Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

LUCIAN (d. 312)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

LUCIAN (d. 312) , See also:Christian See also:martyr, was See also:born, like the famous, See also:heathen writer of the same name, at See also:Samosata. His parents, who were Christians, died when he was in his twelfth See also:year. In his youth he studied under Macarius of See also:Edessa, and after receiving See also:baptism he adopted a strictly ascetic See also:life, and devoted himself with zeal to the continual study of scripture. Settling at See also:Antioch when Malchion was See also:master of the See also:Greek school he became a See also:presbyter, and, while supporting himself by his skill as a rapid writer, became celebrated as a teacher, so that he is regarded as the founder of the famous theological school of Antioch. He did not See also:escape suspicion of See also:heresy, and is represented as the connecting See also:link between See also:Paul of Samosata and See also:Arius. Indeed, on the deposition of the former (A.D. 268) he was excluded from ecclesiastical fellowship by three successive bishops of Antioch, while Arius seems to have been among his pupils (See also:Theodoret, Hist. Eccl. i. 3, 4). He was, however, restored before the outbreak of persecution, and the reputation won by his high See also:character and learning was confirmed by his courageous martyrdom. He was carried to See also:Nicomedia before Maximin Daza, and persisting in his faith perished on the 7th of See also:January 312, under See also:torture and See also:hunger, which he refused to satisfy with See also:food offered to idols.

His See also:

defence is preserved by See also:Rufinus (ix. 6; on See also:Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. ix. 9). His remains were conveyed to Drepanum in See also:Bithynia, and under See also:Constantine the See also:town was founded anew in his See also:honour with the name of Helenopolis, and exempted from ta4es by the See also:emperor (A.D. 327)(see Chron. Pasch., See also:Bonn ed., p. 527). Here in 387, on the anniversary of his See also:death, See also:Chrysostom delivered the panegyrical See also:homily from which, with notices in Eusebius, Theodoret and the other ecclesiastical historians, the life by See also:Jerome (Vir. See also:Ill. cap. 77), but especially from the See also:account by S. Metaphrastes (cited at length in See also:Bernhardy's notes to Suidas, s.v. voBebei), the facts above given are derived.

See also, for the celebration of his See also:

day in the See also:Syriac churches, See also:Wright, See also:Cat. of Syr. See also:MSS. p. 283. Jerome says that Lucian wrote Libelli de fide and several letters, but only a See also:short fragment of one See also:epistle remains (Chron. Pasch., ed. See also:Dindorf, i. 516). The authorship of a See also:confession of faith ascribed to Lucian and put forth at the semi-Arian See also:synod of Antioch (A.D. 341) is questioned. Lucian's most important See also:literary labour was his edition of the Greek Old Testament corrected by the See also:Hebrew See also:text, which, according to Jerome (Adv. Ruf. ii. 77), was in current use from See also:Constantinople to Antioch.

That the edition of Lucian is represented by the text used by Chrysostom and Theodoret, as well as by certain extant MSS., such as the Arundelian of the See also:

British Museum, was proved by F. See also:Field (Prol. ad Origenis See also:Hexapla, cap. ix.). Before the publication of Field's Hexapla, See also:Lagarde had already directed his See also:attention to the Antiochian text (as that of Lucian may be called) and ultimately published the first See also:part (See also:Genesis, 2 Esdras, See also:Esther) of a provisional reconstructed text. The distinguishing marks of the Lucianic recension are thus summarized by S. R. See also:Driver, Notes on Heb. Text of See also:Samuel, p. li. seq.: (I) The substitution of synonyms for the words employed by the See also:Septuagint; (2) the occurrence of See also:double renderings; (3) the occurrence of renderings " which presuppose a Hebrew See also:original self-evidently See also:superior in the passages concerned to the existing Massoretic text," a peculiarity which makes it very important for the See also:criticism of the Hebrew See also:Bible. From a statement of Jerome in his See also:preface to the gospels it seems probable that Lucian had also a See also:share in fixing the Syrian recension of the New Testament text, but of this it is impossible to speak with certainty. He was associated in his See also:work with the Hebraist See also:Dorotheus. See, generally, A. See also:Harnack's See also:art. in Hauck-See also:Herzog, Realencyk. vol. xi., and for " remains " See also:Routh, Rel. See also:Sac. iv.

3-17. A full account of his recension of the Septuagint is given in H. B. Swete's Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, p. 81 sqq. ; and a See also:

good account of his doctrinal position in the prolegomena to the See also:volume on See also:Athanasius in the See also:series of Nicene and See also:Post-Nicene Fathers (p. See also:xxviii.) and A. Harnack's See also:History of See also:Dogma, especially vol. iv.

End of Article: LUCIAN (d. 312)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
LUCIA (or LucY), ST 		[next]
LUCIAN [Aowaavos] (c. A.D. 120-180)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries