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The Great Cloud of Witnesses · The Long Middle

Photios I of Constantinople

?–893

Patristic / Eastern voice, d. ~893

The life

Photios I of Constantinople (d. ~893). Patristic / Eastern voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full profile pending.

In their own words

  • “The statement that "he entered into the heaven itself" must be taken by common agreement as this: "And so that he might not offer himself often, he entered into the very heaven." For it is characteristic of those entering the "antitypes of the true things" …”

    FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 9.24-25 · on the verse

  • “"And the powers of the age to come," which is to say, "having learned what things the coming age is capable of." For "having tasted" means "having learned" or "having been instructed," as it commonly means, being taken in a figurative manner. But what can …”

    FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 6.5 · on the verse