On Illustrious Men

77. Lucian the presbyter

references Q 2, 111–13 — Cath 11, 318, P.-Th. Camelot — EEC 22 , 920, F. W. Norris — EECh 2, 687, C. Kannengiesser — LThK 8, 496, J. Quasten — NCE 11, 349, F. X. Murphy LXXVII. LUCIAN THE PRESBYTER ucian, a very cultivated man, a priest of the church of Antioch,1 so applied himself to the study of the Scriptures that down to this day some of the copies of the Scriptures are called after him.2 2. Works On Faith3 are ascribed to him, and short epistles to various recipients. 3. For confessing Christ, he was put to death in Nicomedia during the persecution of Maximinus4 and was buried at Helenopolis in Bithynia. notes 1. Eus., h.e. 9.6.3. 2. CPG 1723; B. M. Metzger, Chapters in the History of New Testament Textual Criticism (The Lucianic Recension of the Greek Bible), New Testament Tools and Studies 4 (Leiden, 1963), 1–41. 3. Cf. h.e. 8.13.2. 4. h.e. 8.13.2 and 9.6.3. For Maximinus Daia (310–313), cf. h.e. 9.6.4 through 9.7.15. references Q 2, 142–44 — Dr, 197 — CPG 1720–1723 — EEC 22 , 697, F. W. Norris — EECh 1, 507, M. Simonetti — Dihle, Greek and Latin, 382 — G. Bardy, Recherches sur Saint Lucien d’Antioche et son école (Paris, 1936) ON ILLUSTRIOUS MEN 109 ...