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Ulfilas

noun
1.
A Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382).  Synonyms: Bishop Ulfila, Bishop Ulfilas, Bishop Wulfila, Ulfila, Wulfila.






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"Ulfilas" Quotes from Famous Books



... chastity, his temperance, his friendship, his magnanimity, as well as his zeal in extinguishing heresy. But for him, Arianism might possibly have been the established religion of the Empire, since not only the dialectical Greeks, but the sensuous Goths, inclined to that creed. Ulfilas, in his conversion of those barbarians, had made them the supporters of Arianism, not because they understood the subtile distinctions which theologians had made, but because it was the accepted and fashionable faith of Constantinople. Spain, however, through the commanding influence of Hosius, ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV • John Lord



Words linked to "Ulfilas" :   Bishop Ulfila, translator, Bishop Ulfilas, Bishop Wulfila, interpreter, Ulfila, bishop



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