Theudas
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 11 anchored passages
the magician · the sorcerer
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
A powerful sorcerer and idolater summoned by the temple priests to help win the king's son back from Christianity through demonic seduction.
" So Theudas, inclining a willing ear to the evil one, and initiated by him into a wicked and ruinous counsel, becoming a tongue and mouth for him, said to the king:
But Theudas, again seizing upon that wicked cave of his, and poring over the books that have power to work such things, and summoning one of the wicked spirits, sent it out to do battle against the soldier of Christ's battle-line;
For he made countless efforts to bring to effect the things commanded him by Theudas.