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https://spear-prosop.org/3129-2
Date: Sometime between 0519 and 0538Event Factoid: John the scholastic wrote a letter to Severus in which he sought answers to questions someone else had asked him. The questions dealt with repentance for refusing to submit to monastic discipline and repentance for self-castration in one's youth.

Sources:

  • Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 397-412, part: VIII.4.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to cite:

Daniel L. Schwartz, https://spear-prosop.org/3129-2, in The Letters of Severus of Antioch: A SPEAR Prosopography, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2025-07-01.

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