Macarius Magnes
Also: Macarius of Magnesia
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
The unknown author of one book that answers a pagan critic of the New Testament; he may be the Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, of 403.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 403Magnesia (now western Turkey; which Magnesia is not known)bishopyears not sure, place not sure
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- ApocriticusA staged debate in which a Christian answers, one by one, a pagan's attacks on the Gospels and Paul; the attacks may come from Porphyry.50,282 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarius_Magnes: nothing is known of his life
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarius_Magnes: not known
- Died not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarius_Magnes: not known
- Place of death not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarius_Magnes: not known
- Magnesia, years not sure
- Photius, Bibliotheca 59: a Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, accused Heraclides of Ephesus at the Synod of the Oak in 403; that he is the author is not sure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarius_Magnes)
- Magnesia, place not sure
- T. W. Crafer, The Apocriticus of Macarius Magnes (1919), introduction