 | William James E. Bennett - 1851 - 500 sider
...it " thrust upon them," for S. Ephrem, without any instruction, became as we are told by Sozomen, " so proficient in the learning and language of the...Syrians, that he comprehended with ease the most abstruse theories of philosophy."1 His style of writing, says the same historian, was so replete with splendid... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1872 - 512 sider
...devoted his life to monastic philosophy," says Sozomen; "and although he had received no education, he became, contrary to all expectation, so proficient...Syrians, that he comprehended with ease the most abstruse problems of philosophy. His style of writing was so full of glowing oratory and sublimity of thought,... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1875 - 382 sider
...them," for S. Ephrem, without any instruction, became as we 1 Sozomen, iii. 16. are told by Sozomen, " so proficient in the learning and language of the...Syrians, that he comprehended with ease the most abstruse theories of philosophy."1 His style of writing, says the same historian, was so replete with splendid... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1882 - 480 sider
...devoted his life to monastic philosophy," says Sozomen ; " and although he had received no education, he became, contrary to all expectation, so proficient...Syrians, that he comprehended with ease the most abstruse problems of philosophy. His style of writing was so full of glowing oratory and sublimity of thought,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - 1916 - 240 sider
...Christian. According to Theodoret, Ephraem was ' totally untainted by heathen education.' * Sozomen says : ' Although he received no instruction, he became, contrary...with ease the most abstruse theorems of philosophy.' § Nisibis was captured by the Persians in 363, and that was the year in which Ephraem left there,... | |
 | Ute Possekel - 1999 - 284 sider
...Syrian's comprehension of philosophy without having received formal training in the subject: Ephrem "devoted his life to monastic philosophy; and although...comprehended with ease the most abstruse theorems of philosophy."86 These reports indicate that Ephrem did not receive formal rhetorical and philosophical... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 2007 - 489 sider
...ornament of the Catholic Church. He was a na,tive of Nisibis, or his family was of the neighboring territory. He devoted his life to monastic philosophy...of writing was so replete with splendid oratory and with richness and temperateness of thought that he surpassed the most approved writers of Greece. If... | |
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Nisibis, or his family was of the neighboring territory. He devoted his life to monastic philosophy ; and although he received no instruction, he became, contrary to all expectation, so proficient in the learning and language of the Syrians, that he comprehended... 