- Philip of Side
Philip of Side or Philip Sidetes ("ca" 380 - after 431), a historian of the early Christian church, was born at
Side , the ancient Greek Iconium,Pamphylia (the modernKonya , Turkey). He wrote a Christian history of which fragments survive. For some detail he relied upon the well-known "Historia Ecclesiae" byEusebius of Caesarea .Philip may be the last writer to quote
Papias , and is best known for his statement that in the second book of the latter's five book treatise, Papias reported that the Apostle John was "killed by the Jews".He studied in
Alexandria under Rhodon, and was teaching in Side about 405. Later he was a priest in Constantinople in the close circle ofJohn 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 byCyril of Alexandria for avoiding the company ofNestorius , 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 links
* [http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/ii.xxxviii.htm Schaff "Encyclopedia"]
* [http://www.textexcavation.com/papias.html#fragment5 Fragment about Papias] -- from the remains of the "Church History" preserved in the Bodleian Codex Barrocianus 142.
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