Zacharias
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Zacharias the priest
in the texts
Protrepticus
Father of John the Baptist whose silence signified the coming of Christ.
and this was what the silence of Zacharias signified, awaiting the forerunning fruit of Christ, that the light of truth, the Word, might loose the mystic silence of the prophetic riddles, becoming good tidings.
De idolatria
Father of John the Baptist, struck mute, who wrote his son's name.
Indeed Zacharias, punished by a temporary deprivation of voice, conferring with his mind, passes over his idle tongue;
De Monogamia
Priest and father of John the Baptist, exemplifying monogamy
monogamy and continence—the one chaste, in Zacharias the priest;