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Didymus the Blind (alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous)〔(Judy Duchan. Dedimus (Didymus) 313-398 AD )〕 (c. 313 – 398) was a Christian theologian in the Coptic Church of Alexandria, whose famous Catechetical School he led for about half a century. Despite his impaired vision, his memory was so powerful that he mastered dialectics and geometry, subjects whose study usually benefits appreciably from sight. Didymus wrote many works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the ''Gospel of Matthew'', the ''Gospel of John'' as ''Against the Arians'', and ''On the Holy Spirit'', which Jerome translated into Latin. He also wrote on Isaiah, Hosea, Zechariah, Job, and many other topics. Didymus’ biblical commentaries, which supposedly addressed nearly all the books of the Bible, survive in fragments only. His ''Catholic Letters'' are of dubious authenticity. He is probably the author of a treatise on the Holy Spirit that is extant in Latin translation. He was a loyal follower of Origen, and opposed Arian and Macedonian teachings.〔Didymus the Blind. OrthodoxWiki. (Didymus the Blind )〕 Such of his writings as survive show a remarkable knowledge of scripture, and have distinct value as theological literature. ==Early life== Although he became blind at the age of four,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Catholic Encyclopedia )〕 before he had learned to read, he succeeded in mastering the whole gamut of the sciences then known.〔 Despite his blindness, Didymus excelled in scholarship because of his incredible memory. He found ways to help blind people to read, and experimented with carved wooden letters, akin to Braille systems used by the blind today.〔John Lascaratos and Spyros Marketos. Didymus the Blind: An unknown precursor of Louis Braille and Helen Keller. Documenta ophthalmologica 86: 203-208, 1994 PMID 7995235〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Didymus the Blind」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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