Philip of Side
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Philip of Side (ca 380 - after 431), a historian of the early Christian church, was born at Side, the ancient Greek Iconium, Pamphylia (the modern Konya, Turkey). He wrote a Christian history of which fragments survive. For some detail he relied upon the well-known Historia Ecclesiae by Eusebius of Caesarea.
Philip may be the last writer to quote Papias, but it is doubtful that he actually saw Papias' five book treatise interpreting the logia ("sayings") of Jesus. It is most likely that his source was really Eusebius' disparaging quotes. No further details not in Eusebius appear in Philip of Side.
He studied in Alexandria under Rhodon, was teaching in Side about 405. Later he was a priest in Constantinople in the close circle of John Chrysostom, and he was a candidate for the patriarchate of Constantinople against Sisinnius (425), Nestorius (428), and Maximianus (431). He seems to have been the same Byzantine presbyter Philip, who was commended by Cyril of Alexandria for avoiding the company of Nestorius, whom Cyril was hounding as heretical.
Of his numerous books only fragments remain, his history of the Christian church, his polemic against the Emperor Julian.
External link
- Schaff Encyclopedia (http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/ii.xxxviii.htm)de:Philip von Side