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| Pantaenus the philosopher.
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XXXVI.
Pantaenus,2440
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Alexandria about 179, died about 216. | a philosopher of the stoic school,
according to some old Alexandrian custom, where, from the time of2441
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were always doctors, was of so great prudence and erudition both in
scripture and secular literature that, on the request of the legates of
that nation, he was sent to India by Demetrius bishop of Alexandria,
where he found that Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles, had
preached the advent of the Lord Jesus according to the gospel of
Matthew, and on his return to Alexandria he brought this with him
written in Hebrew characters. Many of his commentaries on Holy
Scripture are indeed extant, but his living voice was of still greater
benefit to the churches. He taught in the reigns of the emperor Severus
and Antoninus surnamed Caracalla.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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