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36 Pantaenus the philosopher PL 23, 651
Pantaenus, a philosopher of the stoic school, according to some old Alexandrian custom, where, from the time of Mark the evangelist the ecclesiastics were always doctors, was of so great prudence and erudition both in scripture and secular literature that, on the request of the legates of that nation, he was sent to India by Demetrius bishop of Alexandria, where he found that Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles, had preached the advent of the Lord Jesus according to the gospel of Matthew, and on his return to Alexandria he brought this with him written in Hebrew characters. Many of his commentaries on Holy Scripture are indeed extant, but his living voice was of still greater benefit to the churches. He taught in the reigns of the emperor Severus and Antoninus surnamed Caracalla.
Pantaenus, Stoicae sectae philosophus, juxta quamdam veterem in Alexandria consuetudinem, ubi a Marco evangelista semper Ecclesiastici fuere Doctores, tantae prudentiae et eruditionis tam in Scripturis divinis, quam in saeculari litteratura fuit, ut in Indiam quoque rogatus ab illius gentis legatis, a Demetrio Alexandriae episcopo, mitteretur. Ubi reperit, Bartholomaeum de duodecim Apostolis, adventum Domini nostri Jesu Christi juxta Matthaei Evangelium praedicasse, quod Hebraicis litteris scriptum, revertens Alexandriam secum detulit. Hujus multi quidem in sanctam Scripturam exstant commentarii: sed magis viva voce Ecclesiis profuit. Docuitque sub Severo principe, et Antonino, cognomento Caracalla.
Πανταῖνος, Στωϊκοῦ δόγματος φιλόσοφος, κατά τινα παλαιὰν τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων συνήθειαν, ἐν ᾗ ἀπὸ Μάρκου τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ ἐκκλησιαστικοὶ γεγόνασι διδάσκαλοι, τοσαύτης σοφίας καὶ παιδεύσεως, τοῦτο ἐν ταῖς θείαις γραφαῖς, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ τοῖς κοσμικοῖς γράμμασιν ἐντὸς γέγονεν, ὥστε παρακληθέντα ( Al. περικληθέντα) αὐτὸν παρὰ τῶν Ἰνδίας πρεσβυτέρων, ὑπὸ Δημητρίου Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπισκόπου εἰς τὴν Ἰνδίαν ἀποσταλῆναι, ἐν ᾗ εὗρε Βαρθολομαῖον ἐκ τῶν δώδεκα Ἀποστόλων, τὴν ἔλευσιν τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ κατὰ τὸ Ματθαίου Εὐαγγέλιον κηρύξαντα, ὅπερ Ἑβραϊκοῖς γράμμασι γεγραμμένον, εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξανδρείαν ἀναζεύξας, μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ ἐκόμισε. Τούτου πολλὰ ὑπομνήματα εἰς τὰς θείας γραφὰς τυγχάνει, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ζώσῃ φωνῇ τὰς ἐκκλησίας ὠφέλησεν. Ἐδίδαξε ἐπὶ Σεβήρου καὶ Ἀντωνίνου τοῦ ἐπίκλην Καρακάλου.