https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Methodius_of_Olympus&feed=atom&action=historyMethodius of Olympus - Revision history2024-03-28T10:44:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Methodius_of_Olympus&diff=112757&oldid=prevAngellight 888: correct feast day with references; add links; minor cleanup;2012-11-13T03:32:41Z<p>correct feast day with references; add links; minor cleanup;</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hiero[[martyr]] '''Methodius of Olympus''' was the Bishop of Olympus in Lycia during the late third and early fourth centuries. He was a theologian and prolific author. The place of his martyrdom is uncertain. His [[feast day]] is [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">September 18</del>]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Hiero[[martyr]] '''Methodius of Olympus'''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref group="note">According to the Greek text of the ''Great Synaxaristes'', the reference in some sources that Methodius </ins>was the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</ins>Bishop of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[w:Patara (Lycia)|Patara]]" is untrue, resulting from the fact that his dialogue ''On the Resurrection (Aglaophon e peri tes anastaseos)'' took place in Patara.</ref> was the Bishop of [[w:Olympos (Lycia)|</ins>Olympus in Lycia<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>during the late third and early fourth centuries. He was a theologian and prolific author. The place of his martyrdom is uncertain. His [[feast day]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the Orthodox Church </ins>is [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">June 20]</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.<ref>Great Synaxaristes: {{el icon}}: ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/3900/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Μεθόδιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ὀλύμπου</ins>].<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' 20 Ιουνίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=101759 Hieromartyr Methodius the Bishop of Patara].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref><ref>''[http://days.pravoslavie.ru/en/Days/20120620.htm June 20/July 3].'' Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Life==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Life==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The date and place of his birth are unknown. Very few reports of his life have been handed down to us. He is not mentioned by Eusebius in his ''Church History''. St. Jerome provided the earliest accounts of him, reporting him as Bishop of Olympus. Jerome's report report of his having been Bishop of Tyre has not been reconciled.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The date and place of his birth are unknown. Very few reports of his life have been handed down to us. He is not mentioned by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Eusebius <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of Caesarea|Eusebius]] </ins>in his ''Church History''. St. Jerome provided the earliest accounts of him, reporting him as Bishop of Olympus. Jerome's report report of his having been Bishop of Tyre has not been reconciled.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Methodius received a comprehensive education with a strong influence from Plato's philosophy. While Methodius recognized the services of Origen in ecclesiastical theology, he is noted for his attacks on erroneous views presented by [[Origen]], particularly that of his doctrine that man's body at the [[resurrection]] is not that as he had in life.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Methodius received a comprehensive education with a strong influence from Plato's philosophy. While Methodius recognized the services of Origen in ecclesiastical theology, he is noted for his attacks on erroneous views presented by [[Origen]], particularly that of his doctrine that man's body at the [[resurrection]] is not that as he had in life.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Large portions of the original Greek text of the following writings, in the form of dialogue, are preserved:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Large portions of the original Greek text of the following writings, in the form of dialogue, are preserved:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:</ins>* ''On the Resurrection'' (''Aglaophon e peri tes anastaseos''), in which the doctrine that the same body that man has in life will be awakened to incorruptibility at the resurrection is specially put forward in opposition to Origen.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of the following four shorter treatises, only Slavonic versions are preserved:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of the following four shorter treatises, only Slavonic versions are preserved:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*''De cibis'', on Jewish dietary laws, and on the young cow, which is mentioned in Leviticus, with allegorical explanation of the [[Old Testament]] food-legislation and the red cow (Num., xix).</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*''De lepra'', on leprosy, to Sistelius, a dialogue between Eubulius (Methodius) and Sistelius on the mystic sense of the Old Testament references to lepers (Lev., xiii).</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*''De sanguisuga'', on the leech in Proverbs (Prov., xxx, 15 sq.) and on the text, "the heavens show forth the glory of God" (Ps. xviii, 2).</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jerome mentions other writings, that no longer are extant: a voluminous work against Porphyry, the Neoplatonist who had published a book against Christianity; a treatise on the ''Pythonissa'' directed against Origen, commentaries on Genesis and the Canticle of Canticles. While other authors attributed a work ''On the Martyrs'', and a dialogue ''Xenon'' to Methodius. In the latter he opposes the doctrine of Origen on the eternity of the world.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* ''De vita'', on life and rational action, which exhorts in particular to contentedness in this life and to the hope of the life to come.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* ''De cibis'', on Jewish dietary laws, and on the young cow, which is mentioned in Leviticus, with allegorical explanation of the [[Old Testament]] food-legislation and the red cow (Num., xix).</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* ''De lepra'', on leprosy, to Sistelius, a dialogue between Eubulius (Methodius) and Sistelius on the mystic sense of the Old Testament references to lepers (Lev., xiii).</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:* ''De sanguisuga'', on the leech in Proverbs (Prov., xxx, 15 sq.) and on the text, "the heavens show forth the glory of God" (Ps. xviii, 2).</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Jerome<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>mentions other writings, that no longer are extant: a voluminous work against <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[w:</ins>Porphyry <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(philosopher)|Porphyry]]</ins>, the Neoplatonist who had published a book against Christianity; a treatise on the ''Pythonissa'' directed against <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Origen<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, commentaries on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Genesis<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>and the Canticle of Canticles. While other authors attributed a work ''On the Martyrs'', and a dialogue ''Xenon'' to Methodius. In the latter he opposes the doctrine of Origen on the eternity of the world.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Methodius died a [[martyr]] possibly in 311.  </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [[Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Angellight 888https://en.orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Methodius_of_Olympus&diff=112742&oldid=prevWsk: new article2012-11-12T02:27:29Z<p>new article</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Hiero[[martyr]] '''Methodius of Olympus''' was the Bishop of Olympus in Lycia during the late third and early fourth centuries. He was a theologian and prolific author. The place of his martyrdom is uncertain. His [[feast day]] is [[September 18]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
The date and place of his birth are unknown. Very few reports of his life have been handed down to us. He is not mentioned by Eusebius in his ''Church History''. St. Jerome provided the earliest accounts of him, reporting him as Bishop of Olympus. Jerome's report report of his having been Bishop of Tyre has not been reconciled.<br />
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Methodius received a comprehensive education with a strong influence from Plato's philosophy. While Methodius recognized the services of Origen in ecclesiastical theology, he is noted for his attacks on erroneous views presented by [[Origen]], particularly that of his doctrine that man's body at the [[resurrection]] is not that as he had in life. <br />
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The state of his works that have come to us vary. His dialogue on virginity, under the title ''Symposium, or on Virginity'' (''Symposion e peri hagneias''), has come down to us complete in a Greek text. Other writings in Greek exist as large fragments, and there are old versions in Slavonic of which some are abbreviated.<br />
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Large portions of the original Greek text of the following writings, in the form of dialogue, are preserved:<br />
*''On Free Will'' (''peri tou autexousiou''), an important treatise attacking the [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] view of the origin of evil and in proof of the freedom of the human will.<br />
*''On the Resurrection'' (''Aglaophon e peri tes anastaseos''), in which the doctrine that the same body that man has in life will be awakened to incorruptibility at the resurrection is specially put forward in opposition to Origen.<br />
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Of the following four shorter treatises, only Slavonic versions are preserved:<br />
*''De vita'', on life and rational action, which exhorts in particular to contentedness in this life and to the hope of the life to come.<br />
*''De cibis'', on Jewish dietary laws, and on the young cow, which is mentioned in Leviticus, with allegorical explanation of the [[Old Testament]] food-legislation and the red cow (Num., xix).<br />
*''De lepra'', on leprosy, to Sistelius, a dialogue between Eubulius (Methodius) and Sistelius on the mystic sense of the Old Testament references to lepers (Lev., xiii).<br />
*''De sanguisuga'', on the leech in Proverbs (Prov., xxx, 15 sq.) and on the text, "the heavens show forth the glory of God" (Ps. xviii, 2).<br />
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Jerome mentions other writings, that no longer are extant: a voluminous work against Porphyry, the Neoplatonist who had published a book against Christianity; a treatise on the ''Pythonissa'' directed against Origen, commentaries on Genesis and the Canticle of Canticles. While other authors attributed a work ''On the Martyrs'', and a dialogue ''Xenon'' to Methodius. In the latter he opposes the doctrine of Origen on the eternity of the world.<br />
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Methodius died a martyr possibly in 311. <br />
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==Sources==<br />
*[[Wikipedia: Methodius_of_Olympus]]<br />
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10243a.htm St. Methodius of Olympus]<br />
*[http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc07/htm/ii.xii.htm Methodius]<br />
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