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Headword:
*ma/nhs
Adler number: mu,149
Translated headword: Manes, Mani
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a Persian, who, having fled from the kingdom of the Persians in the reign of Constantine the Great,[1] threw into confusion the doctrines of the Christians.
It is declined Manentos.[2]
Greek Original:*ma/nhs: o)/noma *persou=, o(\s a)podra\s e)k th=s tw=n *persw=n basilei/as e)pi\ tou= mega/lou *kwnstanti/nou ta\ *xristianw=n e)ta/ratte do/gmata. kli/netai *ma/nentos.
Notes:
See also
mu 147,
kappa 2174 (with bibliography). The founder of the Manichaean religion lived from 216 to 276 CE, and his life and doctrine are better understood from recent discoveries.
[1] Impossible. Alexander of Lycopolis says, more plausibly, that he "was" (
gegone/nai) in the time of Valerian (253-60;
Tractatus de placitis Manichaeorum 2.11). On this and in general see OCD(4) p.892, under "Manichaeism". See also Catholic Encyclopedia (web address 1).
[2] For the declension of the name as if it were
maneis (the aorist passive participle of
mainomai 'rave, be mad'), see Titus of
Bostra,
Adversus Manichaeos 1;
Philoxenus,
Ep. 35 (A. Mai,
Nova Bibliotheca Patrum, v. 8.3, Rome 1871, p. 183); John of Damascus,
Against the Manichaeans 1.67;
Eusebius,
Eccl. Hist. 7.31.1ff.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; religion
Translated by: Byard Bennett on 7 November 2000@17:04:57.
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