PANTAENUS
, See also:head of the catechetical school at See also:Alexandria, C
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A.D
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180-200, knowlt chiefly as having been the See also:master of See also:Clement, who succeeded him, and of See also:Alexander, See also:bishop of See also:Jerusalem
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Clement speaks of him as the " Sicilian See also:bee," but of his See also:birth and See also:death nothing is known
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See also:Eusebius and See also:Jerome speak of him as having been, originally at least, a Stoic, and as having been sent, on See also:account of his zeal and learning, as a missionary to " See also:India." There is some See also:reason to think that this means the See also:Malabar See also:coast
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There was a considerable intercourse between See also:south India and the See also:east Mediterranean at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and See also:Christian thought possibly did something to See also:mould the See also:great See also:system of Tamil See also:philosophy known as the Saiva Siddhanta
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Pantaenus " expounded the treasures of divine See also:doctrine both orally and in See also:writing," but only a few brief reminiscences of his teaching are extant (see See also:Routh, Rel. See also:sac. i
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375-383)
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See also:Lightfoot suggests that the conclusion of the well-known See also:Epistle to See also:Diognetus, chs
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11, 12, may be the See also:work of Pantaenus
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Clement thought highly of his abilities, and See also:Origen appeals to his authority in connexion with the inclusion of philosophy in the theological course
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