Ambrose the deacon.

Chapter LVI.

Ambrosius, ²⁴⁶⁶ at first a Marcionite but afterwards set right by Origen, was deacon in the church, and gloriously distinguished as confessor of the Lord. To him, together with Protoctetus the presbyter, the book of Origen, On martyrdom was written. Aided ²⁴⁶⁷ by his industry, funds, and perseverance, Origen dictated a great number of volumes. He himself, as befits a man of noble nature, was of no mean literary talent, as his letters to Origen indicate. He died moreover, before the death of Origen, and is condemned by many, in that being a man of wealth, he did not at death, remember in his will, his old and needy friend.

Footnotes

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Died about 250.

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aideda T e Val. Her.; “and to him” A H 25 30; “and to this time” a 31.