On Illustrious Men

90. Theodorus the bishop

In the reign of Constantius he was, together with Eustathius of Sebaste, the leader of the party of the Macedonians.4 notes 1. “a physician”: R. Le Coz, “Les Pères de l’Église Grecque et la Médecine,” BLE 98 (1997): 137ff. On Ancyra see EEC 12 , 50, R. Lyman; EECh 1, 37, D. Stiernon. 2. J. N. Steenson, Basil of Ancyra and the course of Nicene orthodoxy (Ph.D. diss., Oxford, 1983). 3. CPG 2827. 4. See art., “Macedoni,” EECh 1, 516, M. Simonetti. They are also called Pneumatomachians; cf. EEC 22 , 930, F. W. Norris. references Q 3, 201–3 — Dr, 184–86 — TLG 2084 — CPG 2, 2825–2827 — Cath 1, 1280, G. Bardy — DHGE 6, 1104–7, R. Javin — DSp 1, 1283, F. Cavallera — EEC 11 , 169, E. Ferguson — EECh 1, 113, M. Simonetti — LThK 2, 31, O. Volk — LThK 23 , 66–67, W. A. Löhr — NCE 2, 147–48, H. Musurillo — Dihle, Greek and Latin, 548–49 XC. THEODORUS THE BISHOP heodorus, bishop of Heraclea in Thrace1 during the reign of the emperor Constantius,2 published Commentaries on Matthew,3 On John,4 On the Apostle [Paul],5 and On the Psalter,6 in an elegant and precise style that followed mainly the literal interpretation. notes 1. CPG 3561–66. 2. Constantius, Emperor, 337–361. 3. CPG 3562, in catenis; mentioned also in Jerome, Prolog to Hom. in Matt., quoted in Courcelle, LLW, 99 note; J. Reuss, Matthaeus-Kommentare, TU 61 (Berlin, 1957), 55–95. ON ILLUSTRIOUS MEN 123 ...