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See also:THEOPHYLACT (d. c.. 1110) , biblical commentator, was See also:born most probably at Euripus, in See also:Euboea, about the See also:middle of the 11th See also:century . He became a See also:deacon at See also:Constantinople, attained a high reputation as a See also:scholar, and became the See also:tutor of See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus, son of the See also:Emperor See also:Michael VII., for whom he wrote The See also:Education of Princes (IIaiSeia (3aoaXucil) . About 1078 he went into See also:Bulgaria as See also:archbishop of Achrida . In his letters he complains much of the See also:rude See also:manners of the Bulgarians, and he sought to be relieved of his See also:office, but apparently without success . His See also:death took See also:place after 1107 . His commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, the Pauline epistles and the See also:Minor Prophets are founded on those of See also:Chrysostom, but deserve the considerable place they hold in exegetical literature for their appositeness, sobriety, accuracy and judiciousness . His other extant See also:works include 130 letters and various homilies and orations and other minor pieces . A careful edition of nearly all his writings, in See also:Greek and Latin, with a preliminary dissertation, was published in 1754–63 by J . F . B . M. de See also:Rossi (4 vols. fol., See also:Venice) . See See also:Krumbacher, Byzantinische Litteraturgeschichte (2nd ed . 1897), pp . 132, 463 . |
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