 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1877 - 486 sider
...Eusebius, to discredit the statement of the historian, so as to substantiate the fable. then applied to " some bishops, who told him that he would be cleansed from sin on repentance and the reception of baptism." But Sozomen rejects this story as " the invention of persons who desired... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1877 - 446 sider
...Eusebius, to discredit the statement of the historian, so as to substantiate the fable. then applied to " some bishops, who told him that he would be cleansed from sin on repentance and the reception of baptism." But Sozomen rejects this story as " the invention of persons who desired... | |
 | Sozomen, Saint Photius I (Patriarch of Constantinople) - 1855 - 588 sider
...salutare," and referring to Gretser, de Cruce, lib. ii. of his evil deeds, and inquired of Sosipater,1 the philosopher, who was then master of the school...persons who desired to vilify the Christian religion. Crispus,2 on whose account, it is said, Constantino required purification, did not die till the twentieth... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 489 sider
...assenting to the murder of his own son Crispus, repented of his evil deeds, and inquired of Sopater,4 the philosopher, who was then master of the school...baptism, he was delighted with their representations, and admired their doctrines, and became a Christian, and led his subjects to the same faith. It appears... | |
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Sopater,5 the philosopher, who was then master of the school of Plotinus, concerning the means of purification from guilt. The philosopher — so the story goes — replied that such moral defilement could admit of no purification. The emperor was grieved... 