Pantaenus, The Alexandrian Philosopher

By Pantaenus

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Title:	Pantaenus, The Alexandrian Philosopher
Author:	Pantaenus
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: [A.D. 182í92›12.] The world owes more to Pantaenus than to all the other Stoics put together. His mind discovered that true philosophy is found, not in the Porch, but in Nazareth, in Gethsemane, in Gabbatha, in Golgotha; and he set himself to make it known to the world. We are already acquainted with the great master of Clement,[14] ?the Sicilian bee,? that forsook the flowers of Enna, to enrich Alexandria with what is ?sweeter than honey and the honey?comb;? and we remember that he became a zealous missionary to the Oriental Ethiopia, and found there the traces of St. Matthias? labours, and those also of St. Bartholomew. From this mission he seems to have returned about A.D. 192. Possibly he was master of the Alexandrian school before he went to India, and came back to his chair when that mission was finished. There he sat till about A.D. 212, and under him this Christian academy became famous. It had existed as a catechetical school from the Apostles? time, according to St. Jerome. I have elsewhere noted some reasons for supposing that its founder may have been Apollos.(1) All the learning of Christendom may be traced to this source; and blessed be the name of one of whom all we know is ennobling to the Church, and whose unselfish career was a track of light ?shining more and more unto the perfect day.?

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Table of Contents: PANTAENUS, THE ALEXANDRIAN PHILOSOPHER, 1 -- PANTAENUS, THE ALEXANDRIAN PHILOSOPHER, 1