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DIDYMUS (?3o9-?394)

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DIDYMUS (?3o9-?394) , surnamed " the See also:Blind," ecclesiastical writer of See also:Alexandria, was See also:born about the See also:year 309. Although he became blind at the See also:age of four, before he had learned to read; he succeeded in mastering the whole circle of the sciences then known; and on entering the service of the See also:Church he was placed at the See also:head of the Catechetical school in Alexandria, where he lived and worked till almost the See also:close of the See also:century. Among his pupils were See also:Jerome and See also:Rufinus. He was a loyal follower of See also:Origen, though stoutly opposed to Arian and Macedonian teaching. Such of his writings as survive show a remarkable knowledge of scripture, and have distinct value as theological literature. Among them are the De Trinitate, De Spiritu Sancta (Jerome's Latin See also:translation), Adversus Manichaeos, and notes and expositions of various books, especially the See also:Psalms and the See also:Catholic Epistles. See See also:Migne, See also:Patrol. Graec. xxxix.; 0. Bardenhewer, Patrologie, pp. 290-293 (See also:Freiburg, 1894).

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