄''''' -'''''ō̇''''' -'''''nish´i''''' -'''''us''''' ( Διονύσιος , <i> '''''Dionúsios''''' </i> , surnamed "the Areopagite"): One of the few [[Athenians]] converted by Paul ( Acts 17:34 ). We know nothing further about him (see [[Areopagus]] ). According to one account he was the first bishop of the church at Athens; according to another he suffered martyrdom in that city under Domitian. We are even told that he migrated to Rome and was sent to Paris, where he was beheaded on Montmartre (Mount of the Martyr). The patron saint of [[France]] is Denys; compare the French "Denys d'Halicarnasse" (Dionysius of Halicarnassus). The mystical writings which were circulated in the Middle Ages and are still extant, are pronounced by the best authorities to be forgeries, and date from a period not earlier than the 5th century. </p> | ||
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