{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 5,
  "chapterName": "c.303. Eusebius on Pantaenus’ Visit to India",
  "pageFrom": 4,
  "pageTo": 4,
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      "pageNumber": 4,
      "ocrText": "4\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\n5. EUSEBIUS ON PANTAENUS' VISIT TO INDIA\n(c. 303 A.D.)\nEusebius, Book V, Chapter 10. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers\nVol. I, pp. 224-225.\nPantaenus was at that time especially conspicuous, as he had\nbeen educated in the philosophical system of those called Stoics.\nThey say that he displayed such zeal for the divine word, that he\nwas appointed as a herald of the Gospel of Christ to the nations\nin the far East, and was sent as far as India. For indeed there were\nstill many evangelists of the Word who sought earnestly to use their\ninspired zeal, after the examples of the apostles, for the increase\nand building up of the Divine Word. Pantaenus was one of these,\nand is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons\nthere who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according ac to\nMatthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholo-\nmew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with\nthem the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they\nhad preserved till that time.\n6. JEROME ON THE VISIT OF PANTAENUS TO INDIA\n(340-420 A.D.)\nJerome, III, Chapter 36. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Vol. I,\np. 370.\nPantaenus, a philosopher of the Stoic School, according to some\nold Alexandrian custom, where from the time of Mark the evange-\nlist the ecclesiastics were always doctors, was of so great prudence\nand erudition both in scripture and secular literature that, on the\nrequest of the legates of that nation, he was sent to India by Demet-\ntrius bishop of Alexandria, where he found that Bartholomew, one\nof the twelve apostles, had preached the advent of the Lord Jesus\naccording to the Gospel of Matthew, and on his return to Alexandria\nhe brought this with him written in Hebrew characters.\n7. HYMNS OF EPHRAIM (306-373 A.D.)\nEphraim was a famous poet of the Christian Church who spent\nten years at Edessa, where the relics of St. Thomas were said to be\nentombed. His Nisibene Hymns throw light upon the removal of the\nrelics from India to Edessa. Hymn, 42.1,2,3. Nicene and Post-Nicene\nFathers, Vol. XIII, p. 205.\n1.\nThe Apostle whom I slew in India is before me in Edessa:\nhe is here wholly and also there",
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