Symmachus (translator)

Symmachus the Ebionit (late 2nd century ) was the author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament, which, inter alia, by Origen, among other translations the Septuagint, were included in the Hexapla and the Tetrapla. Some fragments of Symmachus ' version, which have been preserved in the remains of the Hexapla, researchers had the purity and elegance of idiomatic Symmachus ' Greek stress from which St. Jerome had impressed when he translated the Bible in Latin ( Vulgate ).

The Ebionites were Jews, especially in Palestine, Syria and Cappadocia, who had accepted Jesus as Messiah. However, they rejected the virgin birth and other dogmas which particular Pauline Christianity increasingly. The Ebionites were therefore condemned as a heretic.

Symmachus also wrote not received comments, in which the Gospel according to Matthew is attacked. Origen notes that he made ​​this and other of Symmachus ' comments received from a certain Juliana, who, as he says, of Symmachus himself got ( Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiae VI:. Xvii). Palladius ( Historia louse lxiv ) took place in a " very old" manuscript which derived from Origen note: "This book I found in the house of Juliana, the Virgin of Caesarea ( in Cappadocia ), when I was there, hidden; she said she had received it from the Jewish translator Symmachus himself. " Origen's stay at Juliana probably dates from the years 238-241, but Symmachus ' version of the Scriptures, Origen was already known when he wrote his first comments ( 228 ). Epiphanius of Salamis notes unreliable, Symmachus was a Samaritan, who had with his own people who had converted to Judaism, fallen out.

After many authors who speak of Symmachus, he must be an important man among the Ebionites have been, especially since " Symmachianer " was a term that was still used by Catholics in the 4th century for the Nazarenes and Ebionites, as the pseudo - Ambrose ( in " Ambrosiaster ", the prologue to the book of Galatians ) and of Augustine of Hippo is described in his writings against the heretics.

  • Theologian (2nd century)
  • Bible translators
  • Born in the 2nd century
  • Died on the 2nd or 3rd century
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