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• Apollonius Of Tyana
  ...as [[Pythagoras]] portrayed as this superhuman ideal? Not certainly by any writer of the centuries before Christ. Even [[Plutarch]] ( <i> Numa, </i> c. viii.
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• John Hill Burton
  ...on of the whole work, in eight volumes, was issued in 1873. "This," says a writer in the Academy, is beyond doubt the most, indeed, the only, complete histor <p> Historian and miscellaneous writer, born at Aberdeen; an able man, bred for the bar; wrote articles for the le
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• Deists
  ...ere is now no consistent scheme of deism in the world. The first deistical writer of any note that appeared in this country was Herbert, baron of Cherbury. < ...bury, in the seventeenth century, has been regarded as the first Deistical writer in this country, or at least, the first who reduced [[Deism]] to a system;
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• John Fletcher
  ...View of St. Paul's [[Doctrine]] of the first Chapter to the Ephesians. No writer has better balanced the apparently contradictory passages of [[Scripture]]
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• Konrad Peutinger
  ...nsellor. He was a manysidqd, educated man, and is celebrated not only as a writer, but also as a humanist, and was greatly interested in Luther when he first
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• David Friedrich Strauss
  ...impure source of oral tradition. </p> <p> The predispositions with which a writer approaches a work of such profound and far reaching consequence for religio
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• William Of Tyre
  ...ch, Paris, 1573 fol.). The continuation of the work to 1285, by an unknown writer, is given in Martene, Thesaur. 5:581. An abridgment is given in Bernhard, T
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• Aurelius Augustinus
  ....]] xvi.). Augustine formulates with a clearness not found in any previous writer the distinction between what in later times was called the "gratis gratis d
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• Farhad Aphraat (Aphrahat
  ...him we are back in the indefiniteness of an earlier age, when an orthodox writer might use on one page the language of psilanthropism ( <i> Hom. </i> xvii.)
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• The Emperor Claudius
  ...laudius see "Aquila and Priscilla," and the "Proto-martyr Stephen," in the writer's <i> Biblical Studies. </i> ) </p> <p> [[[E.H.P.]]] </p>
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• The Emperor Domitianus
  ...nished to Patmos. Tertullian ( <i> de Praescript. </i> c. 36) is the first writer who mentions it. The apostle, as the chosen friend of the Son of David, may
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• Father Of Pope Gregory The Great Gordianus
  ...c. 83) describes two pictures of him and his wife Silvia remaining to the writer's time (9th cent.) in the <i> [[Atrium]] </i> of St. Andrew's monastery, wh
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• Bishop Of Rome Innocentius
  ...Johan. Chrysost. </i> ), and Cassianus, famous afterwards as a monk and a writer. Innocent represented the matter to the emperor Honorius, who wrote thrice
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• A Priest Of Antioch In Syria Isaacus Antiochenus
  ...cts; besides being authorities for the events, manners, and customs of the writer's age. </p> <p> [[[C.J.B.]]] </p>
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• Donatist Martyr Isaacus
  ...nsure their sinking. But the action of the waves, caused, according to the writer's belief, by divine interposition, tore away the sand, and after six days b
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• Archbaptist Of Seville Isidorus
  ...a trained and cultivated mind, but was rather a receptive and reproductive writer than one of strong masculine and original mind. He was a very conspicuous o
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• Bishop Of Ephesus Joannes
  ...above mentioned, which broke out in the 6th or 7th year of Justin, and the writer often apologizes for want of chronological order, occasional repetitions, a
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• Historian Of The Goths Jordanis
  ...e composition of Jordanis himself. But the most convincing evidence of the writer's want of originality has been shewn by the discovery made by Von Sybel wit
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius <ref name="term_15193" /> ...early-christian-biography/sophronius,+ecclesiastical+writer Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius from A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography]</ref>
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• Bishop Of Rome Zosimus
  ...others from Pelagius himself. These last had entirely satisfied him of the writer's orthodoxy; they had been publicly read at Rome, and received (says Zosimu
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