#theodoret

[leeafygreens]

Did you make mankind after we made you?

[somepoorsod]

As soon as he took the mortal blow, he immediately filled his hand with his own lifeblood, and hurled it into the air, and said, "You've won, Galilean."

Alleged final words of Julian the Apostate, the last pagan emperor (Theodoret, Church History 3.20); my translation

Δεξάμενον τὴν πληγὴν, εὐθὺς πλῆσαι τὴν χεῖρα τοῦ αἵματος, καὶ τοῦτο ῥίψαι εἰς τὸν ἀέρα, καὶ φάναι· Νενίκηκας, Γαλιλαῖε

[eyesofdovesbytheriversofwaters]

[eyesofdovesbytheriversofwaters]

[possesseth-by-fire]

Alternate version: The noble souls of the victorious traverse the heavens and join in the dance of immaterial the beings. Their bodies are not hidden away each in its single grave, but the cities and villages that have divided them among themselves call them saviors of souls and bodies and doctors and honor them as protectors of cities and guardians and treat them as ambassadors before the master of the universe and through them receive divine gifts. And even though the body has been divided, the grace has remained undivided, and that minute relic possesses the same power as the martyr, just as if he had never in any way been divided.

Theodoret

[zhugeliangs]

[...] everyone knows the names of the martyrs, better than those of their most intimate friends.

Theodoret of Cyrrhus, as quoted from The Cult of the Saints: Its rise and function in Latin Christianity by Peter Robert Lamont Brown

[rogerpearse]

Another Matthew 27:25 reference in Theodoret on the Psalms?

Another Matthew 27:25 reference in Theodoret on the Psalms?

The next reference in the Fathers to Matthew 27:25 – “His blood be upon us and our children” – is to be found in Theodoret.  The Biblindex site gives the reference simply as “Theodoret, Interpretatio in Psalmos. PG 80, 857-1997″ which is notable for the lack of a precise column number.  Oh dear. Today I started the tedious process of flicking through the pages of a downloaded PDF of the PG80. …

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[hdslibrary]

Hidden Pictures

Can you find:

Dog

Rabbit

Snake

Torso of an archer

Conjoined, winged horn blowers sprouting from foliage

Another addition to our hypothetical rare books activity book (along with pages of woodcuts to color).

Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus.   Opera omnia in quatuor tomos distributa, quorum plurima,…  Lutetiae Parisiorum, Sumptibus S. Cramoisy, 1642-84.