Evagrius
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Awghrīs · اوغريس · Evagrius the presbyter · The presbyter Evagrius
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The ascetic author quoted twice: once on the division of intellect and discernment between heart and brain, once on the two legitimate sources of intellectual vision.
“The gazing of intellects, as it ought to be, is either from the pure intellect or from the science of the verifying sages.
“The intellect (*ʻaql*) is in the heart and discernment is in the brain.
« The soul that has been honoured with the grace of God, exalted be He, and has been separated from the body, dwells in the places of the world, unto a station in which there is no hateful pain ».
Letters
A presbyter, son of Pompeianus of Antioch, who traveled to the West and returned demanding further action.
The presbyter Evagrius, son of Pompeianus of Antioch, who once set out with the blessed Eusebius for the West, has now returned from Rome, demanding of us a letter containing word for word the very things written by those of the West (for he brought back to us our own letter, as not having satisfied the more exacting among them there), and that an embassy be at once pressed forward through men of …
Whether, then, one should not shrink from ordinations beyond one's borders, and what answer should be given to the Sebastenes, and how one should be disposed towards the proposals of Evagrius — about all this I needed to be instructed by meeting your Honour in person, of which I have been deprived through my present weakness.
But know, my truly most reverent and much-longed-for brother, that I have, by the grace of God, no private contention with anyone.