Tatian
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Christian apologist Tatian, cited as an authority on the antiquity of Hebrew wisdom and on Greek chronology.
These matters have been treated exactly by Tatian in his Against the Greeks, and also by Cassian in the first book of his Exegetica;
Younger than these by forty generations are the Attic matters, those from Cecrops, the two-natured and earth-born, as Tatian says word for word;
"—laying down doctrines like Tatian's in this.
The Rights of War and Peace
Early Christian author in whose work a Christian's refusal of the office of Praetor is recorded.
A Christian in Tatian said, “I refuse the office of Praetor,” and in the words of Tertullian, “a Christian is not ambitious of the Aedile’s office.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
A heretical teacher named alongside Marcion as an example of extreme abstinence teaching.
He reprobates also those who command to abstain from foods—but out of the providence of the Holy Spirit, condemning beforehand the heretics who would enjoin a perpetual abstinence to destroy and despise the works of the Creator: