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[NABOKOV-L] Double Monster: Didymus ( Greek: "twin") and
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Thomas Didymus was one of the twelve disciples. It has been conjectured that Thomas was the twin brother of Matthew, and was originally called Jude; and that Jude was the son of James the Less, and therefore grandson of Alpheus. Some legends make Thomas the twin of James. Thomas whose other name is Didymus, in Greek "the twin".
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Didymus the Blind (ca. 313 - ca.398) was an ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria whose famous catechetical school he led for about half a century.
Didymus was linked with and condemned with Origen. However, the doctrine of Origen and Didymus that was found to be the most "heretical" was not universalism, but the belief in the "Abominable doctrine of the transmigration of souls.Despite his blindness, Didymus excelled in scholarship because of his incredible memory. He found ways to help blind people to read, and experimented with carved wooden letters, a precursor to Braille systems used by the blind today.Several Orthodox Churches refer to him as St. Didymus the Blind.[4][5]
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Thomas Didymus was one of the twelve disciples. It has been conjectured that Thomas was the twin brother of Matthew, and was originally called Jude; and that Jude was the son of James the Less, and therefore grandson of Alpheus. Some legends make Thomas the twin of James. Thomas whose other name is Didymus, in Greek "the twin".
another entry:
Didymus the Blind (ca. 313 - ca.398) was an ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria whose famous catechetical school he led for about half a century.
Didymus was linked with and condemned with Origen. However, the doctrine of Origen and Didymus that was found to be the most "heretical" was not universalism, but the belief in the "Abominable doctrine of the transmigration of souls.Despite his blindness, Didymus excelled in scholarship because of his incredible memory. He found ways to help blind people to read, and experimented with carved wooden letters, a precursor to Braille systems used by the blind today.Several Orthodox Churches refer to him as St. Didymus the Blind.[4][5]
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