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The Great Cloud of Witnesses · The Fathers & the Creeds
Cosmas Indicopleustes
?–550
Patristic / Eastern voice, d. ~550
The life
Cosmas Indicopleustes (d. ~550). Patristic / Eastern voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full profile pending.
In their own words
“How by his teaching regarding the form of a servant which he took upon him, did he deign to show mildly glimpses of his divinity, to receive accusations preferred against him by his own creatures, and to answer them, not with anger but with mildness …”
The Christian Topography, Book 5 · on the verse
“Let us be eager to enter into that rest; speaking of that rest as if there is no other after it, but a kingdom that cannot be shaken, meaning one that has no successor.”
The Christian Topography, Book 5 · on the verse
“The writers again of Egyptian history, namely, Manethô, and Chaerêmôn, Apollonius surnamed Molôn, Lysimachus and Apiôn the Grammarian mention Moses and the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt. For, as being Egyptians and the historians of Egypt, they also agree in their relations …”
The Christian Topography, Book 12 · on the verse