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Theophilus of Antioch to Autolycus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant
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The three books to Autolycus of Theophilus of Antioch enjoyed a considerable measure of popularity among later Christian writers. His work was used not only by Greek but also by Latin writers. Eusebius found it in one of the libraries he used, probably at Caesarea; it was also employed by Methodius, Epiphanius, Procopius of Gaza, and John of Damascus. Novatian, Lactantius and Jerome certainly knew his writings; probably Minucius Felix should be added to the list. Three manuscripts of the Ad Autolycum survive; two are copies (one incomplete) of a third, an eleventh or twelfth-century manuscript now in Venice.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 1947 , pp. 227 - 256
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1947

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83 Colossians i. 15.

84 As a Greek writer, Theophilus is not quite accurate in his exegesis, for the bowels should be the seat of emotion rather than of reason (see H. Lesêtre in Dictionnaire de la Bible II 1817f.). I owe this observation to the Rev. R. L. Hicks.

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