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Didymus the Blind (c. 313 – 398) was an Eastern Church theologian of Alexandria whose famous Catechetical School, he led for about half a century. He became blind at a very young age, and therefore ignorant of the rudiments of learning. Yet, he displayed such a miracle of intelligence as to learn perfectlydialectics and even geometry, sciences which especially require sight.

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  • Didymus the Blind (c. 313 – 398) was an Eastern Church theologian of Alexandria whose famous Catechetical School, he led for about half a century. He became blind at a very young age, and therefore ignorant of the rudiments of learning. Yet, he displayed such a miracle of intelligence as to learn perfectlydialectics and even geometry, sciences which especially require sight.
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  • Didymus the Blind (c. 313 – 398) was an Eastern Church theologian of Alexandria whose famous Catechetical School, he led for about half a century. He became blind at a very young age, and therefore ignorant of the rudiments of learning. Yet, he displayed such a miracle of intelligence as to learn perfectlydialectics and even geometry, sciences which especially require sight. Didymus wrote many admirable works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of John as Against the Arians, and On the Holy Spirit, which Jerome translated into Latin. He also wrote on Isaiah, Hosea, Zechariah, Job, and many other topics. (See Jerome and Early Church Fathers, Chapter 109) Didymus’ biblical commentaries (supposedly on nearly all the books of the Bible) survive in fragments only, and those on the Catholic Letters are of dubious authenticity. He is probably the author of a treatise on the Holy Spirit that is extant in Latin translation.
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