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  • + Jewish originals recast or freely interpolated by Christians, viz., the "Apocalypses of Elias" (Elijah), "Sophonias" (Zephaniah), the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • On stylistic grounds the anonymously transmitted paraphrases of the Categories, the Prior Analytics, the Sophistici elenchi, and the Parva naturalia edited in CAG 23 and 5 may also be attributed to Sophonias.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • Even though these works are in themselves of limited philosophical interest, it has been shown that Sophonias draws on John Philoponus™ lost commentary on book 3 of the De anima.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • This is also what Sophonias argued at the turn of the

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • The genre of Aristotelian paraphrase, that is, adaptations in which Aristotle's text is rephrased, reorganized, and amplified or pruned, as need be, in order to make it more easily understood, was allegedly invented by Themistius in the mid-4th century, revived by Michael Psellos in the mid-11th century, and further developed by Sophonias and others in the late 13th to early 14th centuries.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • A contemporary of Pachymeres was Sophonias, a Constantinopolitan monk and later Catholic convert, whose hybrid paraphrase of Aristotle's De anima was mentioned in section 1.2.

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, when king Sedecias sent unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias, and Sophonias, the son of

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • So Sophonias the priest read this letter, in the hearing of

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias the prophet, saying: Pray to the Lord our God for us.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Hem, the son of Sophonias, a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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