{"pages":{"4":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00028-df7de2447df688af87f1.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"4","box":{"x":98,"y":134,"width":28,"height":18}},{"text":"HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA","box":{"x":322,"y":141,"width":470,"height":20}},{"text":"5. EUSEBIUS ON PANTAENUS' VISIT TO INDIA","box":{"x":202,"y":209,"width":740,"height":25}},{"text":"(c. 303 A.D.)","box":{"x":469,"y":237,"width":179,"height":29}},{"text":"Eusebius, Book V, Chapter 10. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers","box":{"x":188,"y":288,"width":771,"height":27}},{"text":"Vol. I, pp. 224-225.","box":{"x":153,"y":314,"width":242,"height":22}},{"text":"Pantaenus was at that time especially conspicuous, as he had","box":{"x":201,"y":357,"width":803,"height":32}},{"text":"been educated in the philosophical system of those called Stoics.","box":{"x":101,"y":383,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"They say that he displayed such zeal for the divine word, that he","box":{"x":99,"y":410,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"was appointed as a herald of the Gospel of Christ to the nations","box":{"x":101,"y":438,"width":904,"height":32}},{"text":"in the far East, and was sent as far as India. For indeed there were","box":{"x":104,"y":467,"width":901,"height":31}},{"text":"still many evangelists of the Word who sought earnestly to use their","box":{"x":102,"y":493,"width":903,"height":36}},{"text":"inspired zeal, after the examples of the apostles, for the increase","box":{"x":103,"y":523,"width":901,"height":38}},{"text":"and building up of the Divine Word. Pantaenus was one of these,","box":{"x":102,"y":551,"width":900,"height":35}},{"text":"and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons","box":{"x":102,"y":580,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according ac to","box":{"x":102,"y":605,"width":904,"height":41}},{"text":"Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholo-","box":{"x":101,"y":636,"width":903,"height":31}},{"text":"mew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with","box":{"x":102,"y":663,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they","box":{"x":102,"y":689,"width":900,"height":38}},{"text":"had preserved till that time.","box":{"x":98,"y":716,"width":376,"height":31}},{"text":"6. JEROME ON THE VISIT OF PANTAENUS TO INDIA","box":{"x":95,"y":802,"width":905,"height":28}},{"text":"(340-420 A.D.)","box":{"x":449,"y":833,"width":204,"height":32}},{"text":"Jerome, III, Chapter 36. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Vol. I,","box":{"x":186,"y":885,"width":766,"height":27}},{"text":"p. 370.","box":{"x":144,"y":910,"width":87,"height":21}},{"text":"Pantaenus, a philosopher of the Stoic School, according to some","box":{"x":138,"y":957,"width":864,"height":32}},{"text":"old Alexandrian custom, where from the time of Mark the evange-","box":{"x":94,"y":984,"width":908,"height":36}},{"text":"list the ecclesiastics were always doctors, was of so great prudence","box":{"x":95,"y":1011,"width":905,"height":36}},{"text":"and erudition both in scripture and secular literature that, on the","box":{"x":94,"y":1040,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"request of the legates of that nation, he was sent to India by Demet-","box":{"x":95,"y":1069,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"trius bishop of Alexandria, where he found that Bartholomew, one","box":{"x":94,"y":1095,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"of the twelve apostles, had preached the advent of the Lord Jesus","box":{"x":94,"y":1123,"width":905,"height":32}},{"text":"according to the Gospel of Matthew, and on his return to Alexandria","box":{"x":92,"y":1151,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"he brought this with him written in Hebrew characters.","box":{"x":92,"y":1178,"width":736,"height":31}},{"text":"7. HYMNS OF EPHRAIM (306-373 A.D.)","box":{"x":235,"y":1267,"width":626,"height":29}},{"text":"Ephraim was a famous poet of the Christian Church who spent","box":{"x":182,"y":1317,"width":768,"height":29}},{"text":"ten years at Edessa, where the relics of St. Thomas were said to be","box":{"x":144,"y":1344,"width":808,"height":24}},{"text":"entombed. His Nisibene Hymns throw light upon the removal of the","box":{"x":141,"y":1368,"width":809,"height":28}},{"text":"relics from India to Edessa. Hymn, 42.1,2,3. Nicene and Post-Nicene","box":{"x":144,"y":1392,"width":806,"height":29}},{"text":"Fathers, Vol. XIII, p. 205.","box":{"x":146,"y":1418,"width":319,"height":25}},{"text":"1.","box":{"x":92,"y":1473,"width":34,"height":22}},{"text":"The Apostle whom I slew in India is before me in Edessa:","box":{"x":204,"y":1469,"width":794,"height":32}},{"text":"he is here wholly and also there","box":{"x":92,"y":1495,"width":431,"height":31}}]}}}