It has been noted that Ambrose's theology was significantly influenced by that of Origen and Didymus the Blind, two other early Christian universalists.

His education showed through his knowledge, in his writings, of Christian writers of his day, including Eusebius, Origen, Didymus the Blind, and writers of the Church of Alexandria.

At the Catechetical School of Alexandria, Jerome listened to the catechist Didymus the Blind expounding the prophet Hosea and telling his reminiscences of Anthony the Great, who had died 30 years before ; he spent some time in Nitria, admiring the disciplined community life of the numerous inhabitants of that " city of the Lord ," but detecting even there " concealed serpents ," i. e., the influence of Origen of Alexandria.

Even the translation of the treatise of Didymus the Blind on the Holy Spirit into Latin ( begun in Rome 384, completed at Bethlehem ) shows an apologetic tendency against the Arians and Pneumatomachoi.

* Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian ( approximate date )

* Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian theologian

* Didymus the Blind, an ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria ( approximate )

* Didymus the Blind ( 313 – 398 ), ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria

Didymus the Blind ( alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous ) ( c. 313 – 398 ) was a Coptic Church theologian of Alexandria, whose famous Catechetical School he led for about half a century.

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Until recently, it was not thought that any Greek Church Father had taken note of the passage before the 12th Century ; but in 1941 a large collection of the writings of Didymus the Blind ( ca.

In about 372, Rufinus travelled to the eastern Mediterranean, where he studied in Alexandria under Didymus the Blind for some time.

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Doc Didymus shares a name with the Apostle Thomas as well as the ecclesiastical writer Didymus the Blind.

: PG 39: Didymus the Blind, Amphilochius Iconiensis, Nectarius

Didymus wrote many works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of John as Against the Arians, and On the Holy Spirit, which Jerome translated into Latin.

However, the doctrine of Origen and Didymus that was found to be the most " heretical " was not universalism, nor was it the reliance on the non canonical Gospel according to the Hebrews, nor even his belief that

Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes ( Against the Letter of Philip ) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes ' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.

The short and comparatively straightforward Apocalypse of Thomas has no immediate connection with our gospel, while the canonical Jude – if the name can be taken to refer to Judas Thomas Didymus – certainly attests to early intra-Christian conflict.

There is confusion also about his place of birth, " Megara ", which Plato for example understood to be Megara Hyblaea in Sicily, while a scholiast on Plato cites Didymus for the rival theory that the poet was born in a Megara in Attica, and ventures the opinion that Theognis might have later migrated to the Sicilian Megara ( a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus ).

Formerly assumed to be identical with the Alexandrian grammarian and lexicographer Didymus Chalcenterus, because Ptolemy and Porphyry referred to him as Didymus ho mousikos ( the musician ), classical scholars now believe that this Didymus was a younger grammarian and musician working in Rome at the time of Nero ( Richter 2001 ).

For example, references can be found in the 3rd century writings of Hippolytus of Rome, who called Mary " the tabernacle exempt from defilement and corruption ," and the 4th century works of Athanasius, Epiphanius, Hilary, Didymus, Ambrose, Jerome, and Siricius continued the attestations to perpetual virginity-a trend that gathered pace in the next century.

Toward the end of the period, owing to the intermixture of foreign languages, the use of double names for the same person began to be adopted, as in the instances of Simon Peter, John Mark, Thomas Didymus, Herodes Agrippa, and Salome Alexandra.

* Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the mother of James the Just, Joses, Jude the Apostle, Simon who might be Simon the Zealot, and possibly the mother of Thomas Didymus and Mary Salome

Shortly afterward they pass through the Bog of Eternal Stench where they are reunited with Ludo and add another to their party: Sir Didymus, a chivalrous, fox-like knight who guards the bridge that leads away from the bog.

Thomas Didymus ” and “ Mass ” show this growth, as they are poems that lack her former nagging wonder and worry.

(" Such verses as neither the daughters of Didymus know, nor the debauched books of Elephantis, in which are set out new forms of lovemaking.

Saints Theodora and Didymus ( died 304 ) are Christian saints whose legend is based on a 4th century acta and the word of Saint Ambrose.

Whether Theodora and Didymus were the originals or not, it is possible that these legends are shadows of an actual martyrdom that had been lost to the story tellers.

Octavian is supposed to have had Caesarion executed in Alexandria, following the advice of Arius Didymus, who said " Too many Caesars is not good " ( a pun on a line in Homer ).

The proper form of the name is evidently Abrasax, as with the Greek writers, Hippolytus, Epiphanias, Didymus ( De Trin.

He is known to have written on Greek lyric poets, notably Bacchylides and Pindar, and on drama ; the better part of the Pindar and Sophocles scholia originated with Didymus.

In the Third Council of Constantinople in 680, Didymus was again linked with and condemned with Origen.

State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa strongly denied that Mengistu was involved in Operation Murambatsvina in any way, saying that Mengistu " does not interfere at all with the affairs of our country.

Didymus the Musician was a music theorist in Rome of the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD, who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance.

In 1973 Booker recorded The Lost Paramount Tapes at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California with members of the Dr. John band which included John Boudreaux on drums, Jessie Hill on percussion, Alvin Robinson on guitar and vocals, Richard " Didymus " Washington on percussion, David Lastie on sax and Dave Johnson on bass.

He first settled in Egypt, hearing the lectures of Didymus, the Origenistic head of the catechetical school at Alexandria, and also cultivating friendly relations with Macarius the elder and other ascetics in the desert.

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with

Intelligent, principled and a bit naive, 16-year-old Adam Eddington is a biology major who has been interning at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the summers, until " Old Doc " Didymus sends him to work with Calvin O ' Keefe instead.

The cousins of Honorius were defeated without much difficulty and two — Didymus and Theodosiolus — were captured, while two others — Lagodius and Verianus — managed to escape to safety in Constantinople.

After some initial defeats, Constans captured two of his enemies ( Didymus and Theodosiolus ), while the other two fled to Constantinople.

The story of the two is nearly identical to that of Saints Theodora and Didymus.