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Blind since early childhood, the Egyptian theologian and monk Didymus (ca. 313–398) wielded a masterful knowledge of Scripture, philosophy, and previous biblical interpretation, earning the esteem of his contemporaries Athanasius, Antony of Egypt, Jerome, Rufinus, and Palladius, as well as of the historians Socrates and Theodoret in the decades following his death. He was, however, anathematized...

governance is nothing other than lawful oversight; none of the others, for instance, governs its fellows, unless on occasion the sheep called “ram” commands a herd by giving a lead, doing so not by reason, as with human shepherds, but by nature. A human being, on the other hand, was made in the image and likeness of God to govern the ones mentioned. Now, since we claim in another sense that the human being, who by an order was made in God’s image and likeness, is man’s intelligence (154), we take
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