Section 24—Didumus Alexandrinus. A.D. 370
Section 24—Didumus Alexandrinus. A.D. 370
Didymus of Alexandria was blind from his childhood, so that he never learned letters, and yet was a perfect master of logic and geometry; he was living in the fourteenth year of Theodosus, A.D. 329, being then above eighty-three years of age;[1173] he was the author of many things, and among the rest of a treatise concerning the Holy Spirit, translated into Latin by Jerom; in which he says indeed,[1174] that Christ tasted death for all; and that[1175] he vouchsafed to come down on earth for the salvation of all; but then he explains these all of the children of God and believers in Christ; for citing Isaiah 63:8, which he thus renders, " He is made salvation to them, that is," says he,[1176] "to them, of whom the, Lord says Are not my people children? And they will not prevaricate; for because they do not prevaricate, nor have despised the Father, he is made salvation to them; or because they are called children, he is made the cause of salvation to them." And a little after, "He is made the occasion of eternal salvation, cunctis qui in eum credunt, 'to all that believe in him;' and he is the Savior of the world, who came to seek what was lost."