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See also:PHILOXENUS (See also:Syriac, Aksenaya)
, of Mabbog, one of the best of See also:Syriac See also:prose writers, and a vehement See also:champion of Monophysite See also:doctrine in the end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th centuries
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He was See also:born, probably in the third See also:quarter of the 5th See also:century, at Talial, a See also:village in the See also:district of Beth Garmai See also:east of the See also:Tigris
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He was thus by See also:birth a subject of See also:Persia, but all his active See also:life of which we have any See also:record was passed in the territory of the See also:Greek See also:Empire
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The statements that he had been a slave and was never baptized appear to be malicious inventions of his theological opponents
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He was educated at See also:Edessa, perhaps in the famous " school of the Persians," which was after-wards (in 489) expelled from Edessa2 on See also:account of its connexion with the Nestorian See also:heresy
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The years which followed the See also:Council of See also:Chalcedon (451) were a stormy See also:period in the Syrian See also:
See also:Hierapolis of the Greeks, Manbij of the See also:Arabs, a few See also:miles See also:west I of the See also:Euphrates about See also:latitude 361°
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may be specially mentioned
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Writers on the See also:history of See also:philosophy generally prefix to their See also:work a discussion of the See also:scope of philosophy, Its divisions and its relations to other departments of knowledge, and the account given by Windelband and See also:Ueberweg will be found specially See also:good
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The Introductions to Philosophy published by F
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See also:Paulsen, 0
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Kiilpe, W
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See also:Wundt and G
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T
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See also:Ladd, See also:deal largely with this subject, which is also treated by See also: (A . S . |
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