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Malchion.
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Translator’s Biographical
Notice.
[a.d. 270.]
Eusebius1388
| 1388
Hist. Eccles., vii. 29. | speaks of
Malchion as a man accomplished in other branches of learning1389
| 1389
ἀνὴρ
τά τε ἄλλα
λόγιος. | and
well-versed in Greek letters in particular, and as holding the
presidency of the Sophists’ school at Antioch.
Jerome1390
| 1390 De
viris illustr., ch. 71. | says that he
taught rhetoric most successfully in the same city.
Nor was it only that he
excelled in secular erudition; but for the earnest sincerity of his
Christian faith he obtained the dignity of presbyter in the church of
that place, as Eusebius also tells us. He took part in the Synod
of Antioch, which Eusebius calls the final council, and which Gallandi
and others call the second, in opposition to Pearson, who holds
that there was but one council at Antioch. This synod met
apparently about a.d. 269, and dealt with Paul
of Samosata, who had introduced the heresy of Artemon into the church
of Antioch; and Eusebius says that Malchion was the only one who, in
the discussion which took place there with the arch-heretic, and which
was taken down by stenographers who were present, was able to detect
the subtle and crafty sentiments of the man. Paul’s real
opinions being thus unveiled, after he had baffled the acuteness of his
ecclesiastical judges for some time, he was at length convicted; and
the discussion was published, and a synodical epistle was sent on the
subject to Dionysius, bishop of Rome, and to Maximus of Alexandria, and
to all the provinces, which, according to Jerome (De vir.
illustr., ch. 71), was written by Malchion, and of which we have
extracts in Eusebius.1391
| 1391 In
Eusebius, vii. 30. [Elucidation I., p. 172.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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