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By the mid-2nd century, Melito of Sardis engaged with the Apocalypse, and around the year 170, he wrote a work titled On the Devil and the Apocalypse of John, which has been lost. Also lost is a commentary by Didymus the Blind. [3] At the end of the 2nd century, Irenaeus (d. 202) brought the accomplishments of the Anatolian exegesis to the West ...
Justin's possible knowledge of John's gospel may be suggested by verbal similarities to John 3:4 directly after the discussion about the new birth ("Now, that it is impossible for those who have once been born to enter their mother's womb is manifest to all"). Justin also uses language very similar to that of John 1:20 and 1:28.
John of Damascus (c. 676 – 749) was a Syrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist. Born and raised in Damascus , he died at his monastery, Mar Saba , near Jerusalem. A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he was given the by-name of Chrysorrhoas (Χρυσορρόας ...
This system became the basis of an exegesis which expounds the first Ogdoad of the Pleroma based on the prologue of John's gospel. In addition, Ptolemy subdivides the part of the Decalogue ascribed to the inferior god into three further sections: The absolutely pure legislation of the Decalogue which was not destroyed but fulfilled by the Saviour.
Epiphanius launched a campaign against John, openly preaching that John was an Origenist deviant. [244] He successfully persuaded Jerome to break communion with John and ordained Jerome's brother Paulinianus as a priest in defiance of John's authority. [244] In 397, Rufinus published a Latin translation of Origen's On First Principles.
The priesthood - a translation of the Peri hierosynes of St. John Chrysostom, by W.A. Jurgens, (New York, Macmillan, 1955) Commentary on Saint John the apostle and evangelist - homilies 1-47, translated by Sister Thomas Aquinas Goggin, Fathers of the Church vol 33, (New York, Fathers of the Church Inc, 1957)
Traditionally, this was often believed to be the same person as John the Apostle (John, son of Zebedee), one of the apostles of Jesus, to whom the Gospel of John was also attributed. [8] The early-2nd-century writer, Justin Martyr, was the first to equate the author of Revelation with John the Evangelist. [9] [citation needed]
That is seen especially in the exegesis of Justin Martyr, [1] Aphraates, Ephraem Syrus and Origen of Alexandria. Jerome's teachers are even mentioned by name such as Bar Ḥanina (Hananiah). In the Middle Ages, Christian converts from Judaism provided a key source of Hebrew education, as native Christians rarely learned the language.