On Illustrious Men

30. Philip the bishop

7. See A. J. Droge, Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture (Tübingen, 1989), 82–101; M. Elze, Tatian und seine Theologie (Ph.D. diss., Tübingen University, 1958) = FKDG 9 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1960). See also R. M. Grant, “Tatian and the Bible,” StudPat 1 (1957): 297–306; idem, HThR 46 (1953): 99–101; idem, JThS 5 (1954): 62–68; idem, “Tatian (Or. 30) and the Gnostics,” JThS 15 (1964): 5–69; M. Marcovich, “Codex Arethae and Tatian,” JÖByz 44 (1994): 307–12; R. Merkelbach, “Tatian 40,” VigChr 21 (1967): 219–20; M. Naldini , “Dai Papiri della Raccolta Fiorentina. Lettera di Tatianos al padre,” Chairemon 4 (Athens and Rome, 1967): 163–68; A. Orbe, “A proposito de Gen. 1.3 en la exegesis de Tatien,” Greg 42 (1961): 401–43. references Q 1, 220–28 — Dr, 64–67 — CPG 1104–6 — DSp 15, 52–57, A. Solignac — EEC 22 , 1105–6, F. W. Norris — EECh 2, 815, F. Bolgiani — Dihle, Greek and Latin, 303 XXX. PHILIP THE BISHOP hilip, bishop of Crete, or rather of the city of Gortyn,1 of which Dionysius makes mention in the letter which he wrote to the church of that city,2 2. published an important work Against Marcion,3 and flourished in the time of Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus.4 notes 1. Cf. Eus., h.e. 4.21, which makes Philip a contemporary of Hegesippus. Titus 1.5 tells us that Paul left Titus in Crete “to appoint presbyters in every city.” Titus himself is credited with having been first bishop of Gortyn. 2. Dionysius, ad Cretenses = h.e. 4.23.5; cf. DVI 27.2. 3. Against Marcion, named in h.e. 4.25.1, which describes the work, now lost, as very elaborate, and links Philip with Irenaeus and Modestus as antiMarcionite writers. 4. Chron., a.d. 204. ON ILLUSTRIOUS MEN 53 ...