Date: Sometime between 0519 and 0538Event Factoid: Severus wrote a letter to
John of Bostra
in which he discussed sacrifices and circumcision and argued that Christ
abolished the letter of the law while the spirit of the law remains.
Sources:
E. W. Brooks and E. W. Brooks, eds.,Letters LXII to CXVII,inA Collection of Letters of Severus of Antioch , from Numerous Syriac Manuscripts, Patrologia Orientalis 14 (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1919), p: 132-38, part: 83.