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Headword:
Loukianos
Adler number: lambda,685
Translated headword: Loukianos, Lucianus, Lucian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Lucian] the martyr; this man was from
Samosata in
Syria,[1] born in the upper class. In his youth he met a certain man called Makarios, who lived in
Edessa and gave explanatory lectures on the sacred books, and in a short time [Lucian] made his own whatever excellence this man had. And he entered into monastic life and reached the standard of every human excellence. He also entered the holy service, became a presbyter in
Antioch, and established a large school there, as the best people from various regions were coming to him. This man thought that the holy books had taken in much of what was counterfeit within themselves, because time had corrupted much of their content, and there had been continuous changes in them from one thing to another, and on account of certain worthless men, who had been in the forefront of Hellenism and who wished to pervert their meaning and put in much that was illegitimate. So he re-edited the books, taking his cues from the Hebrew language, which he had learned quite well, as he put much effort into the correction of the holy books.[2] And furthermore one can find that he guarded the purity of the divine doctrines to the greatest degree among his contemporaries.
For he also published doubtless most excellent letters, from which one may very easily learn what idea he held of divine matters. He was martyred in the time of Maximian[3] in Nicomedia of
Bithynia.
Loukianos ho martus: houtos ek Samosatôn tês Surias ên, anêr tôn eu gegonotôn. para de tên prôtên hêlikian Makariôi tini tounoma sungenomenos tên Edessan oikounti kai tas hieras biblous exêgoumenôi, pan ho ti kalliston ephere peri touton ekeinos en ou pollôi sunelabe chronôi. kai pros te ton monaulion apekline bion kai eis hapan aretês anthrôpeias aphiketo metron. proubê de kai eis hierôsunên, presbuteros en Antiocheiai genomenos, kai didaskaleion mega ekei sunestêsato, hekastachothen spoudaiotatôn hôs auton allachothen allôn aphiknoumenôn. houtos tas hieras biblous theasamenos polu to nothon eisdexamenas, tou te chronou lumênamenou polla tôn en autais kai tês sunechous aph' heterôn eis hetera metatheseôs, kai mentoi kai tinôn anthrôpôn ponêrotatôn, hoi tou Hellênismou proestêkesan, paratrepsai ton en autais thelêsantôn noun kai polu to kibdêlon enskeuasamenôn, autos hapasas analabôn ek tês Hebraïdos autas epaneneôsato glôttês, hên kai autên êkribôkôs es ta malista ên, ponon têi epanorthôsei pleiston eisenenkamenos. ou mên de alla kai tên katharotêta tôn theiôn dogmatôn para toutôi tis an malista tôn kat' ekeinon ton chronon genomenôn ep' akron heuroi phulattomenên. exetheto gar kai epistolas amelei gennaiotatas, ex hôn phôrasai tis an eu mala rhaidiôs, hên ho anêr peri tôn theiôn esôize gnômên. emarturêse de epi Maximianou en Nikomêdeiai tês Bithunias.
Notes:
From the
Life of Lucian the Martyr (ed. Bidez), with an addendum from Hieronymus (Jerome),
De viris inlustribus (ed. Gebhardt).
[1] Like his earlier namesake
lambda 683; cf.
sigma 82.
[2] cf.
nu 447.
[3] Early C4 AD.
Translated by: Akihiko Watanabe on 21 May 1999@01:59:02.
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