Abstract:In centenary commemoration of what happened on 21 February 1910 This study proposes to show that John Philoponus' sixth-century philosophical commentary and biblical exegesis, especially his hexaemeral work De opificio mundi, was deeply connected with and reflective of the eucharist as it was thought about and enacted in the Egypt of his era, the time of the separation of the Miaphysite church. Creation, the De opificio 's subject, always is described in the eucharistic liturgies Philoponus and his Christian s… Show more
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